[zyx321]

That list only includes suggestions that were seriously considered and voted on.

Since it's a vote, there is no single official 'reason' for rejection. If I had to guess: it would be confusing to anyone who didn't grow up with American TV shows.

[pwdisswordfishq]

Eh, it's not like there are hundreds of emojises pretty much exclusively tied to Japanese culture.

[maxbond]

They were grandfathered in, not voted on. Or rather there was a vote that resulted in adopting the character sets developed by Japanese telecoms en masse.

[Ekaros]

Weirdly this is in line with Unicode in general. Widespread (and not even widespread) historic use in say print results in characters getting included.

[mananaysiempre]

> emojises

I don’t protest the coinage here (goodness knows my native language did worse things to English words), but I can’t stop saying it in Gollum’s voice.

[throawayonthe]

what's the connection to american TV shows? i'm only aware of the tinfoil hat through cultural osmosis i guess, something about shielding from radio waves

it's a popular image/byword/archetype for conspiracy theorists, idk if it's a common enough symbol to justify emoji inclusion. the submitted proposals probably have analyses of that though :p