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

  • Yor [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    any discourse over this is so deeply silly lol

    • AmericaDeserved711 [any]
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      4 months ago

      yeah it's not that serious but I do find our modern hieroglyphics somewhat fascinating

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        I recently read that that's not how hieroglyphs worked

        • HumongousChungus [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          𓅃𓉔𓅂𓂋𓅂𓐍𓂧𓇋𓐍𓇌𓅱𓅲𓐍𓂋𓅂𓄿𓂧𓐍𓏏𓉔𓄿𓏏?