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Thursday, 1 March 2018

There's currently no interracial couple emoji. Tinder wants to change that.

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Emoji have evolved faster than any other language in history. But, one thing that's lagged behind is the ability to represent everyone. 

One community that's still not represented at all by these tiny glyphs is interracial couples, and Tinder wants to do something about that. 

The dating app has created a Change.org petition urging the Unicode Consortium — the organization in charge of our emoji — to create an emoji that represents interracial couples. 

"There's an emoji for everything. Well, almost everything," declares Tinder in a video to accompany its #representlove emoji campaign. "Isn't it time emoji represented all love?"  Read more...

More about Emoji, Petition, Unicode, Interracial Couple, and Culture

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