'Tiny penis' and 'period blood' emojis set to hit smartphones and the internet is going crazy
Emojis have been a part of pop culture since they landed on our cells phones in 2014 and in the last few years that have passed since then, there have been significant updates. Most recently, Unicode announced the 2019 Emoji List and the update to our keyboards include 230 new texting symbols.
Included in the new list is an emoji of pinching fingers, which is a gesture that Twitter users say represents a small penis, and a bright red drop of blood, which netizens are now going to use to represent the menstrual cycle.
Unicode Consortium, the group that helps make the open standards which allow people to use computers across the globe, announced on February 5 that the new emoji group will be available on phones later this year. According to Emojipedia, the updates will start happening in April and will continue till the end of the year.