Strength is a core traditional value across huge parts of humanity. Yet Google emoji kitchen doesn't support any combinations of emoji for it.

This will resolve YES if Google emoji kitchen adds at least 3 combos of the strong arm emoji, 💪, by June 30 2026.

Background

Emoji kitchen is a tool which generates custom interesting combined emojis on the fly as the user types in emojis. It's really fun and pretty neat! They're actually hand-created, but at first appear to be algorithmically generated, since there are so many.

The default Google keyboard has it installed but not activated by default. You can just flip the setting and they'll start showing up! They work super well in gchat, signal, and many other programs.

Within the huge number of potential pairs of emotions, things like "mushroom+dog" work and are converted to a mushroom dog, as are things like carrot+kiss = "a kissing carrot". I believe google has created over 30k of them, and new ones are added frequently, too.

My speculation on why there are no strong arm emojis

I'm guessing that since strength is such a gendered issue traditionally, and the use of power, strength, as well as its risks is so fraught, within the social environment of unicode, design, emojis, etc it's pretty hard to even talk about strength and its role in global cultures, and so nobody proposes any new strong-arm emojis. Also, probably worries about "masculinity" or "the patriarchy" come into the discussion. This is unfortunate since it basically picks one side of the debate on whether power itself is evil, or just misuses of it.

I'd also offer the claim that in probably the majority of world cultures, among male groups, and also among females, strength in males is viewed as a positive thing. i.e. in interviews way more than 50% of women would say they like strong men, way more than 50% of men would say they want to be strong, etc etc. In such cultures, and even broadly across the US, Europe, and 1st world in general, I also claim that there would be a huge demand for emojis such as "strong hug", "strong kiss" where the hugger is male and is tightly protecting/loving a female emoji face. And it'd be fine to have reverse apparent gender pairs, and also all combinations of same-gender people too. Similarly, anger+baseball => angry bat, etc etc. would all get tons of use. (This is my claim; if you actually AB test this with a fair test, yes I would definitely bet at quite bad odds that these emojis would get used a lot. If you are going to claim I'm wrong a priori here, I literally will bet equal money with you that strength combo emojis, as long as they're done in a normal way, would obviously be taken up broadly. It's unlikely google will test this but I'd also accept any other platform which has anything like a normally distributed user base.).

Why it matters

Since emojis are primarily used for person to person, individual communication, it's very strange that this global desire isn't being satisfied now, probably at google's expense (if there were any competition in the markets their products were used in, this would be more obvious). i.e., real human beings and their relationships and feelings and expressivity are being curtailed by the specific, anti-strength / fear of strength views of the people involved in deciding what to include here. I'd also claim that this viewpoint has no actual beneficial effect; i.e. doing this kind of idea/language control on people does not actually improve outcomes (domestic violence, self-control, crime rates), it just eventually makes people feel controlled and manipulated.

Judging criteria

• If the claim is technically semi satisfied but on a way that actually is much more satisfying to people who believed that there shouldn't be strength emojis like this, then I won't just YES and make the whole thing pointless. example: if they change the default strong arm to something more androgynous, with say a limp wrist, or other trait making it unmasculine, and only then add combos, none of which seem actually suitably male/strong, then that's not a YES despite the terms being followed (since the emoji "changed" to this androgynous version). To YES it has to actually be something that looks strong and which say a traditional, normal (i.e. never really spent much time worrying about his gender presentation), married man with a few kids who works in a factory and goes to church would accept himself using.

Resolution

Will they offer at least three strength related emoji kitchen combinations by mid 2026, specifically of the strong arm emojis or whatever it evolves into?

Images (taken at market creation time)

They support emoji combinations for: carrots

Emoji Kitchen (web version for testing):

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=emoji+kitchen

The arm doesn't appear in the search results of https://emojikitchen.dev/