This Group Wants an Emoji Revolution (Starting With the Dumpling)

In the ever-irresolute world of emojis, there'south one affair missing: the dumpling. But that could soon change.

A Kickstarter entrada that promises to create a dumpling emoji has topped its goal of $3,750 to enhance about $12,000 from more than 270 backers.

"In that location is a pizza emoji, a hamburger emoji, and a taco emoji. There are besides a range of semi-obscure Japanese foods including fish cake with swirl design, rice ball, and dango," the creators, known every bit Emojination, wrote on their Kickstarter page. "But there is no usable dumpling emoji in the standard set. In that location's a fourth dimension to change that and that fourth dimension is now."

But more than than a push for the dumpling emoji, the Kickstarter campaign is too a bid to crack the shadowy emoji grouping known as the Unicode Consortium.

Emoji enthusiasts will know that the consortium is the artiber of new emojis. Information technology was they who found it in their hearts to bless us withnerd face, hot dog, popcorn, volleyball, unicorn face up, crab, and prayer beads emojis. That might seem silly, but the group exists so that emoji work beyond mobile operating systems. You don't desire to send your friend a taco emoji from your iPhone and have them receive a white box with a question mark on their Android [sad face].

Emojination, however, points out that "the committee which oversees emoji are mostly male, mostly American, and overwhelmingly engineers.And it takes anywhere from 18 months to two years for a single emoji to move through the approving procedure, as it besides needs to receive buy-in from ISO (yet another international standards body)."

Emojis will wait for no i, though. Just ask Kim Kardashian. Then Emojination wants to "give voice to regular folks on issues of emoji." That requires coin, though. Becoming a full voting member of the Unicode Consortium costs $18,000 a year; condign anofficial not-voting associate fellow member is $2,500.

"Once we enhance [$4,000], we could maybe choose annual membership with gives u.s.a. half a vote on the technical committee that oversees emoji (which costs $7,500 for not-profits). The more than money we heighten for Emojination, the more than years of membership we tin can secure for the future," they said.

"This isn't just about dumplings. We desire to bring giraffes, theNazar, and other in-need emoji into the world in a diverse, inclusive way."

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.