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I suspect that the stems from certain groups taking objection to the only mushroom representation being one that prominently necessarily contains psychoactive c
by jadbox 3y ago
I suspect that the stems from certain groups taking objection to the only mushroom representation being one that prominently necessarily contains psychoactive compounds. Ofc there's many psychoactive brown mushrooms, but there is more ambiguity if it's just mushroom food. Anyone else have more context?
- pxc 3y agoInterestingly, the example glyph provided in the original proposal for the mushroom emoji doesn't include any of those visual features. It's colorless, of course, but it also doesn't include any of those big dots. The whole fly amanita style is just a matter of fontmakers' convention. I didn't know the Unicode consortium considered that kind of thing its problem, but I guess it makes sense since it's (more or less?) comprised of all the big emoji font makers.
- Avamander 3y agoRed mushrooms are often just poisonous, so the common red with white dots version didn't work well in any food-related context.