It’s World Emoji Day

(Because of differences in how services and operating systems interpret code, the calendar reads July 15 on Twitter or no date at all on Android.).

Aside from Taco Bell, which created an online petition past year, more and more publications are requesting to add their own emoji icons.

Anyone can submit a proposal to add a new character. Emoji’s are now regulated by the Unicode Consortium which looks at creating universal infrastructure which operates across multiple languages and platforms. Contenders on Reddit so far include strips of bacon, a rainbow flag and, yes, a taco.

The world’s emoji user community is a dedicated one, and they’ve launched a number of initiatives to widen the number of tiny icons available for people to express how they feel.

Others such as the taco have already been approved by Unicode but isn’t available to users yet. Some suggestions part of this vote are already choices for consideration.

Apple chose the date to display on the emoji because it was on this day in 2002 that the company announced the iCal for Mac.

Earlier in the year, Unicode worked together with Apple for adding 300 emoji’s focused on diversity once criticism spiked about a lack of black emoji’s.

Emojipedia keeps track of the additions, including the most recent wavethat added 41 characters, including a unicorn and a “nerd face”.