• Waterpistol Takeover
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no comment.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-29/gun-emoji-replaced-with-toy-water-pistol-across-platforms/9708406
I think this is pretty silly, but really its hardly something to get worked up over imo. I just don't see how any one can have the energy to get mad over an emoji change. Just shrug and move on.
I feel so much safer now that the gun icon is gone 👌😂🔫
congratulations we have solved mass shootings
This is the catalyst that will destroy all civilization as we know it. The left are too far gone and are now censoring emojis. How can we expect to survive in this strict anti-gun dystopia? It's honestly very difficult for me to see any issue with this.
I've switched over to the knife emote when I threat to kill myself nowadays. Take that!
Yeah, getting worked up over it is silly, but I still find it inane that companies feel the need to preempt any media outrage over a drawn image of a pistol. The fact that it's a point of controversy is sorta mind boggling.
If we pretend like guns don't exist it will fit everything. Quick, everyone, replace the mental image of an AR-15 with a NERF Longstrike, it'll make the bullets bounce off when a shooter walks in!
How embarrassing. I can't really think of anything else to say, it's just embarrassing.
You're right - taken in isolation it's nothing lose sleep over, albeit silly and unnecessary. But that isn't the point. What is concerning to people is that it's a trend, and it is gaining momentum. This is not the first, the last or the most stupid such case, either.
hey guys maybe if we forget guns exist there'll be no more mass shootings
🔫 Come at me bitches
🔪 they fucked up im comin to get em
💣 ahaha come and get me fuckers 💣
Just man up and grab a water pistol next time you're trying to kill yourself.
This is some Demolition Man level PC.
what's the point?
The huge outrage at this sort of stupid shit is as funny and stupid as the stupid shit itself
I knew the left would take our guns!!!
Just do what I do and send massive pictures of guns to people. https://www.gunsamerica.com/userimages/101836/920698819/wm_1096365.jpg no emoji could ever do this iron any justice
Little things like this are what helped Trump win the election
this is a lock-step emoji problem https://i.imgur.com/5jbLoX5.png 🤦 🔫 if i was an apple user sending this, it'd be a water pistol and everything is fine if i am a microsoft user though, its a real gun because emoji meanings depend on intent, even though the unicode description of "U+1F52B" was originally a pistol, the moment apple (the biggest mobile OS by far in terms of emoji usage) switched to a water pistol, everyone had to quickly follow otherwise risk changing the intent of communication based on the recipient's OS
Which is utterly stupid. It's like if one English speaking country decided the word "kill" meant hug, and then every other country had to adapt to it.
apart from the fact it's more like 80% of the english userbase decided that "pistol" was vaguely defined and got ahead of the PR nightmare
Pistol is only vague if you intentionally make it vague, like the companies above did. 🔫 is a pistol on my computer, and a water gun on my iphone. Incredible job, Apple.
the unicode description was never clearly defined as "lethal gun"
What a trite gesture.
No but type Pistol into any search engine, and tell me what you get back. You get a fuckin' pistol.
I guess it's back to ascii again. ︻╦╤─
I think this kind of bubble wrap shit is stupid. I don't think it's the end of society or anything but why have a gun emoji in the first place if we're just going to censor it? Picture me as Clint Eastwood on his porch, sneering over a mug of coffee, in Gran Torino.
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