capybara and guinea pig are both far less popular than taco or emoji
interestingly, the spike of taco in google trends seems like it might be correlated to it's addition to emoji - that spike would be about a year after iOS got the Taco emoji.
I suppose you could start a popular open source project and name it the word you want to become an emoji.
Cavies on the other hand look like adorable furry idiots with a much less angular — in fact, rotund — outline.
Aside from both being rodents and (apparently) delicious, these are quite different animals.
You could tell a guinea-pig-sized capybara apart from a guinea pig, or a capybara-sized guinea pig apart from a capybara, blindfolded. Probably anyone who expects guinea pigs to be soft but has never met a capybara would get it right on the first try.
> Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.
That being said, I already cannot parse many emoji and would love tooltips what they are supposed to represent in all places.
(/s because from TFA "Petitions are not considered as evidence since they are too easily skewed")
Internet: "Boaty McBoatface."
Boat owner: "Democracy is a mistake."
TL; DR: washing-up-detergent maker Pril does online competition and promised to put the winning design on shelves, the design that got most votes: https://heideblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/screen-shot...
Somewhere online there's a pic of these things on the shelves/they did make them as collectibles.
Boaty McBoatface is the most famous boat behind the Titanic, so it definitely worked.
The inherent issue with these campaigns is the select for initial response not how long you’re going to like some design.
(I mean, if we can have 'taco'…)