January 29 2021, 12:32 pm | BY Kim Shaw | No Comments
MindNation, one of Asia’s pioneer mental healthcare systems, together with Propel Manila, created the first-ever Complex Emojis to help people make sense of the complicated emotions brought about by these complicated times.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines in March, the Philippines have spent ten months in isolation and counting, experiencing the world’s longest lockdown. This prolonged isolation has given rise to new, overwhelming, and complicated emotions that are hard to understand, yet alone verbalize.
Based on the most common combinations of emotions experienced in the pandemic, the Complex Emojis were created by redesigning the familiar emojis to show a mix of different emotions instead of just one. It was a clever and lighthearted way of showing people it’s okay to feel a lot of things all at once. Especially now in these difficult and unprecedented times.