If you thought this emoji nonsense was going away any time soon, I have bad news. We’re getting many more emoji later this year. The Unicode Consortium, which controls such things — basically, they’re like the Five Families in The Godfather, only with less bloodshed and more JavaScript — has approved 74 emoji for release later in 2016.
Among the new icons are Drooling Face, Bat, Shrug, Shark, Duck, and Bacon. Okay, Bacon I get. But Selfie Arm? That’s a thing? It’s bad enough we see it in real life; now we have to see it in texts? The new emoji will most likely be available on the iPhone in September when Apple releases iOS 10.