Tapping the new Christmas Tree emoji displays an animation of Santa flying in front of the moon on his sleigh with reindeer. On the other hand, the Fireworks emoji triggers a rocket launch ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji. We've heard that this one is in development from multiple rumours, and the latest one adds fuel to the rumour machine ...