Is 🐕 meaningful enough?

[thbwd]

⭐️ Proposed change

I propose replacing 🐕 with 💁‍♂️/💁‍♀️. A poll on Twitter https://twitter.com/real_emojicode/status/1114163821571182593?s=21 yielded this as the top result already. It falls in line with 🤷‍♀️ and 🙅‍♀️.

The alternative I considered is👇(proposed by @benwiley4000). Its major advantage is that it is not another person gesturing, which can be somewhat hard to distinguish.

🤔 Rationale

🐕 doesn’t convey the meaning of “this instance” well.

[Maja Kądziołka]

🙅 and 🤷 are already somewhat similar, but it's not a problem because of the distinct syntactical context they can appear in - 🤷🍇 is not a combination you'll ever see. On the other hand, there are many contexts where both 🤷 and 🐕 can appear - anywhere you'd use a value:

  ↩️🐕
  ↩️🤷
  🐕➡️🐽list 1❗
  🤷➡️🐽list 1❗
  🌔earth 🐕❗
  🌔earth 🤷❗

As such, 💁‍♀️ is, IMHO, a poor choice. I would be much happier with 👇 being used for this purpose.