X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm
X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm
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
Our emotes are still eons beyond their childish capabilities
Revolver Chavocelot
The ruling class caring about the most important thing as always.
People in 2024, barely able to afford rent: "Healthcare pls😞"
Wealthy elites: "Ummmm I changed an emoji, isn't that badass?🤓"
Personally I liked the alien laser pistol that Microsoft had the best, bring that one back.
tbf this was a dumb change that corporations did in order to pretend that they cared about gun violence.
Good?
You should be able to use gun emoji for actionable threats.
this is X we're talking about so you can imagine which kinds of threats will be permitted and which ones won't
I genuinely support this
I don't have strong feelings either way, the water pistol is a bit silly but this particular decision was made as an anti-woke measure by fascist tech bros who just wanna point the gun emoji at the pride flag again
curiously this chud says the emoji was "returned back into its rightful form: an m1911" when it never was an M1911 in the first place, it used to be a revolver
Yeah, making it a water gun was some over sensitive shit. And it’s just completely out of spec as Unicode intends for it to be a hand gun.
Apple just decided they didn’t like that emoji and substituted their own. Apparently they later pressured Unicode not to add a rifle emoji.
I remember when every company changed the emotes to the water gun. Everyone made fun of them.
Guns should be treated the same way cigarettes are. If you want to reduce their use, you must make them uncool. Branding, packaging and the like should all be disallowed. Advertising should be disallowed. They shouldn't be in the emojis. Their form should also be limited so that "tacticool" shit is effectively disallowed and guns get treated more like a tool.
Essentially do the same shit we did to smoking.
🚬🔫
Did that work tho? Like I don't smoke but it's still pretty cool. I feel like what will really end smoking is vapes and other better technology.
2001 and 2002 were the years that the EU brought in bans on smoking advertisements, the requirement for cigarette packets to be plain packaging, and the requirement for large visible health warnings on the packets.
This is just one country but this sudden drop in usage played out identically in all EU countries that were required to carry out the changes. This initially started with plain white packaging but these days they look like this:
Do not underestimate the effects of branding and brand emotions. Marketers are are obsessed with branding for a reason.
leftists should have guns and gun emojis while chuds should have water pistols and water pistol emojis
The solution is gun emoji should have a hamsic
or nothingI know you're not sleeping on the king slayer.
Is that emoji an actual AK-47 or is it an akm? I'm really bad at telling the difference.
From a cursory zoom, I think the receiver is milled instead of stamped, so probably 47 over M or it's some Chinese Type-Whatever produced in between the AK-47 and AKM, but I could definitely be wrong
Finally a good change
They also stated that this design is "not the final design (going to make it look more badass)".
Not enough people talking about this. How much you wanna bet that this nerd is gonna make the 1911 super "tacticool" and shitty looking?
The ultimate form of gun emoji:
oh god they're gonna put a Punisher skull on it
I thought it was a zapp brannigan sci fi gun, not a water pistol, lol
"Kif, I've acquired Twitter. Alert the men."
I can hear it in my head
I trust groypers with firearms.
better than trusting them with couches
The emoji on their article displayed as a revolver. Also lol at m1911 boomer ass museum gun.
haha yeah who would want to own a boomer gun
Bring back the j-frame!
Add the rifle emoji and have it be a 30-30!
Wrong reasons but right decision regardless. Changing to a water pistol does nothing against gun violence and a gun is a pretty common and universal symbol that should be represented among a collection of symbols covering, well, common items you might want to symbolise. In any case, arm the proletariat etc etc
