Is there a more fundamental human question than ‘why isn’t this an emoji?’

by Shivendra Singh · May 11, 2017

Every year, the emoji catalog grows a little bigger, but some users still wind up at a loss when they’re trying to express themselves with certain symbols. Naturally, they’ve turned to Twitter (where else?) to voice their woes.

The accounts Emoji Questions and Why No Emoji retweet users asking variations on the same question: why is there no emoji for disco balls? Or giraffes? Or chicken nuggets? These feeds read like an internet-wide wish list, with users bemoaning all the ways they can’t fully communicate. How am I supposed to let my friend know I’m knuckles-deep in a nacho binge if all I have is a basic hand emoji? This is a real problem I’ve had.