Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months, you would know that the Coronavirus pandemic has been drastically changing the way we live our lives. As of right now, you are not allowed to leave your homes unless you are an essential worker or need to run some essential errands. Not to mention, sports have been completely put on hold as professional sports leagues have decided to suspend their seasons and with good reason.

Numerous events and concerts have been canceled and now, we won’t be getting new emojis in 2021. Yes, that’s right folks, Unicode Consortium, the company that is in charge of emojis, has to delay all of its schedules by six months which means we won’t be getting any new emojis next year. Don’t fear though, the emojis planned for 2021 will be coming out in 2022.

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As for the emojis planned for 2020, those are still on target to come out so if you were fearful of those ones, you can go to bed knowing everything is going to be okay. In fact, there will be 177 new emojis to play around with which is pretty significant.

In the grand scheme of things, this is a blip on the radar but you would be surprised how many people out there live and die by the almighty emoji.

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This is not a joke. There’s a bill being introduced in the Vermont House of Representatives that would allow drivers to add emojis to their license plates.

Introduced by Democrat Rebecca White, the bill doesn’t specify which emojis will be allowed, as there’s nearly 3,000 to chose from, but it does state that the license plate would have to be a combination of numbers and emojis. A person couldn’t have just all emojis on their license plate.

The bill specifies that any emoji would be “in addition to the 10 distinctive number assigned by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or the numerals and letters selected by the registered owner of a vehicle as a vanity plate.” It also suggests that people could choose from 6 different emojis the state would eventually agree on, but it’s unknown what those would be.

Despite their trendsetting ways, Vermont wouldn’t be the first place in the world to allow the emojis on license plates however. Drivers in Queensland, Australia, can add any of five different emoji to their plates. Personalized Plates Queensland’s websites says “With five different emoji characters available, emoji plates allow you to add a little bit more of your personality with a mix of three letters and two numbers.” Those options are the laugh out loud, wink, sunglasses, heart eyes, and smile emoji.

Emojis have always been about capturing the sentiment. Be it congratulating somebody with the prayer hands, expressing displeasure with the "unamused face," or incognito flirting by way of eggplants and peaches, the emoji landscape has become a cornerstone of modern-day communication. To think what our forebearers might have thought, were they forced to decipher an iMessage transcript. In fact, some might even be so bold as to call emojis a "language." After all, like many languages, emojis have continued to evolve over time.

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Now, 117 new emojis are set to join the fray over the course of the next year. Many have already accepted the "smiling face with tear" as a reflection of their soul, while others simply cannot wait to ask for the gabbagool with "Italian hand." There are women in tuxes, men in wedding dresses, and the transgender flag. There are mammoths and dodos, buffalos and polar bears. A Ninja seems destined to develop a dubious euphemistic meaning. As for the beaver...well...Canadian pride? Sike, another inevitable euphemism. 

Check out the new batch below and sound off with your early favorites.