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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sauce: https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-15.0.3/pistol

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it used to be an actual gun. Then platforms changed it to a water gun because I guess that does something.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

Yeah, he actually kind of fixed this one...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Yeah apple changed it and it's been a mess for years.

I don't actually care that it's a gun, I just want it to mean the same thing on all platforms.