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Unicode has announced it will update the lobster emoji after the first version was missing two legs.
Earlier this month, the Unicode consortium, which designs and releases emojis, showed off a suite of 157 new emoji designs, including the long-awaited lobster.
🙌 🚨 The 2018 Emoji List 🚨 🙌
📝 157 new emojis🆕 Redheads, bagel, lobster, softball and more🗓 Coming to phones in the second half of 2018🔗 https://t.co/0WsgcRC3qQ pic.twitter.com/Q2WugvHdZ3
— Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) February 7, 2018
In an act of startling disrespect to our crustacean friends, or perhaps just an innocent oversight, the lobster was not anatomically correct; it had only eight legs instead of 10.
Emoji fans took to Twitter to decry the error.
Can you get them to fix the legs, it's seriously messed up! Who creates these things- geez
— Bubba Skimmah (@bfav) February 16, 2018
Unicode was quick to act, with chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, Jeremy Burge writing on the site’s blog: “We heard you. We made some mistakes. And we are fixing them.”
So without further ado, behold the brand new, 10-legged emoji lobster.
This wasn’t the only mistake Unicode made in the latest batch of emojis. It also designed a DNA Double Helix which twisted the wrong way. Oops.
The lobster emoji and others will become available throughout 2018.
