The blob concurred. In 2014, the blob took the side of anti-Russian protesters in a street coup which overthrew an elected Ukrainian president who wanted to maintain strong ties to Russia.

The Blob is incredibly fun, but it’s also a rebuke of the Eisenhower-era nostalgia for a nuclear family and a notion of “normalcy” and law-and-order being pushed by conservative leadership.

Blob emojis exist as stickers, too. The star method isn’t the only way to use blobs in your chats. Android Authority showed off this alternative method: Open the emoji keyboard, tap the stickers ...