Why is There No Pie Emoji?

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Why is There No Pie Emoji?

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Apr 27, 2023

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We ask—and then we try to change emoji history. Learn how an emoji gets made as we submit our pie emoji proposal to Unicode.

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Apr 27, 2023

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Why is There No Pie Emoji?

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