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when you can't find the right emoji just make your own I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update the world of emoji is expanding these cartoon icons on our smartphone keyboards have conquered our digital communication giving us a way to express our feelings and add personality to text but if you've ever felt like there wasn't an emoji that could express the feeling you're really going for perhaps you need to try the random ojen ater it's a website that mixes up different parts of emojis to create complex Franken emoji like this one that says I'm unhappy with what I'm smelling or perhaps it says something's in my eye and then there's this one that says I love it but I'm also feeling empty inside and this guy is a whole new level of sad but so shocked he can't look away and oh gosh I don't know but I know there could have been days I would have used it the site was created by a 17 year old that got the idea after playing around with the pokemon fusion generator but there really will be more normal emoji coming in fact the family of icons expands all the time there's an organization responsible for maintaining the standards for text communication and software they're called the Unicode consortium they set recommendations on which icon should be added based on different factors like if it's highly requested or if it fills the gap the group has approved several new emoji for the next update including a taco and a unicorn no word on when that's actually coming to your phone but now they're voting on the next wave and some icons proposed include a sneezing face or a green salad and a stuffed flatbread sandwich and maybe someday we'll get a spoon instead of waiting for an official update you can always download an app to send your own emojis as photos the Star Wars app now has 52 emoji of all the characters you like there's c-3po Chewie yoda jedi ghost yoda nine different Anakin's and a melted Darth Vader helmet you just copy the icon then paste it in your message as a pitcher it also lets you copy and send animated gifts it's on iOS now and coming soon to Android but should we worry that we're becoming a little too obsessed with emoji McDonald's and France has created an advertisement with humans walking around eating burgers and shakes with big fat yellow emoji heads all with the emoji expressions you know as if we're all mindless yellow blobs going through life taking selfies and ordering chicken nuggets well let me tell you we are more complex than a few pixels we are not oh jeez guys really funny yeah you have to pull you back now you can't leave me like this and I'm at a time all right well that's it for your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey