More inclusive emoji have been slow to appear over the last decade.

“I hope the work I'm doing…is helping us to be able to see that we're all more similar than we are different.” 'We separate people into different 'kinds' of people, but the kind thing to do is to see everyone as our kin,” he said at the time. Unicode designer Paul Hunt told Mashable earlier this year that the organization was aware that users are alienated by emoji that don’t allow them to fully express themselves.