In 2019, filmmaker Theo Schear and harpist Mary Lattimore co-wrote a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, pleading with the group to create the first-ever harp emoji. It has been approved, and will be available for use later this year or in early 2025.

Your Joanna Newsom fanposting is about to be so lit. The Unicode Consortium, whose Unicode text encoding standard governs digital text and emojis on devices worldwide, has approved the addition of a harp emoji.

In 2019, filmmaker Theo Schear and harpist Mary Lattimore co-wrote a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, asking the group to create the first-ever harp emoji. That request has now been approved, and the emoji will officially be yours to use later this year or early next.