Guinea Pig emoji

[Crissov]

Guinea Pigs may look a bit similar to hamsters or gerbils. 🐹

[leMaik]

What is the status of this proposal and the next steps to move it forward?

Edit: According to this article it was declined on 2020. If this decision is final, then this could probably be closed as won't fix, leaving guinea pig owners with either a hamster emoji or the combination of the guinea flag and a pig. 😅

[Crissov]

Thank you for the link. I wish more emoji proposers would document their experience publicly.

Yeah, I’m not tracking proposals as closely as I used to. The Emoji Subcommittee has been confined to reconsider rejected emoji proposals in the past, e.g. for the Donkey, so I would not rule it out completely just yet (unlike flags).

I have a more general proposal half-ready that would make it possible to have face/head and body options become available for more animal emojis – a body variant of 🐹 could be better.

In their list of suggestions, Emojination marked a potential Guinea Pig emoji as redundant.

By the way, in my observation (especially on Twitter), a Capybara emoji has more supporters (or at least requesters) than a Guinea Pig emoji.

[jeanmacd]

Hi, I'm the person who proposed the guinea pig emoji. I happened to be researching this subject again, and came across this GitHub discussion. It prompted me to update my blog post with a link to the PDF proposal that was submitted in March 2020. I still think it's an important emoji to add, but as far as I know, the committee won't accept revised proposals. Still, in case anyone wants to see a failed emoji proposal, I'm attaching it here.
guinea-pig-emoji.pdf

PS. I adore capybaras, but I can't imagine that a capybara emoji would get used anywhere near as often as a guinea pig, given how widespread they are as pets, plus the metaphorical significance they have as testers. (As outlined in my proposal.)

[Crissov]

I think the ESC asks for a revised proposal if it was not following their guidelines. They have accepted completely new proposals for emojis they had declined before, e.g. Donkey, but they would probably reject a slightly edited revision of a document that already failed.