The Unicode Consortium is ringing in the New Year with a proposed treasure trove of new emojis for 2025/2026, ranging from a bug-eyed smiley face to a Sasquatch facsimile.

Starbucks is adding a drink called the "Cloud Macchiato" to the menu, as a part of a collaboration with the singer Ariana Grande.

The "God Is a Woman" singer herself also got in on the fun by firing off an emoji-filled tweet that alluded to the March 5 drop of the Starbucks Cloud Macchiato.

Anybody who follows her will know she’s a huge fan of the cloud emoji, she always writes in lowercase and she’s partial to some upside down text. Thank U, Next Album: Ariana Grande's NASA ...

Funny, a made-in-China emoji, inclusively used on Tieba, the largest Chinese communication platform provided by the search engine giant Baidu, seems to have recently moved beyond just China.