The scene above is not meant to bring you into a fit of tears—although it almost certainly will—but to depict the most likely future for the callipygous peach emoji that we all know and love.READ MORE: Who Needs Emojis When You Can Mail Your Lover a Personalized Eggplant?
Because it's gone. That's right: Apple has done the impossible and replaced the peach emoji with an emoji that looks like, well, more like a peach and less like a very nice butt. And people are not pleased.Y'all done misused the peach emoji so often apply had to change it. Just watch, they bout to delete the eggplant in the next update. pic.twitter.com/R3cbBaODbI
— Oscar Pimienta (@Opimi1) November 1, 2016
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SAVE THE PEACH BUTT
— Aminatou Sow (@aminatou) November 1, 2016
The change came along with the release this week of the first beta version of iOS 10.2, which gives users access to Unicode 9.0—meaning a whole lot of new and revised emoji. There's an avocado, as well as new profession avatars, like a "rock star." And sadly for many, there's also a new peach.RIP to the old peach emoji. Thank you for getting me A LOT of sex. You will be missed when I describe my butt to potential suitors xoxo pic.twitter.com/rTJ5Vc7djl
— Harry Clayton-Wright (@HClaytonWright) November 1, 2016
What will the future of sexting entail without the belovedly Rubenesque peach of yore?READ MORE: This London Restaurant Menu Is Written Entirely in Emojis
Luckily, the cherries and aubergine remain. We'll have to work with it people—we'll just have to make do.R.I.P. peach, you tantalising temptress of texting. You will be missed.RIP TO THE PEACH EMOJI, THE ONLY WAY I KNEW WHAT A BUTT LOOKS LIKE
— lil lawsuit shawty (@sexualjumanji) November 1, 2016