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Only 31 new emojis will be introduced this year as approvals slow to a trickle

The new additions include a moose, a blackbird, a goose and a jellyfish. You will soon have a pink heart and a "shook face" at your fingertips, too.
These emojis will have to make room for the new additions coming later this year.

In a new feat for humanity and art, it seems that we have finally reached peak emoji.

After countless rounds of new additions that included flora and fauna, as well as the valiant cowboy emoji, the amount of new symbols that will be added this

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