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

    • AmericaDeserved711 [any]
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      3 months ago

      y'know what you're right 🏴‍☠️🦜

      retvrn to blunderbuss, it definitely better than the super-soaker they changed to for some reason

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        I think it's solid. Gets the point across without taking itself too seriously.