Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
19 comments
·August 17, 2025thomascountz
The iconic decoration reflects light in all directions and transforms every room - no matter how big its size - into a glamorous space in which people can dance or dream.
cubefox
It is the year 2118. ASI is taking over the light cone. The economy grows 100% each solar year. Still no emoji support on Hacker News.
weinzierl
Hacker News supports emojis just fine, as you can see here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659248
It's just that most people can't deal with them responsibly, so it has not been made easy.
michaelt
:'(
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DonHopkins
It should reflect the colors of pixels on the screen in all different directions in real time, and also cast bright spots of colored light all over the screen, while spinning. The stress test would be to fill the entire screen with many disco balls, over live video. Also a set of colored spotlight and smoke machine emojis would go well with it nicely too.
kookamamie
Cute, but all of the example emojis look pretty poor, murky if you will.
lifestyleguru
Would be the most culturally neutral "party emoji". Party popper is not used that much outside of Anglosphere, confetti ball even less so and its emoji looks like medusa.
gpt5
It is part of Unicode, and I've never seen it being used. I'll venture to say it didn't catch up as a party emoji.
tgv
Why would you have such a thing? When you communicate, you know the receivers' culture, isn't it? Otherwise wouldn't it be a rather infrequent symbol with less practical use than e.g. "incomplete infinity"?
charcircuit
>confetti ball even less so
Because it's a Japan only thing.
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Ah yes the super smash brothers ball
heinrich5991
U+1FAA9
deathanatos
Added in Unicode 14: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/emoji-released.html
I also appreciate melting face, dotted outline face, and face with salute. Low battery & ID card.
drno123
Also the pregnant man / Bill Gates was added there :)
paglaghoda
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Clip art is dead, long live clip art!
Unicode started with the mission to encode all characters needed for written communication in the world. This was already broad, but was not unusual for its time. Unlike Wikipedia, Unicode never went through a battle between inclusionists and deletionists. Moreover, with Han Unification it strayed from its core mission to "encode all characters needed for written communication in the world" (emphasis mine).
Instead it ended up as a fancy clip art library that every software somehow has to support, but with no way to implement the standard in its entirety.