New emojis are crowdsourced and carefully selected.

New emojis are crowdsourced and carefully selected. The Unicode language has grown to 2,623 characters, with 157 more on the way—adding characters at a rate 35 times that of The Oxford English Dictionary. An emoji is only added when the company is given a convincing proposal for why people will and should use the new character (and even then, the final productcan rile up the public). For instance, bagels were added to help represent Jewish people, a mosquito promoted an easier way to discuss diseases carried by the insect, and blue ballet flats gave woman a non-heeled option for feminine footwear. (Wired)