Tbh it is actually the “gun” emoji and was changed to a water pistol years ago (after some mass shooting iirc). But knowing why he’s doing it now makes me very uneasy.
(Parkland school shooting was in 2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji#Controversy_and_glyph_changes
Google never should have changed from the blunderbuss, or the blob emojis for that matter.
Well, if there’s one thing that’s clear from all this, it’s that Microsoft and Google at least used to have some style.
I had to look up what a blunderbuss was and just learned it was a real thing. I’d only ever seen them used in cartoons. It just looks cartoonish.
It looks like instead of BLAM, it goes honk.
That is FASCINATING. Thanks for finding that!
Kind of bummed at the lack of variety. :(
Apple and Xitter should keep what they currently have. Microsoft and Google should switch back to their 2013 versions because they were awesome. Facebook should also switch back to its 2013 emoji, but in that case because the revolver was the previously most common one and its the basic bitch of social media. Samsung should switch to an emoji of either that improvised gun the guy who shot Shinzo Abe used, or some ridiculous anime weapon.
Rare, and I mean extremely rare musk W. Changing them to water pistols was fucking stupid and has never and will never do anything to change gun violence in America
I mean, it used to be an actual gun. Then platforms changed it to a water gun because I guess that does something.
Yeah, he actually kind of fixed this one…
Yeah apple changed it and it’s been a mess for years.
I don’t actually care that it’s a gun, I just want it to mean the same thing on all platforms.
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Eh, as others say that emoji has a bit of a history. That said, I very much expect he’ll remove all the “DEI emojis” (aka literally any shade who isn’t white or classic yellow)
Just yellow is fine, it was fine, it was a single icon that was still representative of all IMO
I feel the same way. It should be a skin tone that nobody on earth actually has. Equally exclusionary across the board equals inclusion automatically and then you don’t have to worry about forgetting anyone.
I explicitly choose yellow when it tries to get me to pick one because why the fuck should my emoji convey race when it doesn’t need to?
We’re all simpsons yellow.
well, except for abu maybe.
Please come back to this comment in a few years to let me know if my prediction is correct and he’s removed all the pride flags
Yeah. Years. Not days.
…good point :P
I’m sure he’ll change it back once someone uses it to threaten his ego.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
