The latest batch of proposed emoji are very specific and very strange–exactly what an emerging language deserves. “Mom, where do emojis come from?” “Well, son, let me tell you the story of the birds and the bees—by which I mean the Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium .” Yes, that’s how those little pictograms on your phone get born.

Source: Emoji Are Getting Weirder. That’s A Good Thing