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For those who don’t know, emoji refers to a ridiculously wide assortment of bizarre  little emoticons that are widely used in text messages in Japan.

Smiley faces are just the beginning—there are 25 pages of these! (Yes, that is a smiling turd.)

The iPhone 2.2 software update introduced support for emoji, but unfortunately, they aren’t available for people in the U.S.

All that has changed now, my friends. Behold, the simple 3-step process for enabling emoji on your iPhone:

1. Download the free iPhone app Spell Number. It’s an almost entirely useless app that spells out numbers in the form of words.
2. Type in the number 91929394.59. This will activate an easter egg in the app, which enables emoji on your iPhone.
3. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards > Japanese and flip the switch next to Emoji.
4. In all your other apps, the keyboard will now include a little globe icon. Tap that to access all the emojilicious fun!

(This is feature is hidden because Apple has cracked down on apps whose sole purpose is to activate emoji.)

There are a few caveats: The emoji will only display correctly on other people’s iPhones. If you try to read them in an email or online or an another kind of phone, they’ll probably come across as blank boxes or gibberish. But if you have friends with iPhones, super happy fun time is go!