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Lemminary@lemmy.world to Political Weirdos @lemmy.world ·
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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did

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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did

Lemminary@lemmy.world to Political Weirdos @lemmy.world ·
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Sauce: https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-15.0.3/pistol

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  • Nate@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    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

  • Arbiter@lemmy.world
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    I mean, it used to be an actual gun. Then platforms changed it to a water gun because I guess that does something.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, he actually kind of fixed this one…

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

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    (Parkland school shooting was in 2018)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji#Controversy_and_glyph_changes

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      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.

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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)

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      Just yellow is fine, it was fine, it was a single icon that was still representative of all IMO

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