David Ho

Our emojis show our bias with respect to the natural world.

https://wapo.st/4dBStRI

Your phone is missing a lot of plant and animal emojis. We made a few.

Many of Earth’s plants, animals and organisms aren’t in your phone’s emoji library. We’ve created 8 emojis to help compensate.

The Washington Post
Aug 26, 2024 at 9:17amWeb
Show threadBrynawelAug 26, 2024

@davidho

But there are still not enough cat emojis.

Show threaddarylAug 26, 2024
@davidho 🤸‍♂️
Show threadSarah ArnoldAug 26, 2024
@davidho Even within the animals, it's pretty mammal-skewed. Disproportionately few insects, other invertebrates, and even fish, but plenty of mammals!
Show threadBlort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️Aug 26, 2024
@davidho Actually, animals should be much, much higher than 126 when you include human animal emoji's, especially with all of the skin tone variations.