The next wave of emoji could help you evoke beauty and existential dread

Here's a peek at nine new emoji that are coming your way, including a cracked face and a meatball meteor. Bless the Unicode Consortium for enabling humans to express themselves more freely through the universal language of emoji. Ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17 (i.e. the date shown on the calendar icon), Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair Jennifer Daniel offered a peek at nine new designs that should hit your devices by next spring. I can already tell Cracking Face is immediately going to be one of my most-used emoji. I imagine it'll be a useful alternative to Melting Face, which I have on heavy rotation. It depicts a smiling face that's crumbling apart, indicating a facade of positivity behind which one is not okay. When the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) accepted several emoji for t