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Emojis: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The bad outweighs the good

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Emojis: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

If you're an iPhone user, then you know about the newest software update Apple has to offer. If you don't, then get excited. There are now over 100 new emojis that iPhone users are being blessed with. While Apple has praised our pleas with a few of our emoji desires (such as the middle finger emoji), there are some that are questionable.

I am personally very excited about the middle finger emoji, only because using the cactus emoji in its place gets a little boring. Now we don't have to use our imagination when it comes to flipping off some of your best friends.

A few of my other favorites include the taco, the nerd smiley face (just because it's so cute), the fleur-de-lis (because Kappa), the upside down smiley face, and the money smiley face. These are the only new emojis I have used since the update came out on Wednesday.

The rest of them are kind of pointless. Why do we need a second key emoji? Or a fog emoji? Or even a robot? OR A HOLE??

The new emojis included new sports options, which was much needed, but I'm pretty sure we don't need another mailbox emoji. They added so many more animals too, like a lion, unicorn, squirrel, dove, and crab, but still no owl?? The owl is what us Kappas have all been waiting for. So I'm just thankful they decided to add the fluer-de-lis at least.

Either way, some of these new emojis may be a tad bit useless, but Apple did grant our wishes by giving us updated ones along with a few we asked for. I would love to think that I could use the businessman levitating emoji every day, but sadly I cannot. So maybe let's stick to useful things next time, Apple, instead of just crowding my emoji keyboard with things I don't use ever.

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