Luckily for all shrug-lovers, there is a sliver of hope. The Unicode 9 emoji candidate list, which tells us which emojis are in the running for the next update, includes the shrug emoji.For that ...

The organization that approves new emoji before they hit your keyboard has just announced 72 more emoji which will be added to the Unicode standard (Unicode 9.0) later this month.

But she sees the shrug emoji as useful in our networked exchanges. “Everything is all TLDR, and emoji is the way to come in and make an instant impact,” she says.

Apple's developer preview of iOS 10.2 offers the first look at a handful of fresh emojis, including Shrug, Avocado, Face Palm, Duck, Fox, Fingers Crossed and Gorilla (AKA Harambe), as spotted by ...