The flood of new emoji doesn’t end there, however. The runner, the weightlifter, the swimmer and the cyclist will also become available as both male and female emoji, as part of efforts to ...

But one of the starkest changes comes with the addition of a third option for the slew of human-like emoji - from rock star, to zombie, to dancing twins - that's neither the female nor male ...

Updates since then have seen emoji become more and more inclusive, with new sets of female emoji, variations of skin tone and a rainbow flag being added last year. From their humble beginnings ...