Emoji Aren't Silly—They Could Actually Help the Deaf. Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9. Getty Images ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

We're getting a sneak peek at the emojis that will probably be available on iOS and Android as World Emoji Day commences on Sunday! (Photo : Emojipedia) The draft list and example images for Emoji 15.