In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as well as across the internet.

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently available to Apple News+ subscribers and can be found in the Puzzles section of the Apple News app, according to Apple.

The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and Fight Cloud

On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂,

Which emoji are the most popular in your corner of the world? You can now find out in real time with the new and improved EmojiTracker.

As Engadget noted, Unicode — the nonprofit that creates an emoji standard — might call it "Hairy Creature" because it wants the name to be understood globally, where Bigfoot might not be the preferred nomenclature. All eight emoji were among the expected additions for 2025, though a landslide emoji seemingly did not make the cut.

Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.”