Most individuals make use of emojis as a potent tool in modern forms of communication. As a result a large number of emoticons have been created in order to best depict everyman's emotional range. However, despite the fact that there are some emojis whose motivations for creation are decidedly obscure (an emoji of a spider, for instance, or that of what can be best described as a wind elemental) there does not exist an emoji for a bog standard shark.

This acute lapse in judgement must be brought to the notice of Emojipedia Pty Ltd, lest we live forever in the digital age without a shark emoticon to express our most heartfelt sentiments.

We must rally numbers to this cause, a crucial preliminary step in ensuring the abolition of prejudice against these noble denizens of the deep.

We want sharks!