Meta has introduced some new Messenger options for Worldwide Ladies’s Day, together with new phrase results choices, customized chat backgrounds on the theme, and instruments for Messenger Youngsters.

First off, on Phrase Results, which Messenger added final 12 months. Phrase Results allow you to decide on an emoji to be paired with a sure phrase or time period, which can then spark an on-screen explosion of that emoji character every time it is used inside your chat.

And for Worldwide Ladies’s Day, Messenger has added a sequence of its personal Phrase Results, triggered by varied phrases.

“A high-heeled shoe emoji will rain throughout the display once you ship the phrase “boss” in a chat, a flex emoji will seem for “go woman,” and the feminine superhero emoji reinforces that “mother” isn’t only a mom – she’s superhuman.”

Look, they’re slightly bit cringe, however the concept is well-intentioned – and you may, in fact, outline your individual Phrase Results by selecting an emoji to affiliate with no matter phrase or time period you select, even in case you don’t like these ones.

However simply be cautious that in case you’re utilizing Messenger to ship a message to your boss this month, issues may get slightly complicated.

Along with this, Messenger’s additionally including a brand new themed sticker pack, created by illustrator and graphic designer Lucie Corbasson, which is designed to “encourage dialog round feminine empowerment, progress, and sisterhood”

Messenger’s additionally including a brand new Lo-Fi chat theme and customized sticker pack from artist Elora Pautrat, which will even be out there inside Instagram.

And eventually, on Messenger Youngsters, Meta’s additionally including new themed stickers which have a good time totally different passions, “from math and science, to artwork and literature, to sports activities and management”, in an effort to encourage women to comply with their desires. There are additionally new AR masks which spotlight two iconic ladies in historical past – Cleopatra and Marie Curie.

Worldwide Ladies’s Day presents a possibility to have a good time the contributions of girls, and the significance, and significance, of feminine achievements, whereas it’s additionally an essential reminder of the impacts of implicit bias, and the varied challenges that girls nonetheless face, in lots of parts.

These Messenger instruments present a way to participate within the broader dialogue, and whereas the flood of emojis for sure phrases might be slightly questionable, the thought is that you could and will take this chance to acknowledge crucial ladies in your life.

The options will probably be energetic in Messenger all through the month.