Surprising: There are 10 homosexual WhatsApp emoticons on your phone

Emojis were invented by Japanese in the late 1990s and became popular worldwide after the iPhone was including it internationally. Later it was adopted by Android and in many applications thereafter. Emojis were used for differentiating topics in electronic messages and included characters ranging with facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals.

Social platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and a few too many, make use of emoticons which helps people send their emotions using simple characters. Emoticons started evolving from simple ideograms and smileys until now with more than thousands of variants. The emojis now feature separate categories: Classics, Moods expressions, Flags, Celebrations, Fun, Sports, Weather, Animals, Food, Nations, Occupations, Planets, Zodiac, and Babies. However, emojis now also include sexual icons and discriminatory emojis too. This means emojis are also available with styles and types that can be objectionable to many, which include caste, creed, religion and sexuality. For example, WhatsApp itself has 10 such homosexual emojis that are probably disturbing for many out there.

Tuko pointed out some disturbing emojis that is presently visible on WhatsApp. These emojis were added since December 2015 in app version 2.12.374. the emojis were controversial and depicted homosexual relationships.

Not all users took the update in positively. In February 2016, the Indonesian authorities directed Facebook and WhatsApp to block all emojis and stickers with LGBT themes in the country.

Check out 10 such controversial emojis that are presently showing on WhatsApp:

Image credits: Tuko