RIP Sexy Peach Emoji, the Juiciest Butt Icon of Our Generation

Picture this: The year is 2020. You and your long-haired paramour are happily frolicking along some faraway beach, when all of a sudden, a familiar but wizened-looking peach—its skin wrinkled beyond its years and the light faded from its cartoon eyes—approaches you and desperately begins to try and sell you a puka-shell-encrusted T-shirt.

The peach, looking ever more familiar by the moment, explains that he lost his job a few years back and never fully recovered. Sure, there was a brief period where he was able to find some less-than-reputable work in the state of Georgia, but he never fully regained his livelihood after the sudden redundancy. After apologetically explaining that you don't have your wallet on you, the peach dejectedly slinks off into the distance where you see it meeting up with an old Blackberry and the Noid from Domino's Pizza.

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.

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

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.

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SAVE THE PEACH BUTT

— Aminatou Sow (@aminatou) November 1, 2016

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

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.

What will the future of sexting entail without the belovedly Rubenesque peach of yore?

RIP TO THE PEACH EMOJI, THE ONLY WAY I KNEW WHAT A BUTT LOOKS LIKE

— lil lawsuit shawty (@sexualjumanji) November 1, 2016

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.