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This won’t be a problem much longer: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-redesign/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-
by arrrg 8y ago
This won’t be a problem much longer: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-redesign/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-...
Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make change …
- anc84 8y agoSadly dumbed down to waterpistol instead of what it should be, a "pistol".
- Klover 8y agoShowing a revolver is not a display of extreme intellect, so it cannot really be dumbed down. It also shouldn't be sadly, as it's an emoji.
- anc84 8y agoWhat do you mean? This symbol was change in its meaning, I find that sad.
- madeofpalk 8y agoIt might be a sad decision to make, but nothing was 'dumbed down'. IMHO the 'correct' solution, if you want to remove the handgun picture is to remove it from the emoji keyboard (and possibly refuse to render it) and introduce a new water pistol emoji.
- Asooka 8y agoI'm pretty sure users will just learn to interpret it as a pistol, rather than water gun. Same like how the eggplant emoji means "penis" now.
- wild_preference 8y agoBesides, a small watergun graphic is just an often futuristic looking gun with neon colors. Hardly something that suddenly is unambiguously not a killing device.
- leni536 8y agoHow is this not a problem anymore? The Unicode standard spells out 'PISTOL'. Not 'WATER GUN'. They are just collectively not compliant to the standard. Why don't they just introduce 'WATER GUN' as a brand new code point and remove 'PISTOL' from their chat apps' emoji selection?