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5 things you can now explain with the new emojis

"The wouldn't let me take my emotional support peacock on the plane"

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization responsible for setting the global standard for emoji, has announced a new set of characters. There are 157 new pictorial representations that we all desperately needed to express ourselves, like a kangaroo and a pilot flag. The emojis now also include a full set of characters for redheads and a set of characters for people with no hair at all. The characters are expected to be available for use as of June.

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You can see the full list here, and watch our video below explaining some of the things you can now express emojionally.