Raise your hand (and not with the hand-raise girl 🙋 because you don't have one) if you've ever felt personally victimized by the lack of bright, beautiful red hair on your emoji keyboard. Since the last big emoji update, redheads everywhere have been stuck trying to decide between being blond or brunette to express their feels of choice. Hopefully, that's about to end though.

Jeremy Burge of the Emoji Subcommittee has submitted an official request for a redheaded emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee (the group that has the final say on what ends up on your keyboards). The UTC's next meeting, hosted by Apple, is scheduled for next week.

Burge, who wrote the report on Emojipedia, shared the detailed official proposal that he sent to the UTC. He discusses the possibility of simply applying redheaded features to the basic woman and man emoji, or going full throttle and adding red hair as an option for each and every customizable emoji. But we mean, c'mon is that even a question? Redheaded dancing girl emoji for all!

If the fiery passion behind a ginger emoji seems familiar, you may have happened upon Ginger Parrot's 2015 petition, "Redheads should have emoji too!" "If you say you're going to diversify, why not add a few redhaired emoji in the mix?" read the petition, which garnered 20,234 signatures. "Natural redheads may be rare at less than 2 percent of the world's population, but that is 138,000,000 iPhones waiting to happen."


While we won't know the fate of the redheaded emoji until next week, the UTC does have a history of heeding users' passionate requests. Inquiries for emoji depicting racially diverse people, different-sized families, the taco, the avocado, a hijab-wearing woman, women playing sports, and women in a variety of professions have all been accepted by the UTC. The UTC also approved eliminating the gun emoji (replacing it with a squirt gun), and when the peach was "upgraded" and no longer looked like a butt, users demanded it be reverted, and the UTC gave in.

But don't get too excited—the next official emoji rollout won't be until 2018. So even if a slew of glorious redheaded emoji do get approved, you'll have to keep improvising for the rest of 2017. 😕

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