Emoji — to infinity … and beyond‽

“To read Uni­code’s own as­sess­ment, it sounds very much like the con­sor­tium would prefer to re­move it­self from the role of emoji ar­biter by al­low­ing any­one to send any char­ac­ters they like, not only the emoji in the Uni­code stand­ard, as im­ages em­bed­ded in their text.”