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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by chrisco255 »

whalesalad wrote: post #83
chrisco255 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Apple has the best emoji's, without a doubt. Everything else is wish.com garbage - especially Twitter.

It's not, and also another reason Twitter has its own emojis is so that the Tweets have the same text wrapping on every platform. This means you can actually use the tweets as a canvas filled with emojis and know that the formatting will be the same everywhere.

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by recursive »

chrisco255 wrote: post #44
whalesalad wrote: post #3

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.

This is just a special case of how different fonts appear different.

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by gorkish »

klyrs wrote: post #50
moralestapia wrote: post #4

It's interesting that Microsoft started with a toy gun, then someone around 2015-2016 made the decision to turn it into a real gun.

Yeah but going the other way is political .

If Freud slips in a forest, does he fall the other way?

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by postepowanieadm »

kmfrk wrote: post #30

Does this retroactively change the meaning of the emoji people used, or is it only applying to future use of the emoji? (That would be a fun legal hypothetical.)

Imagine someone sending a water gun and another person receiving a real gun.

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by giraffe_lady »

theultdev wrote: post #94
xk_id wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a thin veiled whistle blow against woke culture. The very concept of corporate-curated glyphs restricts and normalises communication to a limited range of concepts pre-approved by the architects of consumer culture. But apparently this is only a problem to you when it tries to discourage armed violence.

It's not a "veiled whistle blow", it's my personal belief. But yes, I am against woke culture at it's core, vehemently. In no way does an emoji encourage armed violence. Are you against violent video games as well?

Woke is good, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Speech_(painting)#/...

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by BoredPositron »

whycome wrote: post #63
blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #23

Great to see this change. The decision to get rid of the gun emoji was itself an act of political activism, highlighting the left leaning bias in many of these organizations - or at least the power given to the voices that pushed for those changes. It was a naked way to influence the culture around guns, and make them less visible. But it also killed funny uses of the actual pistol emoji. For the record, the underlyi…

Its slow, but I'm pretty sure Unicode updated name. https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html #1121

That might just be the worst implementation of lazy loading I've ever seen.

Re: X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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Post by qual »

theultdev wrote: post #94
xk_id wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a thin veiled whistle blow against woke culture. The very concept of corporate-curated glyphs restricts and normalises communication to a limited range of concepts pre-approved by the architects of consumer culture. But apparently this is only a problem to you when it tries to discourage armed violence.

It's not a "veiled whistle blow", it's my personal belief. But yes, I am against woke culture at it's core, vehemently. In no way does an emoji encourage armed violence. Are you against violent video games as well?

(Not the person you were replying to)

I'm curious what/how you define "woke culture", because the only definitions of "woke" I've ever heard are basically "thing I don't like" or "the left". Neither of those definitions have helped me understand what you are so vehemently against.

Can you help me understand what woke culture is to you?

This is a genuine question.

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