You know emojis, those funny little symbols you innocently share with your friends every day? They actually hide a whole conspiracy!
The secretive way our emoji are reviewed and selected by the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit group set up to standardize symbols online (in other words, your Illuminati standard), is antithetical to every democratic value our founding mothers and fathers fought for.
It's the iron fist of Unicode that has kept the "hang 10" emojis away from you for so long. There should be no more committee deciding which emojis are used and people should be able to decide for themselves. It would be better if each of us could choose any symbol we want.
In a small but significant development, EmojiRequest has created a compromise. Now the public can vote on the gold bars emoji and slowly but surely flock to the gates of Unicode and claim what is rightfully theirs. EmojiRequest, by its own admission, revealed that it has no connection to Unicode, but apparently plans to “create well-formed Emoji suggestions for the most popular of the Emojis.”
Submitting a new application to Unicode is a laborious process that can take more than a year to complete. EmojiRequest won't let you skip the process, but it could help fulfill one of Unicode's most important selection factors for new emoji - how often it's been requested.
So the right to free choice by people will return, one emoji at a time.
