Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.
The company hasn’t explained the change, but it feels on-brand for Elon Musk’s social network. Twitter originally switched its emoji to display a water gun in 2018, following others like Google and Facebook. (Apple made the switch in 2016; Microsoft was a brief hold-out.)
Eventually, the Unicode Consortium, which decides which emoji get made in the first place, followed the platforms’ lead and officially renamed the pistol emoji as “water pistol”…
You’ll only see the gun if you’re looking at X on the web — as of this writing, it doesn’t appear to have updated in mobile versions of the app, though that’s apparently on its way at some point.
— Wes Davis in X Replaced the Water Pistol Emoji With a Regular Gun, for Some Reason
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as an actual firearm.
This significantly diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from pistol to water gun from 2016 to 2018.
🔗 https://t.co/GUjCHSNSkJ pic.twitter.com/MxjNfuBdp6
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 23, 2024
You people have too much time on your hands and worry about the wrong things.
“You people have too much time on your hands and worry about the wrong things.”
The change back sends a very strong message to the fascists, and I’m damn pleased to see it happen.
One of the reasons mega-millionaire Elon Musk bought Twitter in the first place was his push-back on ‘Woke’ bullshit like that…
The left is feeble and the picture is a clear illustration. I use to meet a friend(70+ years old) for coffee several times a week until one day over coffee I placed a 9mm round on the table for illustration purposes and he freaked out and I have not seen him since. He screamed that the round on the table had to be some sort of a security violation. I was surprised that at his age he was so feeble.
Moral: Don’t allow age to be an indication of POTG status.
“He screamed that the round on the table had to be some sort of a security violation. I was surprised that at his age he was so feeble.”
That’s the power of propaganda, it’s not rooted in simple common sense…
With all of the issues currently orbiting around gun rights…and this silly crap is what Grace and SNW decides is important enough to report on?
It’s called ‘comic relief’.
Get over yourself!
Shhhh….grown-ups are talking