The unicode standard is over 3000 pages and supports a penguin #emoji but not a wildebeest. #RMS probably does not like that one bit.

Seriously, how can the #GNU mascot be missing from the #unicode amid all the junk that is in there?

@bojkotiMalbona
Water buffalo 🐃 isn’t good enough?

If there was a popularly agreed-on icon for #OpenSource that might be a good candidate for an #emoji

But I see four different designs for that on a quick search

You need one that people will get behind, recognize, and be excited enough about to use at a sometimes underwhelming 16 px

#Unicode are apparently moving away from the cute disembodied heads of animals like 🐧 🐦 and 🫎

Nobody has proposed wildebeest:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html

Emoji Proposals Status

@bojkotiMalbona
They really don’t like and specifically forbid branding #emoji

So saying you want one for one particular open source project would probably technically doom it to failure

One guess for why they didn’t accept our #PhonographEmoji is that it was too close to the icon of the Grammy awards

@AccordionBruce I should also address this, for accuracy:

> So saying you want one for one particular open source project

GNU is not a /particular/ open source project. It represents a philosophy that encompasses a very huge collection of projects, which would ensure the wildebeest has quite heavy widespread use. By comparison, the penguin just represents the linux kernel, a single project that is a drop in the ocean compared to #GNU.

@bojkotiMalbona
Me learning

Her we could insert a 🐃 if we choose to make that the #GNU emoji and you can claim credit without having to write the proposal!

@AccordionBruce Indeed hi-jacking an existing sufficiently close enough emoji is good enough for me.

I’ll leave it to someone else to request a wildebeest on the basis that the water buffalo has been abused / repurposed due to a deficiency of choices.

@bojkotiMalbona
They’re very supportive of hijacking existing #emoji

Saves them work

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/how-to-write-the-worst-emoji-proposal

How to Write the Worst Emoji Proposal Ever

A masterclass in getting my emoji rejected

Did Someone Say Emoji?