This is exactly as stupid as changing it to a water pistol in the first place was
that can't possibly be true. this is the original
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
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#32This is exactly as stupid as changing it to a water pistol in the first place was
Yeah, stuff like this just should not ever be changed in this way, IMO. It shouldn't have been changed in the first place, but two wrongs don't make a right either, it just makes the problem even worse.
If we have older communications that use an emoji, it can retroactively edit the meaning if that emoji renders to a fundamentally different object than it used to, so this kind of change has the side effect of rewriting history unless people take extra care to only use fonts that match the age of the document.
It's already hard enough to communicate clearly and effectively in the modern world without having the rug pulled out from under us with stuff like this.
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#33Great 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…
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#34I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
In general I would agree, but the platforms have also censored the gun emoji with the water gun .
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#35I grew up with the argument that video game violence causes real violence. At the time, conservatives were keen on censoring violence, blood and gore in movies, video games and TV shows. It was the liberal establishment that defended artistic violence and sexuality. Now it seems like the pendulum swung and liberals seem keen on promoting squirt gun emojis, meanwhile some of the most popular video games on the market are things like Call of Duty where you blast people away with automatic machine guns and sniper rifle head shots.
It's very strange keeping up with the shifting tides of opinions about these sorts of things.
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#36The 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.
It really is weird. And if someone supported the change, why exactly stop there? We can make fonts have custom ligatures where the letters `gun` together could have a completely different rendering, so we could replace it with a single glyph that looks like "water gun" -- I can't see how that's more absurd than censoring the gun. It's not as though it's more difficult to threaten violence with text than with an emoji.
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#37Is this part of new twitter management to "destroy the woke mind virus"? Yikes.
Buddy's mind has wondered off to the hadal zone. Well beyond the point of "no return".
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#38Wow. Microsoft's original version was a pretty good compromise. (they used a futuristic blaster icon)
It's kind of funny that Microsoft was ahead of the time, changed it back to match other libraries, and then changed it again to keep up.
Just can't win.
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#39Great 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…
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#40How do they technically implement this? Custom font? Or replace every emoji with an <img tag?
They're SVGs in img tags. This is the new one: https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web/1f52b.1465b2...
