X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

the X engineer responsible for the change ... stated that this design is "not the final design (going to make it look more badass)"

incidentally this engineer is a fascist weeb who complains about gay characters in TV shows and bragged about getting trans flags removed from a grocery store by leaving a negative google review

  • edge [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, making it a water gun was some over sensitive shit. And it’s just completely out of spec as Unicode intends for it to be a hand gun.

    Apple just decided they didn’t like that emoji and substituted their own. Apparently they later pressured Unicode not to add a rifle emoji.