The most important emoji.

The Unicode Consortium is the organization that created the Unicode Standard, a system that supports the interchange and display of special text characters across a variety of devices (they make emojis 😀🤗🙃). On June 21, 2016, the Unicode Consortium released Unicode 9.0, which included some notable favorites: bacon, the selfie, a gorilla (i.e. Harambe), a black heart, and the way too useful facepalm.

If you're using the latest version of Android or iOS 10.2 (released December 12, 2016), you'll probably see these emojis on your device, and if you're like me, you've been using the wonderfully expressive "shrug" daily.

When this group of new emojis was released, many of my friends were tweeting and sharing their excitement; not because of the new hand arrangements and professions or the added gender/race diversity. Those are fantastic, but my social feeds were flooded with the happiness of jugglers who finally could be represented through emoji.

Yes! Finally, a juggler emoji! For too long, our Instagram posts and tweets were accompanied with three emoji circles to represent juggling balls (🔵🔵🔵) or an emoji-less #juggling. But now, just like the swimmers, dancers, policemen, and bicyclists, we can use an emoji to express ourselves too. With a range of skin tones and both male and female options, every juggler is finally represented.

It may not seem like much, but it means that juggling is finally important/interesting/common enough to need an emoji. In our modern world, this is a big step for the juggling community, so December 12, 2016 was a pretty exciting day for jugglers.

So when you're using the new emojis like the potato, the rhinoceros, or the pregnant lady, remember: the most significant emoji of 2016 is the juggler, and you should be using it too.