diff --git a/third_party/2and3/simplejson/__init__.pyi b/third_party/2and3/simplejson/__init__.pyi
index 452a4ffc7..6221b4efa 100644
--- a/third_party/2and3/simplejson/__init__.pyi
+++ b/third_party/2and3/simplejson/__init__.pyi
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-from typing import Any, IO, Text
+from typing import Any, IO, Text, Union
 
 from simplejson.scanner import JSONDecodeError as JSONDecodeError
 from simplejson.decoder import JSONDecoder as JSONDecoder
 from simplejson.encoder import JSONEncoder as JSONEncoder, JSONEncoderForHTML as JSONEncoderForHTML
 
+_LoadsString = Union[Text, bytes, bytearray]
+
+
 def dumps(obj: Any, *args: Any, **kwds: Any) -> str: ...
 def dump(obj: Any, fp: IO[str], *args: Any, **kwds: Any) -> None: ...
-def loads(s: Text, **kwds: Any) -> Any: ...
+def loads(s: _LoadsString, **kwds: Any) -> Any: ...
 def load(fp: IO[str], **kwds: Any) -> Any: ...