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My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
lmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
This is exactly as stupid as changing it to a water pistol in the first place was
Why do you want a real gun? I bet most uses are to bully people. It seems that's the kind of social network Elon wants.
Various knives are available if you want it, so if anything we should add MORE emojis (gun combining character something else = various types of gun, say).
In fact, it's easier to have one "known bad" emoji to check than having hundreds to look at.
I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
When the platform is the web this means you get inconsistent emojis across browsers. Also Twitter has better designed emojis than any browser vendor hands down.
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The change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original. Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.
The original change was for ideological reasons and this change is for ideological reasons too. Both are same stupid waste of time.
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It's not a git revert. It is active effort to create a new emoji. There's zero cost to leaving it alone, there's material cost to changing it. Last time I checked, that's a bad way for a company that nearly went out of business to prioritize.
Well, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them. It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.
I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
1: https://emojipedia.org/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes#design...
The fact that the emoji was "censored" to begin with is weird to me. But the internet is weird and now people will be getting banned from X for using gun emojis to promote political violence.
I found it alarming that the meaning of previous texts between many people could be altered by simply changing the glyph of an emote. And noone voted for it, all companies effectively in charge of these emojis (Google, Apple, etc.) decided for everyone that it was for the best. What will they change next, who initiated and coordinated that effort, and why, are all important questions. I'm very much against it. It's t…
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My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
lmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
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Well, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them. It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.
Oh you're right, the pixels of an emoji are really going to be what reverses Twitter's loss of advertisers and active user counts
I'm simply saying you're talking about Twitter right now because of it, and it was a small change.
You know it was if you're an engineer, let's not play dumb.
Not sure why everything relating to X has to be so hostile.