There's, to me, a vague hint of on idea here that entities like the Unicode Consortium have too limited a mission statement. This issue suggests something like

There's, to me, a vague hint of on idea here that entities like the Unicode Consortium have too limited a mission statement. This issue suggests something like the need for a broader registry of reactions/mini-memes/reply-icons, which is user-generated iconography/submitted memes (often screencapped out of various media), with a second layer of user-defined explanations/definitions. Unicode is limited by a need to be well defined. It is a conservative not expansive mission. A better more real more useful alternative would not so heavily gate the things entered into it, would allow cultural references. And just as importantly, it wouldnt necessarily be the arbiter of truth/meaning either; secondary systems would be in place to allow a more crowd-sourced interpretation of the symbols that show up in the registry-of-symbols. Also, if anyone can explain the :totoro: emoji a previous even-older-than-I coworker used for most everything, I'd deeply appreciate it.