The application WhatsApp has managed to universalize communication. And it is that this messaging tool has managed, through word of mouth to land in no less than 700 million terminals everyone Perhaps because of the simplicity of its operation, because it is the option chosen by friends and family or because it is useful for any language. Even thanks to its Emoji emoticons that brighten up conversations and improve communication with icons that represent all cultures.Or almost all. And there are those who have launched their own personal battle against WhatsApp in order for one of the Spanish gastronomic dishes most representative reaches the application: the paella
He is about the Valencian humorist, how could it be otherwise, Eugeni Alemany, who at the end of 2014 began a campaign to through the social networks to try to carry out the introduction of this icon. Far from being a joke, and thanks to the support of a well-known rice brand from the same land, they have achieved everything they need to travel to Silicon Valley, San Francisco (USA), where they end their peculiar gastronomic campaign And they are very serious.
In addition to starting the campaign on social networks under the hashtag or hashtag PaellaEmoji, they also have a petition for signatures on the web page Change.org, where you can support them. And there are still more. Despite the humor surrounding this whole situation and its references to Apple CEO Tim Cock, and other companies that have little to do with the messaging application and its emoticon system, the initiative has known how to prepare well. In fact, they have their proposal for a paellero emoticon (image above) One that they have already been in charge of presenting to those responsible for Unicode, where the drawings and emoticons that end up later reaching the applications and other services are standardized. An image that has received the go-ahead for complying with all the technicalities, yes, without neglecting the rice, the beans, the chicken thigh and others of the basic ingredients of what is a authentic paella
And the fact is that the muslo of chicken, pizza, hamburgers or sushi does not represent Spanish cultureElements that are present in the collection of emoticons in the style Emoji available in WhatsApp For this reason They believe that a dish as international as paella cannot be missing from the repertoire of emoticons Emoji , in which novelties have already been proposed for future editions to try to represent more ethnic groups, races and expressions.
At the moment the trip to United States of this comedian and the representatives of the rice brand that endorse him is dated fornext February 6th In Silicon Valley, cradle of computing and place of settlement of major technology companies, will try to add support to introduce their icon into the Unicode system and, therefore, also reach WhatsApp, Twitter and other social networks that use this style emoticon code Emoji We will be attentive to this initiative.
