Elon Musk has made a lot of changes to the platform formerly known as Twitter. Most notably, he dropped the “X” from Twitter’s name. He completely removed any sense of verification. And Musk’s new content policies on X basically mean you can do just about anything on the platform.
Just last week, another change was made to X that seems to have gone unnoticed.
X has removed the “water gun” emoji, which was depicted as a colorful, harmless-looking children’s toy, and replaced it with one depicting an actual gun.
Replace the water gun emoji with a gun emoji with X
The announcement was first made on X by company employee @yacineMTB.
“According to an update posted on X.com, the gun emoji has been reverted back to its original form, the M1911,” an X employee said. post Alongside the “Pepe the Frog” meme Comparison A water gun emoji and a gun emoji.
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The Verge Noticed Twitter announced the change on Tuesday, noting at the time that Twitter first introduced the water gun emoji in 2018. The image of a gun was the emoji’s original depiction as decided upon by the Unicode Consortium, the body that essentially governs the introduction of new emoji.
In 2016, apple The decision was made to replace the gun emoji with a water gun emoji, which has a more familiar image. GoogleFacebook, Microsoftand Twitter soon followed suit. As many tech companies made the change to a water gun, the Unicode Consortium eventually officially updated the gun emoji to a water gun emoji.
On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that X had reverted to the gun emoji on its website.
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“Fixed on web, will fix rendering on mobile soon!” Elon Musk Said In response to an emoji announcement.
For now, it appears X is the only platform making this change, with the toy water gun emoji still appearing on other popular online platforms.
