Meet the master of emojis Jeremy Burge, the creator of Emojipedia who lives on a riverboat

21 Sep 2021

Dennis Cavernelis & Richard van Rensburg

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Jeremy Burge is a fountain of knowledge on what he calls "modern hieroglyphs" and created the Emojipedia to catalogue them all. (Photo: Facebook)

If you love using emojis to share your disappointment or your laugher or simply to tell your children that it’s time for sleep, be prepared to get a lot more expressive in the coming month.

This month, 37 new emojis will be released, including new nonbinary emojis.

These will include a person with a crown joining the king and queen, a pregnant man and a nonbinary pregnant person.

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