Does Apple’s new emoji feature a threat to creativity?

If you answered yes, today’s announcement of 72 brand new emojis will give you a smiley face. You can see what these will look like in the image above, which is a mockup by Emojipedia of the new emojis in Apple’s graphic style. The Unicode standards body this week “released” the latest round of new emoji characters, including sneezing face, drooling face, “selfie”, boxing glove and “face palm”.

But Apple’s new emoji feature seems more likely to impede a different kind of skill: creating surprising, figurative and subversive forms of individual expression out of the digital ephemera that populate our devices. A group of emojis were proposed as part of a group representing Olympic sports ahead of the upcoming games but Buzzfeed reports both Apple and Microsoft argued against including the rifle.

There’s also countless food and food-related emojis, ranging from avocados, cucumbers, croissants, and baguettes to spoons, champagne flutes, and even a “tumbler glass” (i.e. a glass of whiskey on the rocks).

Other updates to people in Unicode 9.0 let users type a clown, pregnant woman or a man appearing to do the dance from “Saturday Night Fever”.

Unicode version 9.0 is now available with 7,500 new characters, adding to a total of 128,172 characters.

Emojis are illustrated differently across platforms such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Facebook.