I actually went into this post fully expecting to make the same snarky comment, but upon actually reading the article, they added 554 characters and 4 new scrip

I actually went into this post fully expecting to make the same snarky comment, but upon actually reading the article, they added 554 characters and 4 new scripts, along with stuff like Egyptian hieroglyph formatting support, vs. 61 emojis. Which made the idea of snarking about how they only cared about emojis look rather silly. Anyway, since you asked, the fringe diversity group getting the new custom emojis is disabled people (mainly hearing-impaired, vision-impaired, and wheelchair users). So, y'know, on the order of 10% of the population. Very fringe.