Has there ever been a case where Apple HASN'T started a trend, only to be laughed at and then inevitably followed by Microsoft/Samsung/Google in the next year or two? God that must piss off the anti-apple circlejerk SO MUCH!
Edit: 1 giant vs. 3 giants doesnโt really seem fair either
I remember the search functions and widgets being touted in osx(10.4?), where they made a shirt that said "redmond start your copiers".
I was using a beta of vista at the time that had all this crap.
Additionally, microsoft added tablet functionality a long time before apple wanted anything to do with it, and apple certainly didnt invent the gui, they just took it from xerox
Oh, they also didnt invent an mp3 player with a hard disk either.
Apple is good at interfaces, user experience, and marketing. They are not always first.
Right. Bill Gates came out with a tablet pc prototype that was basically an iPad in like 2002 and nobody cared. In like 2010 Apple released the iPad and everybody was like "omg Steve Jobs is a genius!".
Apple makes good products sometimes, but I hate when people worship them like some sort of gods.
Tweenk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:40:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I used one of these early tablet PCs, the HP Compaq TC1100. The biggest problem with it was that the Windows XP interface was an extreme pain to use without the keyboard. Practically nothing was designed for pen/touch input. The device did not have a touchscreen - it had a digitizer, so you had to use the special Wacom stylus to do anything.
Tablet PC did not succeed because it was an attempt to shoehorn laptop software designed for mice and keyboards onto a new form factor that had neither. Apple at least recognized that this is not going to work and an entire new ecosystem of touch-friendly apps has to be built from scratch.
Innotek ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:18:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well how about the time Microsoft released the surface and pencil, Apple talked a whole bunch about how the stylus was dead. Then they went dark for awhile. Then they removed the air and put everything behind the iPad Pro. I mean donโt get me wrong, they have great stuff (typing this on an iPhone), but all of these companies are wired to shit on each other at every opportunity.
Plus, when you miss the market completely, you have to find a way to reframe the discussion so you look like youโre innovating when youโre only catching up.
Shawnj2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Really the stylus for the iPad now is for note taking with handwriting and drawing, both of which are useful tablet things that are near-impossible to do well without a stylus.
Innotek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:00 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Which is exactly what Microsoft released two years prior.
laxt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:54:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The mp3 player.
The iPod was not the first portable mp3 player. In fact, to give you an idea of where technology around mp3s were when the iPod came out, my friend had a car stereo that played data discs with mp3s. So instead of 12 songs on a disc, you'd have 300, and yes there was an interface to browse directories. Apple didn't invent the mp3, despite what the hype would like you to believe. They made a damn good mp3 player, but that's about as innovative as Sony with the Walkman. Did Apple steal any ideas from Sony with the iPod? Of course not! Did Apple continue any "trend" that was previously dominated by Sony? Of course not. But assumptions like your's is exactly why there's any "anti-apple circlejerk". Apple consumers are notoriously and openly fond of their own farts, so to speak. You do it to yourselves.
Steve Jobs spent the money Apple received from Microsoft to avoid a monopoly on advertising the iPod in such a way it appealed to Women. And it worked.
There were better devices. Creative had a better device. Hell, the Zune was phenomenal compared the iPod, especially in terms of sync software, but the iPod became the next Bandaid, Kleenex, and Nintendo to mom's and here we are.
The Zune had a โbuy from FM featureโ. It had a built in radio that you could tag a song, buy it directly on the device, and then download it on the player using WiFi. All back in 2008.
I never got one since my media was all iTunes, but the Zune had a bunch of nice features that were way ahead of Apple at the time. Too bad Microsoftโs marketing sucked.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:53:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Are you kidding? That's the reason I hate Apple. They make these shit decisions, and every other tech company follows them for some reason. There's no reason Android phones shouldn't have a headphone jack or physical keyboards anymore. The UI design is garbage. It's all because of Apple. Yes I blame Google and Microsoft too.
635nM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
or physical keyboards anymore
I agreed with most of your post, but I can't agree with this part. Maybe for business phones only, sure. But why pay for two phones for your workers when you can just give them one that does everything acceptably well, even if it's not great at typing? Unless you have to compose more than a couple of emails a day, I can't see the benefits conferred by a physical keyboard outweighing the drawbacks anymore.
Maybe I'd change my mind if I was a business executive.
Agree completely on the headphone jack and the batteries and SD slots and everything else, though (even though you didn't mention them).
Between voice to text and swipe "typing" I can't imagine going back to a phone with a physical keyboard. If I need to write something long enough that those two technologies aren't sufficient, I'll use a computer with a full sized keyboard.
The thing is, they shouldn't be doing this for emoji. They are breaking standards. Same thing when they added a whole bunch of modifiers to the emoji set and forced the Unicode Consortium to scramble to build a standard.
It's very literally the same as if they invented new letters and made them included on the apple keyboard instead of the normal A-Z
Yet everyone followed suit. Maybe it was just a good idea not to have an inherently violent, even lethal thing, which is illegal/restricted virtually everywhere except some parts of the US by the way, as an emoji?
Someone has to break standards to induce change, and it's not at all like inventing new letters.. our world doesn't revolve (pun not intended) around having a unified way to express, what, a gun in emoji form? Come on now.
I'm not even talking about the bomb emoji, Apple does this stuff all the time. They gave a big middle finger to the SMS standard by adding "reactions" to them, told the Unicode Consortium approval process to go fuck themselves and added a whole bunch of skin tones instead of waiting for the Consortium to publish the standard for it (which was coming literal weeks later and had to be redefined). The do it with chargers, chat protocols . . .basically everything breaks when you look at their stuff with anything besides an iphone
635nM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:31 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's always annoyed me that even now, in the heady days of near-instant wireless file transfers and cloud storage, you still can't conveniently get an iphone and android to cooperate enough to send photos wirelessly between each other.
Seriously. I use an iPhone and love using AirDrop between Macs and iPhones a lot, but god I wish there was some sort of an open AirDrop where I could send stuff to Windows PCs and Android devices too.
(AirDrop reliability could use some work too lol, like ugh theyโre in my contacts and theyโre standing a foot away from me, just work dammit)
The apple circlejerk is my biggest pet peeve on reddit, it's at "justin beiber bad" levels of cliche public enemy, except without the eventual self awareness.
They're usually laughed at by the other three because they had done it a few years earlier. Can't remember the exact feature, but a few years ago Apple were making a big deal about a new iPhone feature that Androids had already had for a few years. It happened every time a new iPhone comes out, at least one of the selling points has been on other phones since the last iPhone was released.
Apple aren't innovative, they just take the new things from the previous few years and add them to the iPhone with flashy marketing.
The problem is that half of us hate these trends and wish companies would break away from following the Apple style so much, for example I'd simply deal a lot of negative points about any particular phone if it has the 3.5mm jack, a micro sdcard slot and a physical keyboard because of my usage habits on a phone. I don't have a problem with Apple, I have a problem with their influence which partially comes from their marketing. (But more so comes from companies not realising that simply copying the trends isn't going to guarantee success and may even bring harm if it removes the unique features/reasons that company had a customer base.)
I'm also glad that OS X style GUIs haven't taken off in the PC world, each to their own as it always is with UIs and individual workflows but as someone who happily uses Linux and no other OS on their personal PC I honestly find it headache inducing and not intuitive at all.
Nah, I dislike that layout. I'm going to end up getting one of these more than likely. I had the HTC Dream and sliders are great for web browsing, chatting and gaming or anything else that benefits from a landscape layout and requires a lot of input. It's literally like using a mini desktop or laptop.
Sangui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can you name a feature that they were first to market with? Because I quite honestly can't. They've just got a following like Trumps that will believe whatever bullshit they put out and defend the lies to the ground.
And I do mean a feature, not something useless like changing an emoji.
Funny enough Apple was not breaking any wheel but actually somewhat conforming to it. They changed from the gun emoji after a wave of shootings in the US. Only a matter of time until The Mothers Alliance for Children Being Safe and in Bed by 7 publishes an independent unreviewed study linking the frequency of gun emojis posted on facebook with the likelihood that they will shoot someone.
Yeah, the way politics gets laundered through sociology is absurd.
"We did a n=300 mechanical turk study with biased questions that found using a gun emoji with a real-looking gun means you're 5,000% more likely to murder your family on a weekday south of the Mason-Dixon line."
Buzzfeed article the next day: "gun emoji linked to alt-right"
If I know anything about something, and I think I do. Then the rise of school shooting is around the same time we started seeing laser and squirt guns in emojis instead of normal guns...
Which is concrete Proof! That emojis kill children!!
It's sad but true. Science doesn't seem to be about laws or principles anymore it's just about what test proved you right. Not a great way of finding the truth unfortunately
Sorry that is not the message I intended to convey, nor is it a view I hold. Way too vague with what I wrote, I only mean some of the social sciences coming out in the past decade or so. They seem to be driven by case studies finding their own theories right, rather than using those findings to derive governing laws and principles of the field. I'm finding this happening specifically in fields like Grievance Studies but I'm sure you are aware of the big hoax exposing that dumpster fire. Not sure how you can even call that science honestly, nothing about that is scientific.
There is an excellent article on the SF MOMA website about exactly this topic, The Absolute Denial of ๐ฉ. I'll try to pull representative quotes, but it's short and really worth reading.
If emoji are meant to be shorthand for an object, feeling, or emotion, thatโs an incredibly narrow spectrum of representations users have at their disposal, and places a huge responsibility on the software companies to reliably depict the intent of the Unicode Consortium.
And what if software companies decide it is not in their best interest to reliably depict this intent?
...
The fact that until recently the word โshitโ appeared in print as sโ has nothing to do with moral considerations. You canโt claim that shit is immoral, after all! The objection to shit is a metaphysical one...It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch."
Nah there was a lot of pro gun control lobby groups advocating for it. They still are actually. I believe it has at least been requested that Apple removes guns (both the water gun and the finger guns) from the menu altogether. Something like โDisarm All iPhonesโ or something
HenMeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That shows character of shooters, not influence of the emoji. If anyone believes having access to a gun emoji will turn you into a shooter, they're an idiot.
LG always does their own thing, trust me. Trying to root & custom ROM my G5 was a rollercoaster... Also I made some modifications so the gun is always displayed as a revolver for me. At least I can see without the bullshit they force upon you. Also looks a bit shit when you send a headshot emoji combination to your pal and you are headshotting with a watergun.
Classic Microsoft. Had a badass phone and UI based on natural gestures and reachability, succumbed to the peer pressure of universal hamburger menu UX, now we here.
In japan the circle button is/was used to be the select button and X be the cancel button, this was in line with the SNES at the time, but american devs didn't like that, so in the US the X to select layout became the norm and Microsoft used the same layout in 2001
DetN8 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:30:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a few games like that and it was bonkers. Glyph-wise, "X " feels like cancel, and it was consistent with Nintendo. Now I have an Xbox and a Switch and my inability to switch between them easily makes me feel old and sad.
I mean more like a rhetorical โwhy?!โ But thank you for your answer. I understand why they thought this makes sense, but at the same time โ three Nintendo systems had already sold great numbers in the US by the time they made the XBOX. Also...did they not consider just โcoming up with something different?โ It makes no sense to rip off the other guys and do it wrong.
Labubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Labubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, 1 through 4 can definitely be very clunky by today's standards (looking at 2 and 3's pressure sensitive hold ups), but they were absolutely stunning at release...I thought GZ & V was pretty fluid though, but when it comes to MGS I'm definitely biased, 1 was the first time I realized games could be better than movies, 3 is a classic, and 2, Twin Snakes, 4, and 5 were 'buy a console for this' games for me (PS2, Gamecube, PS3 and 4) haha
MGSV ground zeroes was my first taste of metal gear, and goddamn was it great.
Felt like playing all the best parts of splinter cell in a neat package.
frezor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:59 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because when you switch platforms, youโll feel awkward and guilty. Youโll search your soul and realize the error of your ways and return to your one true love.
I use mainly Nintendo controllers, so when I got my Steam controller (which uses XBox layout), it drove me crazy to no end that the A button was where the B button should be
I don't recall how to get to it but there is a menu for setting up some global/out of game stuff for the controller and if it was possible I would imagine it would be there. This is also the section where you can setup hotkey stuff.
IIRC when the first Xbox came out Nintendo didn't have a 4 button layout so Sega was the only one they could follow (other than Playstation but Playstation uses shapes rather than letters).
Zune was the best mp3 palyer on the market but because the iPod so thoroughly dominated the market and it had a goofy name it was written off as a joke.
๐ your ๐ถ๐ผ or theyโll get ๐คข and ๐คฎ all over the ๐
Pannuba ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:36:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"We've only got water guns" ๐๐๐ฏ๐
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:06:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In the vein of emojis being changed for the purpose of manipulating discourse and ultimately thought I bet I could get reddit and twitter to start banning emojis by teaching the alt right to use them for hieroglyphic meme purposes, either in the style shown there or in developing purely hieroglyphics.
I could probably make the New york times and get reddit, twitter and facebook to change their emoji policies with just these emojis: ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐จ๐โโ๏ธ๐ถ๐ฟ๐คฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฟโฝ๏ธ๐ฟโก๏ธ in no particular order.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:32:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
1 hilarious 2020 election season against IRL shootings over "emoji violence"
Pannuba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a plan, just like Pepe and ๐. I would add ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผ๐จ๐ปโ๐ค๐จ๐ปโ๐พ and of course, ๐คก๐.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot: ๐ฐ๐ธโ๏ธ๐ซ๐ฃ๐ช๐กโ๏ธ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ท๐ฉ๐ฝ๐ธ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐บ๐โช๏ธ๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ค
Oh, I missed the part where you were a sad, bitter person that thinks they're much more clever than they really are.
I'm sorry about the fact that no one finds you interesting in real life, so you have to spin nonsense online in order to feel some sort of validation from an interaction. I'm sure you'll find help someday. Check in the bottom of a rifle barrel!
Yea, i'm on "Sync" (third party Reddit client) on Android, and i just see a box with an X in it (the default OS placeholder for an unknown character, same purpose as your black box)
Chibils ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm using the Reddit is Fun app, so maybe that's the difference. It usually shows the X rectangle for iOS emojis that I don't have. Damn apple with their elitist emojis!
No i don't think thats really the last one, there is one after that, that isn't showing up for people. Unless it goes: Bomb with fuze followed by a stick of Dynamite (because i see syringe followed by bomb just fine, and im pretty sure the mario style cartoon bomb is interchangeable with the stick of Dynamite on some systems)? Theres a box with an X through it (OS placeholder for 'unknown character') after the bomb for me, on 'Sync' reddit client on Android. Thats what people are asking about
Although, if someone was to threaten me, wielding a blunderbuss, I wouldn't exactly take my chances, I'd bet that getting hit with one of those will shred you real good
Same thing with a sword, really. Both are equally terrifying if someone is actually coming at you with either one. Much less both. And I don't think we're the first people to debate this. I bet people sat around in taverns hundreds of years ago discussing this exact scenario...
MPFuzz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:16:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember getting a metal and wood flint lock pistol from Disneyland's POTC store. Now they don't even sell any kind of gun at Disneyland anymore, not even Buzz Lightyear's goofy ray gun.
Maybe not wood and metal, but you can definitely still buy toy swords, plastic flint locks, lightsabers, blasters, classic ray guns, etc. all over Disneyland
MPFuzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The used to, but not anymore. They still have plastic swords, but everything gun related is gone.
so stupid, how can any kid even have a decent pirate/adventure fantasy without a gun its just stupid to even pretend. Jack Sparrow has fucking guns and so does everyone else but let a kid pretend hes a pirate but he has to pretend he has a gun too but he has a sword but its clearly fake and now the kid doesn't enjoy pirates anymore.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 16:47:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It looks like a flintlock blunderbuss with the flared tip. Flintlock doesnโt mean pistol, itโs just the mechanism that delivers sparks to the powder.
You could have a flintlock blunderbuss. You could have a matchlock blunderbuss. You could have a percussion cap blunderbuss. Probably best not to try and precisely identify what the make and model of a doodle is, but if someone put a ๐ซ to my head, then I would say that the bell shaped muzzle does most closely resemble a blunderbuss.
Unfortunately, Google doesn't care about how great their old emoji were.. it's all about conforming to the awful standards set by Apple like everyone else...
I get the argument for consistency across platforms, but Google's blob emojis had so much more emotion and were so much more readable than the new ones.
The fencer emoji is weird. Dressed like a foilist. Bell-guard like an epee. Swinging the blade like a saber. It's almost like it's a mix of all threโohhhhhhhh.
Ah shit, you're right. I forgot that they added the gun later. I thought I remembered that they added when they switched from the blob emojis in 8.0, but they only switched the gun in 9.0 after the new round emojis had been implemented.
Pannuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just the messages app? Could be an old version, for instance I see Apple emojis only on WhatsApp.
VitQ ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:09:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
legitimate legal concerns about when the use of the gun emoji could/should be interpreted as a legitimate threat of violence
Well yeah, it can be used as a threat of violence, it's a fricking gun image. It's still the user making the threat, not the company. If I can send images to anyone then I can send them one that implies a threat as well.
There's so much crap companies do to just stay out of it. They would rather change to a toy gun than have to hire lawyers to win a lawsuit against some dumbass suing a large company hoping on a settlement.
I agree. If a man followed by a gun amoji is a violent threat that can get companies in trouble, then they better hurry up and remove the K Y and S keys from keyboard before another person types "kys"
One where a 17-year-old in New York was charged with making a terrorist threat on his Facebook page after posting a policeman emoji, and three guns pointing towards it.
Heโs saying if heโs allowed to send images then he is fee to send an images that implies a threat. Not an emoji idiot. Heโs saying those donโt imply a threat by themselves, itโs the sender that has to make the threat with it. And the sender is free to use any other means to make that threat anyway so why ban emojis. Itโs like as soon as you read the part you didnโt like you blocked out everything else. Go back to talking about fucking animals or whatever you do lol.
But changing the emoji set creates more ambiguity because emoji sets only affect how the device they're installed on displays the character.
If a gun emoji can be a threat, isn't it a problem if a user can accidentally send one on an invitation to a pool party? And if someone is actually threatening your user with gun violence, isn't that probably something you should accurately communicate to them?
I would think so. And you would think adding ambiguity to a message on a comms service would be more of a liability issue for the company than simply allowing free speech. But IANAL so whatever.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:35:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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shoe788 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:26:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pointing toy guns at the cop is less threatening? Waterguns can be full of acid
lol it never ceases to amaze me when redditors pull the ole ridiculously contrived scenario as a sort of legal stump that no judge/court could ever get past
a harmless pillow could actually be a bag filled with anthrax and bombs! checkmate lawyers!
when redditors pull the ole ridiculously contrived scenario
Give me a break. Who is really presenting a ridiculously contrived scenario? I think that the vast majority of people understand that the image of the emoji isn't actually changing the meaning of the message. The only people who believe this are idiots who put too much emphasis on symbolism.
shoe788 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think that the vast majority of people understand that the image of the emoji isn't actually changing the meaning of the message.
that girl is so hot.๐คข๐
that girl is so hot.๐๐ฆ
you're telling me both of these should be interpreted the same way
No, I mean that changing the look of the gun isn't going to change the meaning of the threat.
Also, let's not forget that there's still a keyboard on the phone and if the person wanted to make a threat they could simply type it out. Changing the look of the gun isn't changing anything.
shoe788 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're misunderstanding the change by thinking it's meant to remove someone's ability to make a threat. It's only meant to remove ambiguity from a threat as emojis are not literal written words and often require much more interpretation and context
I just don't see how it fixes the issue. Of course it isn't a gun, but it used to be. People still use it for the same purpose because there's no alternative.
shoe788 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:46:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
it doesnt fix gun vionlence obviously. It wasnt meant to. It does clear up a lot of ambiguity about people making legitimate threats though
You do realize that acid attacks are on the rise, right? I was joking, but the pillow comparison is pretty weak unless it is actually happening in real life, and often (like acid attacks are)
grocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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shoe788 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
The comment you responded to was talking about a grand jury determining whether or not the gun emoji constituted a legal threat to police.
Idk where the "joke" is in your comment. Seems to me like you're making an argument
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:44:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Grand jury "failed" to indict? They didn't indict because they aren't supposed to guess at criminal intent, and people are supposed to be presumed innocent of all charges until proven guilty. An emoji gun pointed and an emoji cop? That is proof of absolutely nothing.
I know cops will complain about it, but they're also the dipshits that choose that job of their own free will, whine about people needing to respect them as though their shiny little badge implies they are somehow above the law or have power, and complain about their job being dangerous when the FBI's UCR shows that it becomes safer every year.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:45:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
In the United States, assault has to be apprehension of imminent harm. And the victim has to be aware of it. Nothing you just listed is assault. Saying to someone's face I'll come back here and shoot you tomorrow is not even assault in the US, as its not imminent. Hell, a New York grand jury didn't even convict the guy you're talking about for assault.
Replace them with a water gun and it becomes much more of a grey area as nobody could reasonably assume the gun was real,
This is nonsense. An emoji of a cartoon revolver is no more real than the emoji of a cartoon water pistol.
Also, you have cartoon emojis of other things that don't even exist, such as sci-fi laser guns and aliens.
What are you going to do, claim that me sending you this represents a threat that I'm planning to shoot an intercontinental ballistic missile at you with a alien on board?
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People are just looking for things to be offended about. They want to be too symbolic about everything to justify being offended.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 18:36:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
You still seem to be putting too much emphasis on symbolic gestures.
I think if you sent a cop a message with a bunch of "water pistols" pointing at a pig's head, the police would still take it every bit as seriously as if you used the older gun emoji. They still mean the same thing.
Fallacy fallacy you guys, see it right here! Also, failed to grasp a basic point. You're fine with censorship of one sort (emoji) and I asked if you'd be fine with the same censorship on text rather than emoji. Same concept, different medium.
They don't get to make a choice what they're "associated" with as a communication platform, any more than AT&T should restrict your phone service if you make unacceptable speech.
It's that simple.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:57:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Perhaps lots of people are provided with inadequate educations precisely because the state would prefer a stupid obedient proletariat to an educated and revolutionary constituency.
So... Does this put you in a state of fear of imminent harm?
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Should any image of something dangerous be censored? At what point are you crossing a line and limiting speech in the interest of a false sense of security?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It's so simple: they are a comms platform and have no right or obligation regarding filtering or controlling speech.
It's too bad you aren't able to understand simple things and instead spout the fallacy fallacy and try to justify your terrible argument by just repeating it and proclaiming it simple.
I hear letters are used to assault people as well yet most keyboards are COVERED with them, ready to be used for assault.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I also hear text has a bit of nuance. We're a bit far from emoji's becoming a new heiroglyphics, so lets simmer down on banning eggplants and such please.
Emojis are a method of communication. Albeit a silly one, but still.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, but they are being ridiculously policed...and I find it to be an empty PR stunt to make people think they actually give a shit about these things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Assault to most people = getting punched in the face.
Nah fam. That's battery.
Talk shit = Assault
Get hit = Battery
Jura52 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sup. send me 10 bricks of gold over USPS right now.
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From a design perspective, if your product is either 1) being misinterpreted by authorities as being harmful or 2) actually being used to do harm, then you have a responsibility to attempt to address that ambiguity.
I strongly disagree with this statement for a couple of reasons.
As you said, it is being misinterpreted. By definition the mistake is on their part. You are in no way responsible for someone else's mistakes.
Even with the plastic water gun emoji, the police are still going to charge people with threats if they make a similar post with water guns. That's because you're still representing the same thing.
If we're gonna go ahead and try and ban ambiguous communication (lol) Half the publishers should have reverted the gun emoji so no one knows which way it's facing.
So... How would this not be construed the same way?
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Preventing people from making undesired speech is not Google's job (or Apple, Msft, etc). The government is also not supposed to prevent people from making speech, they can only punish speech intended to incite violence.
But anyone can already make threats of violence on Facebook or other social media with words. The ability to also make threats of violence with emojis changes nothing. The only reason to change gun emojis is to avoid the negative PR from a possible moral panic.
Yes it's really sad that those Unicode Gremiums are full of US people. We get highly limited by their beliefs and we still miss all body parts (beside maybe the nose and ears) and many more. Why not have both guns, a real one, a shotgun and maybe even a toy gun. There are also twenty versions of family types and skin colors, why limit the variety there.
In general: It's a sad joke that US still keeps pushing its nippel free and sex taboo propaganda on the entire world with it large companies. Meanwhile other countries have much stricter violence laws and they learned to adapt to the new world. Time for US to follow regarding the others things.
The actual reason is that they're trying to eliminate guns from the public space to make them less socially acceptable. You're watching newspeak be created right before your eyes.
so if I type a terrorist threat on a facebook page we should blame who made the comment font or the keyboard firmware that allowed the letters to be arranged in a harmful way?
someone used the emoji to threat the police and they went after the emoji? I'm no pro-gun or anything, but that's a sick reasoning
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:36 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bro imagine rolling into prison and saying you posted some emojis on Facebook
FashBug ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:57:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ArtigoQ ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 15:26:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Throw up a couple "gun free zone" signs and there we go. Cant bring guns in there or else you'll be a criminal!
RLutz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:00:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have a CCW and live in a state where those signs do not carry the force of law, but one thing they actually do is eliminate open carry, which I'm fine with.
I carry a concealed firearm for the same reason I buckle up when I get in my car--you never know when you might need it, and statistically, people in the US are victims of violent crime at least once in their life around 80% of the time.
That said, I live in a major metropolitan area. I understand that a lot of people here do not like firearms. I don't want to make people around me uncomfortable because I'm not a dick, so I concealed carry instead of open carry even though it's my right to do either.
Practically speaking, I think concealed carry makes more sense anyway. If some bad guy was planning on robbing a store, shooting the clerk, and then taking the money, and then he sees you with your gun on your hip, his plan will change to, shoot you, then shoot the clerk, then take the money.
That's why open carry never made sense to me. Congratulations, everyone can see your gun, very badass. You've established yourself as a threat, which in practical terms only means you're scaring people who don't need to be scared, and telling potential attackers to shoot you first.
legit question - if gun free zones dont do anything, why have any in the first place... should the white house, congress, airports, elementary schools, etc allow people to bring in assault rifles?
Thereโs a difference between a gun free zone with a sign at the entrance, and a gun free zone with metal detectors and guards at the entrance.
ArtigoQ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:41:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a psychological thing to make people feel better. The only people it's going to stop are law abiding citizens that conceal carry. Frankly, it doesn't matter one way or the other because the only people who are going to pull a gun on anyone for any reason are evil people with bad intentions that aren't going to be swayed by a sign.
Certainly you can decide if you want citizens to have guns or not on the premises, but I hope no one thinks this will prevent an active shooter situation.
obviously there is more than just a sign designating congress a gun free zone - you have to go through metal detectors. i cant imagine making a place like a hotly debated congress floor open to regular citizens with guns...
ArtigoQ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:59:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, not really a reason or need, for that matter, in a place that already has LEO/armed security. As to why some commercial business might have the signs I cant really see a reason to deny a citizens rights considering they might be the only defense in an active shooter situation.
The point is that the sign doesn't do shit. It's the enforcement, aka good guys with guns, that keep people from trying to shoot up those places. Put 30 highly trained Secret Service agents as protection for a school and you won't see any shootings there either.
Right, so we'd just need about 4 million secret service agents. Currently there are... let's see... about 4,500. Well it's a start! This is totally a realistic plan!
All the places you listed provide armed security except the elemntary school. If you are going to disarm people, it's your duty to provide them effective security. The movie theater puts up a gun free zone sign and the most security they have is a teenager verifying stubs? Fuuuuck off.
I don't know too much about the plastic straw issue. I've seen it referenced being banned in places, but not where I live. I haven't done much research into whether it would make a big difference or not. I don't think anyone pushing for it really thinks it's going to solve global warming alone, but there is something to be said for incremental changes that make a positive impact on the environment though.
As long as research shows said changes will make a sufficiently positive change, even if they cause a minor inconvenience for some people, it's still probably a good thing to implement in most cases.
Good work everybody, society will thank us in time
rrnaabi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You know, there is this field called "marketing", where they use little nudges, symbols and logos to "encourage" people to do x. Companies and governments and individuals spend billions of dollars on these techniques every year. This is just the same principle, very harmless and easy thing to do, which might have just 0.4% impact, which will still be better than nothing. No need to be so cynical
I'm planning on getting a new phone soon so I'll do it once I get around to that. I don't even know if there is a reliable root for the Verizon LG V20
R081n00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah i use a oneplus, wich makes the whole process really simple. Also the carrier branding could be problematic
jtvjan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Magisk is magic. It only replaces the boot image to get you root and modules (filesystem overlays). That makes it very safe, since if Magisk prevents your device from booting for whatever reason you can just install a clean version of the boot image. It also allows it to avoid detection by SafetyNet because the system partition is never modified.
Uh... nobody can tell what you see. We only see what our phone has. I see a revolver because that's what my phone has, technically you could make your gun emoji could look like a rocket launcher and nobody would be the wiser.
LuFann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My point is it's dumb to post an emoji and say you have this on your phone. We're aware from context you have an actual revolver and trying to demonstrate is only going to display a watergun for everyone with stuff actually up to date....
noneo ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 15:08:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Like I don't even think I have used the watergun emoji before either.
Of course. unless you're having a squirt gun fight, why would you need that.
A regular gun emoji is actually applicable to other conversations. Buying a gun, talking about guns, gun violence, etc. all would be appropriate use of the gun emoji.
I used the gun often to convey extremely annoyed with something or someone, like "gun to my head". It just does not convey the same message with a stupid neon water gun.
I used it with coworkers directly following certain face emojis in reference to how I felt about an interaction with a client and coworker, a project, etc. Iโm not broken up about the loss of the gun, but I miss it, and the squirt gun doesnโt do it for me.
Can't have that, society is just a bunch of irresponsible kids, can't just have them have grown up things like guns to defend themselves, can't even be allowed to express themselves.
Something like a semi auto pistol is harder to convey in a small amount of pixals would be my guess. It's a very 2D looking gun if you just did a low res side profile.
A revolver on the other hand has easy to make depth lines because everyone knows the cylinder is going to be sticking out, and the rest of the gun is in the same plane making it an easy draw.
It also has a bit to do with gun facts. Before cheap 9mm autopistols were common, the most common gun for crimes was a .38 special revolver, being the cheapest and most ubiquitous handgun on the market. The change to automatics came roughly around the 80s-90s, shortly before emoji was made. Hence, the gun the designers were familiar with as the ubiquitous sidearm was a revolver, not an auto pistol.
They should all be roughly the same because when you send an emoji to someone you need to be able to assume they'll see the same thing (or close enough)
Same, dude. Then I stopped dealing drugs back in 2018 because my squirt gun wouldn't let me hold my turf. Completely taken over by dealers with legacy phones.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:38:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Lmao I normally don't like to comment on PC culture but man this is kinda sad. Humans have always been garbage murderers, a gun emoji isn't going to change that.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:29:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Long-term, the robot's frankly more concerning.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:45:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and there are other urgent problems with the world that are already slipping out of control, like climate change. I was talking on a social scale, not a global one.
The decisions humans make now are more impactful on the trajectory of society than the actions taken by a future AI. I agree that ai is an issue that needs to be discussed, but it doesn't make other issues irrelevant.
This is sad, honestly. It makes me fear for the future that a picture of a realistic gun is too much for human beings to handle. There are still real guns out there, I'm not sure how much acting like they dont exist is really going go help.
I, personally, think its more sad that people get so upset by this. Its literally means nothing to someone if they change them into squirt guns, yet ppl want to pile on like is an affront to reality. so weird
tsjr ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:31:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ppl want to pile on like is an affront to reality
It kind of is though. When you're using a gun emoji do you really mean a water gun?
I'm an emoji hater myself, but the reason why I see this is annoying is because it's retroactively changing people's creations. You wanted to have a gun in your post? Now it's a toy gun. You wanted a salad? It's now a vegan salad.
First, it's the creation of the content provider. And secondly, it's not an incovienence to have such a minute change to a sentence. As in, there are few place the context may change and fewer still where a person would be unable to discern the meaning.
People being upset by the change in the salad is probably some magnitude of 10 higher in the "things that shouldn't bother a person" realm for me. Uff
tsjr ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:09:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I agree that it's a minor inconvenience, not a big deal and probably not worth getting riled up on. It doesn't change the fact that it's, imho, just a stupid thing to do. You're changing what a character represents. You're failing at the one job that you have as a content publishing platform, and especially when it comes to sensitive topics it could very well be seen as content policing. It may not be a big deal to you, but to some people it may be just as annoying as changing the religious symbol they used to something else.
How do you think it feels, when someone insults the intelligence of your fellow man? They think a cartoon revolver is too much so it has to be replaced. Ridiculous.
Weird take, but okay.
As far as I can tell none -apart from Microsoft- has even said why. But none of that seems like an insult to my fellow man's intelligence. Lol
Dumeck ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:36:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Company changes art for emoji that has zero effect on their lives. Ppl get mad and claim this is indicative of how soft ppl are now. While not saying why that's bad or really providing any reasoning beyond their weird knew jerk reaction to get mad about the move.
Its dumb.
I mean, it is indicative of something to that note. Not that people are soft necessarily, but that all these companies felt the need to change a harmless fucking emoji from a gun to a toy.
So in the same line of reasoningโฆ it's dumb that they changed it, because it is just an emoji. We're about as upset at them for caring so much as you are at us for caring so much. So you're just like us in that sense.
You're also not providing any evidence why our caring about this is bad. You're sort of having a weird knee-jerk reaction towards us yourself.
they can change them however and why-ever they wish, thats their prerogative. saying that its dumb is sort of my point. Why is it dumb? why should they not change them? why does it matter if they do?
my reaction is simply pointing out that people are overreacting to something small and inconsequential. while making such robust claims like its an insult to our intelligence or symptomatic that societies gone soft. its really a silly reaction
It's dumb because the emoji is supposed to be a gun, not a water gun. We're not over reacting just because you don't agree the change is silly. You don't have to agree.
Yes, companies can do whatever they want. We are also allowed to be upset about things they do.
Saying this is the result of society being soft or an insult to mans intelligence is the behavior that I said was silly. But okay, just ignore my points.
I never said any of those. I said it's something along those lines. Personally I think it's purely political and I don't like that Apple felt bold enough to push politics into emojis.
Inb4 "they never said it was political," they didn't have to.
almost seems like you jumped onto my comment to someone else making an inane statement. hmm
I don't like that Apple felt bold enough to push politics into emojis.
im just going to ignore the unsubstantiated assumption about political motivation. Because I, too, would assume it was probably in relation to some school shooting or related.
how is this bold? was it bold when they made women and different colored emojis? because that was politically motivated,and theres certainly nothing wrong with that diversity.
I don't associate women and other ethnicities merely existing with politics. Same with cheese and soap and the other emojis they've been adding. They just exist. They should be emojis, because emojis are a part of modern language in a way. It's not political at all, the same way we have a word for "woman" or "Hispanic"
Similarly, the gun emoji thing is definitely political, and here's why:
Now we don't have an emoji to represent a real gun. They've effectively removed a word from the "emoji language"
The Unicode spec says "pistol". It doesn't say "toy pistol" or "water pistol," it's objectively an opinated interpretation of the emoji's description.
I don't associate women and other ethnicities merely existing with politics.
i did not say you did, but this is the same conversation when emojis were diversified. that it was politically motivated - while its less inline with the statement i was originally replying too, it fits with a lot of the others making the pc narrative claim.
the gun emoji thing is definitely political
you subjectively state while also asserting the claim that its to mean "guns bad".
NMJ87 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:56:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It matters because if you give a mouse a cookie they want a glass of milk.
However you feel about guns... You don't want the squeaky wheels running shit.
If whoever yells the loudest and cries throws a hissy fit gets their way, we're doomed.
Eventually the PC crowd will cross a line for you, if they haven't already.
My line was like.... Blasting standup comics for telling god damn jokes.
But honestly how is changing it to a water gun solving anything? I had a teacher in elementary school that refused to tell her kid about guns, she said they called them water squirters, not water guns. I'm sure that kept him from learning guns were a thing. Not.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:50:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing. But, companies change their visual assets all the time, so I counter: What would keeping it the same solve?
If the answer to both is nothing, then why does anyone care about this? Why does changing it upset anyone? It's not different than any other new icon design.
No, because the entire idea that emojis are meant to 'solve' problems is one you're saying. If you claim changing it wont' solve anything, the implication is that emojis are somehow meant to solve things.
They aren't. It's a company changing their assets. Untie the knot your panties are in and just get over it. Who the fuck cares?
Emojis are becoming a part of everyday language. It's just ridiculous because it's like they think taking away a 'word', if you will, will solve something
So the answer to the question is, "None", and you just don't want to say it, then?
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:43:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People aren't mad they're annoyed. It would be like if every time you tried to say fuck it got turned into frick. Next this ๐กwill get turned to this ๐ฅ
They're already confiscating assault spoons in the UK
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Zero effect? Nah. I hate downloading any apps, yet I got so sick of emojis not being displayed on my phone (and not being able to send them), that I downloaded an entirely new large texting program onto my Android just so I could download the emoji supplement.
That hardly matters as well though.
I should have been more specific perhaps. I dont think ALL of them made the change for little reason, just that it is hardly a reason to be annoyed.
It goes against the purpose of the Unicode consortium. From the first line of the Unicode Wikipedia page (emphasis mine):
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
By changing the picture displayed, they are drastically changing the representation of the symbol. A squirt gun is NOT remotely similar to a pistol in ways such purpose, effectiveness, legality, danger, etc. They are entirely different things. So now, writings from before the change will be displayed on new devices with an entirely different meaning. If they wanted a squirt gun emoji, they could have added a new emoji for it, and even removed pistol from the emoji keyboard and put in a squirt gun. That doesn't affect previously written works. That wouldn't go against the purpose of Unicode.
The whole thing is akin to having a filter which changes the word "gun" to "toy" whenever you view a website, even if the website was written before the implementation of the filter, and the author meant to write the word "gun". So by changing the displayed word they are changing the meaning of past work. This is an example of a memory hole and it is dangerous.
Nevasky ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 18:50:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
the responses to you pretty much highlight your point perfectly
I dont normally point out that kind of irony because it seems a bit like generalizing.
But someone really tried to say that removing the egg from the salad was "retroactively changing people's creations".
They appeared to be serious
Nevasky ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:05:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i see it kinda often when it concerns artists changing their own work for personal reasons, and it really irks me that so many people have that opinion
[deleted] ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 18:46:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Doing away with the gun emoji is such a stupid case of virtue signaling. I dunno if they were trying to appease the big mouth cry babies or just thought it'd help their image.
What do you mean? How is this virtue signalling if the companies are doing it to preempt legal concerns over when using a gun emoji constitutes an actual threat?
You must at least admit it's a grey area, telling someone "I'm gonna shoot you" is different from posting their picture on Snapchat with a bunch of gun emojis.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:15:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It has happened and is the reason behind these changes.
A facebook post with a gun emoki pointing at a police emoji was used in court against a guy.
Its like IRL when someone does finger guns at a cop, they can get booked on assault.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:29:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know that, it's probably more of them trying to save people from themselves. No gun emoji, no one going to prison for criminal threats using a gun emoji.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:05:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
In this age where a bad tweet or joke from years ago can have you removed as a director from a blockbuster movie or from hosting a high-profile awards show, where violence is blamed on video games, etc., I can see these companies distancing themselves from any issues in the court of public opinion by dumbing down violence-related emojis with kid-friendly versions.
What do you mean? How is this virtue signalling if the companies are doing it to preempt legal concerns over when using a gun emoji constitutes an actual threat?
They better take away the keyboard, too, because a criminal can use those letters to type out an actual threat.
It's virtue signaling when it's tech companies changing meaningless things that don't really have any effect on the world to try and show others how much they are trying to help the problem - while actually doing nothing that matters.
It's almost the same as changing their twitter icon to a rainbow every march - zero actually change, but SHOWING how woke they are.
It's only virtue signalling if they're pushing the narrative for their own gain. If they just change it because they thought "hey, maybe we shouldn't be the ones exposing kids to guns at a young age, even though they can still easily find them elsewhere in the internet" then that's not virtue signalling. If they do it because they want to show how woke they are and put out a press release then sure.
They are pushing a narrative. The narrative is that "Guns are so dangerous that even a PICTURE of a gun is dangerous!" It is virtue signaling because they are trying to visibly show that they are "on the right side" of an issue, while doing nothing that actually contributes to fixing that issue.
You're assuming these are monolithic companies with the orders coming down from the CEOs. That could be the case, or it could just be the dude who draws the emojis thinking that maybe he could try to help the issue. Also, I believe that FB and Twitter have previously tried different approaches to limit violence and stuff like that, but it's a complicated issue and goes way beyond what a social media company can seriously affect.
I know what an emoji is, what does that have to do with anything I said in my comment? I'm saying it's not virtue signalling if they're trying in other ways to prevent gun violence, even if changing the emoji likely does nothing.
What if you're doing multiple things in an attempt to fix the issue? I hate this reductive definition of virtue signalling because it's misused to try and discount any minor progressive steps. It's not virtue signalling if they honestly think it will make a difference (whether they're correct in that belief or not), and inconsequential actions aren't virtue signalling if they're part of a larger and consistent effort.
I see your point, but we'll never really know why they did this. In my mind, it looks like virtue signaling because this change will have exactly zero effect on the world. I'm not sure if it's virtue signaling, or a corporate "Cover your ass" maneuver. Either way, I doubt it's done as a genuine fix to a problem.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I worded my initial comment poorly - I didn't mean to say anything on whether changing the gun emoji was a good thing or not. I was just saying that if they honestly thought it would make a difference (regardless of actual results), that it's not really virtue signalling.
If you need me to explain the difference of one individual with an opinion and a multinational corporation who's driven by share-holders to improve profits at all costs, then there isn't much hope for you.
Lets have the most popular video games involve ALL the guns and shooting everything in sight... but don't you fucking dare let people put cartoon guns in their texts by choice.
Worst part is it doesn't matter what it freaking looks like, if your intent was dangerous and you use the symbol its meaning is the same weather its a real gun or not.
300C ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:45:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And these same people get to algorimithically demote/promote content, deplatform certain people, and decide what we get to see, or not see. Its horrifying to anyone who cares about the future of the internet. It is the last place in the world where people can freely say what they want. And these major tech corporations are ruining it. Its not in their best interest to let people think for themselves. They want everyone to think and act like them. So much for intellectual diversity.
I agree, reddit supports it in large because they agree with the same ideology, but it's clear to see that it's dangerous and it's effects are already showing in some countries.
shdewit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who are all of the sensitive snowflakes out there that can't even handle the sight of a cartoon gun? It's an emoji. It isn't going to shoot out bullets and injure anybody.
Who are all of these sensitive snowflakes out there that canโt handle the idea that a company changed its emoji? Itโs an emoji. Itโs not creating new regulations.
I can understand where you come from, but it is ironic to use the phrase โsnowflakesโ in this instance.
If it was just Apple I'd roll my eyes at Apple being Apple, but they somehow got every major company to change from a revolver to squirtgun as if it makes any kind of difference at all to the world.
I can understand that position, and partially agree. I guess I could say itโs an emoji, a person seems too sensitive to care one way or the other. But I guess if you feel like it implies about a societal mindset then I can understand. Maybe like the introduction of people of color emojis.
schloky ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:43:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People of colour emojis were never needed imo. You can't represent everyone, that's why the bright yellow was the best.
With the POC emojis they kept the yellow, so they had both worlds. They could have kept the gun and squirt gun and it would have been cool. But if you feel like the rejection of a regular gun emoji is a signal about a whole societal mindset then maybe you can understand people might feel the same about Poc emojis. Itโs totally fine for you to hold your position but I would just like to create some bridge of understanding, even if you donโt agree. If you are just angry about losing an emoji then someone might say โItโs just an emoji. Relax.โ
schloky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I feel neutral about the skin colour emojis. I just don't find them necessary. Hell, I rarely use emojis. Why would I be angry? Sorry if I gave that vibe.
Oh donโt worry about it. I think itโs dumb to remove the gun emoji, I think itโs inclusive to have POC emojis. Like I said itโs fine if you donโt agree with me, and itโs fine to not give two hoots about emoji politics. I just wish to have people understand why someone might have a position even if they donโt agree with it. Like if a family member believes in hell and wants to save me, I can understand why they preach at me even if I donโt believe or agree with it. My top comment on this tried to do this poorly and aggressively and really didnโt work.
So? Why replace it then? Why not just add the cartoon toy squirt gun right next to the realistic looking gun? Liberal snowflake millennials and their perpetual "everything offends me" outrage virtue signaling culture. Even you, triggered that I dared to make a comment.
huck_ ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:29:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Liberal snowflake millennials and their perpetual "everything offends me" outrage virtue signaling culture.
You are getting outraged and virtue signaling over a cartoon gun being removed. You could just ignore it.
Flux_7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You could just ignore school shootings as well since they donโt impact the majority of the population. Oh wait, thatโs not how shit works.
I'm pro gun, but like, what the fuck are you even trying to say here? Replacing an emoji because of liberal pressure isn't even remotely similar to a mass shooting. Replacing an emoji doesn't hurt anyone aside from sensitive losers.
Why be against PC culture if you just turn around and engage in a different kind of PC culture?
huck_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank goodness. They solved gun violence with these change of emojis! All hail these tech companies!
tingsy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:05:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If I was a gun manufacturer, I would develop a line of guns that look just like the Emojis so they have to keep changing them. Worst case scenario free advertising
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:37:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Scary to think 6 companies control the way future generations will view things. Personally I think sugar coating everything is more detrimental to society. Life isn't always sunshine and rainbows and shielding children from that fact is going to create a lot of mental health issues in the future.
When reality doesn't cater to your dogma it's not "hog piling on". This is a cool guide; it just doesn't put your agenda in a good light because sunlight is the best disinfectant. Deal with it.
Nope. I'm claiming that the content doesn't fit the subreddit theme. Identifying the PC nature of it and the comments was tangential to the main point.
I'm claiming that the content doesn't fit the subreddit theme.
Exactly, but it does fit the theme and the only reason you're saying that it doesn't is for political reasons. The title and content of the post is 100% politics free and it is a cool guide. Take your political censorship elsewhere.
You are wrong on that and you were wrong to try to get it removed on that illegitimate basis for no reason other than the political/social implications that you didn't like. Shame on you.
Well as long as bombs and knives are used sometimes, I guess we better change those emojis as well, hmmmmm?
schloky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Blunt objects are used in killing far more people than guns annually in the us. Let's change the hammer into a squeaky one as well, see if the deaths decrease.
drqxx ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:47:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
That is a false argument. There's no correlation between the two events. I like you think school shootings fucking suck, however changing the emoji on your phone isnt going to do shit. I hope you're smart enough to realize that, I believe you are.
IkiOLoj ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 19:58:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well you are the pussy for whining about an emoji. Get tougher.
drqxx ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
True! If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. We have to stop this bullshit!
what do you mean he made a point? All he said was the world is becoming a place full of pussies. I'd certainly be ok with that, considering some questionable morals I've seen in past generations
RahBren ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm glad Apple can so easily deflect the attention of morons by making gun emojis into squirt guns. They finally solved gun violence. Heroes. Heroes that use slave labor. But heroes nonetheless.
I mean, that's kinda my point. It changes fuck all in the grand scheme of things but it's their property to do what they like with. Hardly indicative of a "pussification".
nage_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
why microsoft didnt go back to the phaser ill never know but im assuming thats was the same guy that gave the go ahead to pay for live and made the original xbox controllers
Imagine a room full of executives getting paid to debate on this
Zeal514 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Actually terrible. Removing a cats claws doesnt make the cat virtuos in the fact it doesnt claw you, it just makes it incapable. Which is not what you want... very different outcomes
H8te ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hzfan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People were using the gun emojis in threatening text messages. That's why Apple changed it. Reddit gets its panties in a twist over the most pointless tiny things I swear.
I had to click "read more comments" like five times before finally coming across a comment (yours) that wasn't a sarcastic dismissal of the change. I see it as a tiny, symbolic step in the right direction.
This bothers me mostly because it's not standards compliant. Unicode calls it a "gun | handgun | pistol | revolver | tool | weapon" but not a water pistol.
Apple unilaterally decided it would be a water pistol, and the other platforms followed because of a general trend of cross platform consistency (which is good) and Apple is the emoji market leader (perhaps not).
I swear just the other day, I was having my habitual uncontrollable white hot rage fit from seeing dangerous images of guns. Then I realized minutes later that I accidentally brought my water gun to the court steps. The district attorney and I had a good laugh after I realized that I had accidentally sprayed him with water.
This change goes against the purpose of the Unicode consortium. From the first line of the Unicode Wikipedia page (emphasis mine):
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
By changing the picture displayed, they are drastically changing the representation of the symbol. A squirt gun is NOT remotely similar to a pistol in ways such purpose, effectiveness, legality, danger, etc. They are entirely different things. So now, writings from before the change will be displayed on new devices with an entirely different meaning. If they wanted a squirt gun emoji, they could have added a new emoji for it, and even removed pistol from the emoji keyboard and put in a squirt gun. That doesn't affect previously written works. That wouldn't go against the purpose of Unicode.
The whole thing is akin to having a filter which changes the word "gun" to "toy" whenever you view a website, even if the website was written before the implementation of the filter, and the author meant to write the word "gun". So by changing the displayed word they are changing the meaning of past work. This is an example of a memory hole and it is dangerous.
benso_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Changing this emoji has prevented so many mass shootings. Itโs changed the world for the better!
Guns exist, and they're legal to own. They're fun to shoot, and they're a legitimate hobby and activity, right along with baseball, cooking, and fashion.
Governments also maintain armies and police forces that use firearms.
We have let the most sensitive of pussies dictate what we can and cannot think and say. For shame.
I'm still upset that they renamed the Washington Bullets to "The Wizards," because of anti-gun hysteria. Bullets exist, and are powerful. It was a good name (and metaphor) for a sports team. A wizard, by contrast, is a man who makes it to the age of 30 without ever having had sex. It's not intimidating, and it's not a good name for a team of big, tough black dudes.
Stop trying to take away and erase the existence of firearms.
It's literally the second right in our constitution, after free speech, and without them, the strongest bully can dominate anyone smaller than he, and the weak remain vulnerable and defenseless.
This is the most black mirror shit ever. People Litterally die and companies are like โI know!โ And change an emoji to be green. Good job world. Youโre fucked.
โDonโt worry, I know Jimmyโs dead, but at least he wasnโt subjected to violent imagery before he was shot at school. Hereโs your hospital and funeral bill, thoughts and prayers.โ
BooCMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey /u/CommonMisspellingBot, just a quick heads up:
Your spelling hints are really shitty because they're all essentially "remember the fucking spelling of the fucking word".
And your fucking delete function doesn't work. You're useless.
BooBCMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey BooCMB, just a quick heads up:
I learnt quite a lot from the bot. Though it's mnemonics are useless,
and 'one lot' is it's most useful one, it's just here to help. This is like screaming at
someone for trying to rescue kittens, because they annoyed you while doing that. (But really CMB get some quiality mnemonics)
I do agree with your idea of holding reddit for hostage by spambots though, while it might be a bit ineffective.
Still don't know why they all changed to water gun. Like damn I was gonna shoot someone but then the gun emoji became a water gun emoji so now I'm not violent
so we changed the cartoon interpretation of a gun into a more futuristic version?
Sure! I guess but what happens when we actually have laser guns? What will the emoji morph into?
What a time to be alive!
This is entirely Apple's fault. Changing it to a water gun changes the meaning, everyone has no choice but to change theirs too. Imagine a mom with an iPhone sends a message to her husband saying she's getting their 6 year old son a water gun and uses the gun emoji, the husband with an Android phone is going to think she's nuts getting their 6 year old a revolver.
I donโt really like guns, but I think itโs stupid and pointless as fuck to shelter people from an image of one and use this shit instead lol. Like I get it, but itโs fucking moronic.
Ah, it makes sense though: depressed, schizo, over-medicated teens who didn't have enough parental care and guidance don't kill people; cartoony revolver images do.
I swear I'm gonna CUM these niggas so PUSSY. You bitch ass niggas so sensitive you use a fucking WATER GUN instead of a handgun? Damn bruh that'll stop school shootings fo sho. stupid ass niggas
Being afraid of seeing a gun is like being afraid of saying the word bomb in an airport. It has no impact on actual safety and clouds judgement with security theater hysteria.
10jesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple always a couple years ahead of its competitors
Ah. I utilized this strategy in my last marriage. Don't talk/think about something for long enough and it eventually goes away. Congrats guys! Getting rid of little gun pictures solved gun violence!
Not gonna lie. I put off my update on my iPhone bc I knew it was gonna chance my gun emoji. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ as if i was on strike and it would have made a difference.
thats the most snowflaky thing ive ever seen. not using emojis anyways but thats just plain stupid. how should you threaten someone with a fucking squirtgun?
I remember in like 2006 my friend did a project on a computer virus for his class in computer tech or something, and he got suspended for like 1 week because he showed the class how a virus works, using a video.
they suspended him for 1 week saying "that's like bringing a gun to school and promising not to shoot anyone." and he was like "no, it's like bringing a picture of a gun to school." which got him the 1 week.
Kind of glad to see that everyone has changed to squirt guns, which made me remember my unfortunate buddy.
Mmad0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
tajjet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:01 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
really interesting aside from just the gun thing
apple still had the sort of skeuomorph thing going on with that gun and it fucking sucked, remember that shit? the design choice for teaching boomers how their ipod touch worked. garbage. awful
twitter's flat design was really smart and is what everything looks like now. tough to tell whether they just made a great prediction or if everyone just copied twitter's design philosophy but probably the latter
microsoft and samsung emoji sets just suck, i have a samsung phone so i'm glad i'm online enough to use discord and twitter way more than i actually text people. fuck
speaking of discord, can't wait until they change to the water gun and gamers get mad about pc sjws or whatever. lol
google's flintlock thing is interesting, if everyone had gone to non-gun designs faster it would have worked out and made them look good for predicting it.
not willing to give microsoft that same credit because their designs all suck and always have
seriously, can't get over how samsung's water gun unironically has a fucking gradient in it. it makes me nauseous
I'm pro-gun and pro-life so just saying that alone just pissed off over half of Reddit users if not 3/4 of them here. I'm here to be a smartass and read other smartass comments while having fun.
As far as the evolution of the gun emoji goes.... Go back to 2013 for all of them.
Why do we gotta ban gun emojis? We can buy a gun (in America at least) with no issues but if you want to text a gun emoji then someone might be triggered. No pun intended.
Because if we change the gun emoji to a squirt gun that will do something... okay it wonโt do anything but it will make us feel like weโre doing something positive and taking a stance while literally doing nothing at all... sort of like the plastic straw ban.
Tbh this is pretty fucking stupid. It's like banning fortnite or replacing it's guns with something "non-violent" because it promotes crime. If that's the case then fortnite is promoting people aged 4 and up to go out and kill everyone in sight.
Really donโt understand why everyone theyโre all water pistols now completely different meaning
Like what if I send a message to my cousin โIโm coming to lil Johnnyโs party (guns) blazing!!!โ If it shows water pistols thatโs a genuine misunderstanding, need to keep the guns real homies to avoid those misunderstandings
I think itโs backwards making emojis more Politically correct, itโs like auto correcting the word fucking to the word ducking but not having the option to actually write fuck. Itโs kind of like censoring peopleโs language.
โDamn, we need to do something about gun violence.
โHow about some law regulating military-grade weapons acquisition by civilians?
โNah, let's just change the gun emoji. That oughta fix it.
NMJ87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
From the scary data ive seen, we're not going to see a drop in mass shootings until we see one with income inequality.
The reason it scares me is that uh... Its not an obvious link, when you say that more unequal societies have more violence people think in their head "yeah poor people are sometimes violent thanks captain obvious" but the worrying bit is that it doesn't have anything to do with income level really -- its a correlation between how unequal a society is and how much violence
I'm worried real real real worried that gun control legislation is going to be passed and then the rate of these incidents isn't going to drop and then folks are going to be convinced that nothing can be done, and even more worrying it will diminish the other good ideas those who would pass gun control legislation would have -- and at the moment the only people in American politics who are speaking about income inequality are the same people who are talking about gun control lol so.. Yeah we're fucked
It probably won't go down. America has this really fucked up problem where the ultra-rich just want to get richer at the expense of fucking everything and everyone over. Just look at healthcare bills, student loans, housing expenses and pretty much anything. And since they have the government on their pockets, no one can do anything.
I saw a post some days ago where a hospital charged like a thousand bucks for an EKG. That's what a low to mid-range EKG machine costs. I'd too want to shoot people if they charged me that much.
One time this dude wouldnโt stop texting my sister all this creepy shit she didnโt want, so I got his number and started doing the same to him but amped up the 11.
He thought gun emojis would scare me off. And he never figured out it was someone connected to her.
That was a nice bonding moment with my sister I thought Iโd share.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:00:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What information are you looking at that shows violent crime going up at all? General trend for violent crime has been going down for quite a while now, despite the rise in video games somehow.
OK... On my phone I entered what looks like a normal revolver. Looking at it on my desk top, it's turned into a super soaker. On my phone it's still the revolver.
Well even if itโs not action, itโs intent. And the GOP has no intent to help. So Iโm sorry, tech companies still show more compassion for school shooting victims :/
THIS is compassion for school shooting victims? Wtf...
You should be mad that our culture is so fucking childish that all these companies change some emojis from revolvers to water guns because people like you think it means something.
The problem is that people think that replacing a pixeled gun emoji with a watergun is "caring" about school shootings. Sad what our culture has deemed as important. And these major corporations are absolutely wasting their time and resources doing this.
Persistent images contributes to behavioral output...
Read Blink, itโs a great book. You would be surprised by all the little things that can influence behavior. You may think the gesture of changing an image is useless from your view but you donโt know that, you just feel that...
Yet you get flustered anyway? It just screams a certain... something... hard to put my finger on it
You're telling me that we are going to influence violence, for good or bad, by an emoji that looks like a gun? An emoji that looks like a gun. On a phone. For texting. Think about what you are saying.
It's preposterous that society thinks it needs to change emojis in order to help curb the bad things in our world.
If you read a book once in a while you may learn something new other than your own preconceived view of the world. There are many interesting nuances to behavior. I literally have degrees in neuroscience and have studied the matter. Whatโs your authority?
They changed emojis from guns to waterguns for political correctness...
I'm not sure if your neuroscience degree included how fearmongered and ridiculous our culture has become. Your going to need a psychology degree, not a neuroscience degree.
Telling someone to go "read a book" is childish. What's funny is that I actually have Malcolm Gladwell's Blink book on my Amazon wishlist. I'm pretty positive if read it though, Gladwell wouldn't be ignorant enough to think that changing these emojis would have a positive influence on our culture.
Iโll put it this way. An eggplant emoji as we all know often implies a penis, but itโs very different from an actual penis emoji. Both represent the same thing, imply the same suggestions. Would you rather normalize people to the graphic image of a penis, or the veggie suggestion of one? Thatโs the simplest Iโll break it down. You should really read Blink, itโs a great book
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So the water gun should be banned as well? Because the eggplant emoji was removed for implying penis and that's exactly what the water gun does. The fake version was even more effective and removed anyway showing that these actions are pointless and mean nothing.
People would use an actual penis if it was an emoji LESS than using the eggplant ironically. At least I'd imagine.
Either way, an icon of a gun does NOT automatically imply negative things, malevolence, the degradation of society, or whatever you want to call it. I'm not sure how people are so uptight about that. After crying to apple about the emoji being too violent, they buy their kids some loot boxes for Counter Strike or sit down and watch Game of Thrones with them. It's all bullshit. None of that causes any problems with society. Even if it does, that's not a problem with the image, and thus shouldn't be demonized. It's like saying the movie Saving Private Ryan glorifies war. Couldn't be more wrong.
I'm just saying it parallels with something as ridiculous as a network refusing to play a war movie because they cause violence. It's just another stepping stone towards that. It might be small, but it's not insignificant.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're the retard who thinks changing an emoji has done more to combat gun violence than the Government has in the last 20 years.
Well duh, tech companies are the ones with big pull. Apple is the first bastion against gun violence, I mean, all of the collective 49 million lives saved from an emoji change merits a company wide Nobel peace prize.
Dumb logic is thinking an emoji change does anything.
That last sentence doesnโt make sense, but okay. How is it a good gesture though, what does it change? Do you think an aspiring mass shooter looked at his new water pistol emoji and called off his plan? Or it prevented anything? Nope. Itโs stupid all around, your logic more so at this point, not even the emoji.
Because your logic is stupid. โHaha they did more than GOPโ but if all thatโs needed is a good gesture, Iโm sure there are good gestures everywhere that arenโt seen because of a majority. Itโs just retarded. Sorry you canโt see that Bucko.
This is the kind of guy that intentionally takes sarcasm seriously so he can build his "Days I was Offended" streak to earn his Social Justice Merit Badge.
Maybe you should do a better job understanding their arguments instead of assuming that you're smarter than an entire political party. The GOP has strong reason to believe that making guns illegal wouldn't solve gun violence, and it's stupid to believe that doing so would reduce it by 100% if at all. Not only that, but there's the moral and practical issue of being able to defend oneself, particularly against tyrannical forces, instead of waiting for others to do it.
Hah, "I'll wait." You weren't talking about this before, only the reasoning of the GOP behind their stance on guns, but if you insist on my giving an example, look into Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Doesnโt matter what your stance is. People keep dying and one side refuses to take even the smallest action. I understand where they come from, and what Iโm saying is that they have done nothing at all to help. Projects and ideas are great and all, but laws and regulation is what we need to keep people safe. Why not just try it? If it doesnโt work then we change it again. Itโs called democracy โthe great experimentโ for a reason. Doing nothing will change nothing. Iโm sorry if thatโs too complex to grasp.
I literally just gave you an example of something that was being done. Are you going to acknowledge facts, or are you just going to deny them and continue changing the goalposts?
The one that just ramps up prosecution and policing of certain districts? That doesnโt really tackle guns, itโs just more of the same heavy handed policing, nothing new.
Longer sentences, mandatory minimums and militarization of the police is not helping. Itโs actually doing more harm than good, and does nothing to reduce violence... but thatโs cool to keep around why? Meanwhile people get flustered over an emoji because โit doesnโt do anythingโ
Edit: also downvoting every one of my replies makes you look childish.
The Project has had positive effects since it was begun, and it's not just "longer sentences, mandatory minimums and militarization of the police." Look, all this information is out there. Prove your position to me instead of just throwing your feelings at me.
It cost $1.5 billion dollars to fund and most of that went to police. Iโm not throwing feelings Iโm just saying that itโs interesting that cheap alternatives are scoffed at, but if there is a billion dollars to the police thatโs no problem. Other solutions cost pennies, and when dems want to spend $1.5 billion on climate change Iโm sure the GOP would scoff too. I just think there are better ways, and so far none of the solutions proposed have either passed or done much to really help.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:59:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If only they could change an emoji to satisfy you. Fucking what?
Why do you have to be angry and insulting in every comment, despite that guy being very patient and polite? Anger of that kind is a way bigger driver of gun violence than anything else, so if anything, you are encouraging gun violence with your aggression.
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DeceitfulRain ยท 5969 points ยท Posted at 14:31:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoft: y'know I thought we were cool with the alien gun, but everyone seems to be doing revolvers so let's just OH NO TURN BACK, TURN BACK
GayWolfGoneOwO ยท 1500 points ยท Posted at 15:35:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They have the coolest laser gun there, sad to see they succumb to peer pressure
PurpleTopp ยท 517 points ยท Posted at 15:40:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They succumbed to peer pressure the same year that apple tried to break the wheel
FlyingPasta ยท 210 points ยท Posted at 17:04:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Classic Microsoft and Apple
conscious_synapse ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 17:50:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Has there ever been a case where Apple HASN'T started a trend, only to be laughed at and then inevitably followed by Microsoft/Samsung/Google in the next year or two? God that must piss off the anti-apple circlejerk SO MUCH!
Edit: 1 giant vs. 3 giants doesnโt really seem fair either
ChrisAshtear ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 19:42:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the search functions and widgets being touted in osx(10.4?), where they made a shirt that said "redmond start your copiers".
I was using a beta of vista at the time that had all this crap.
Additionally, microsoft added tablet functionality a long time before apple wanted anything to do with it, and apple certainly didnt invent the gui, they just took it from xerox
Oh, they also didnt invent an mp3 player with a hard disk either.
Apple is good at interfaces, user experience, and marketing. They are not always first.
dwells1986 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:42:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right. Bill Gates came out with a tablet pc prototype that was basically an iPad in like 2002 and nobody cared. In like 2010 Apple released the iPad and everybody was like "omg Steve Jobs is a genius!".
Apple makes good products sometimes, but I hate when people worship them like some sort of gods.
Tweenk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:40:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I used one of these early tablet PCs, the HP Compaq TC1100. The biggest problem with it was that the Windows XP interface was an extreme pain to use without the keyboard. Practically nothing was designed for pen/touch input. The device did not have a touchscreen - it had a digitizer, so you had to use the special Wacom stylus to do anything.
Tablet PC did not succeed because it was an attempt to shoehorn laptop software designed for mice and keyboards onto a new form factor that had neither. Apple at least recognized that this is not going to work and an entire new ecosystem of touch-friendly apps has to be built from scratch.
do_pm_me_your_butt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:14:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tablet pc was just too early, it was that ugly early touchscreen and the fact that it was as thick as a bible
Tatatatatre ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:31:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh come one the tablet pc sucked at that time
roundtree ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 22:28:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In fact, they're rarely "first" first. They're usually just the first to do it well.
boxedmachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't both apple and Microsoft take from Xerox? Lolol
ChrisAshtear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:48 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yep!
my favorite analogy for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcb-XF1RPQ
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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macgivor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it cool?
Innotek ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:18:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well how about the time Microsoft released the surface and pencil, Apple talked a whole bunch about how the stylus was dead. Then they went dark for awhile. Then they removed the air and put everything behind the iPad Pro. I mean donโt get me wrong, they have great stuff (typing this on an iPhone), but all of these companies are wired to shit on each other at every opportunity.
Plus, when you miss the market completely, you have to find a way to reframe the discussion so you look like youโre innovating when youโre only catching up.
Shawnj2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Really the stylus for the iPad now is for note taking with handwriting and drawing, both of which are useful tablet things that are near-impossible to do well without a stylus.
Innotek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:00 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Which is exactly what Microsoft released two years prior.
laxt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:54:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The mp3 player.
The iPod was not the first portable mp3 player. In fact, to give you an idea of where technology around mp3s were when the iPod came out, my friend had a car stereo that played data discs with mp3s. So instead of 12 songs on a disc, you'd have 300, and yes there was an interface to browse directories. Apple didn't invent the mp3, despite what the hype would like you to believe. They made a damn good mp3 player, but that's about as innovative as Sony with the Walkman. Did Apple steal any ideas from Sony with the iPod? Of course not! Did Apple continue any "trend" that was previously dominated by Sony? Of course not. But assumptions like your's is exactly why there's any "anti-apple circlejerk". Apple consumers are notoriously and openly fond of their own farts, so to speak. You do it to yourselves.
Ashenspire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:21:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Jobs spent the money Apple received from Microsoft to avoid a monopoly on advertising the iPod in such a way it appealed to Women. And it worked.
There were better devices. Creative had a better device. Hell, the Zune was phenomenal compared the iPod, especially in terms of sync software, but the iPod became the next Bandaid, Kleenex, and Nintendo to mom's and here we are.
Disney_World_Native ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:43:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The Zune had a โbuy from FM featureโ. It had a built in radio that you could tag a song, buy it directly on the device, and then download it on the player using WiFi. All back in 2008.
I never got one since my media was all iTunes, but the Zune had a bunch of nice features that were way ahead of Apple at the time. Too bad Microsoftโs marketing sucked.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:53:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Are you kidding? That's the reason I hate Apple. They make these shit decisions, and every other tech company follows them for some reason. There's no reason Android phones shouldn't have a headphone jack or physical keyboards anymore. The UI design is garbage. It's all because of Apple. Yes I blame Google and Microsoft too.
635nM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agreed with most of your post, but I can't agree with this part. Maybe for business phones only, sure. But why pay for two phones for your workers when you can just give them one that does everything acceptably well, even if it's not great at typing? Unless you have to compose more than a couple of emails a day, I can't see the benefits conferred by a physical keyboard outweighing the drawbacks anymore.
Maybe I'd change my mind if I was a business executive.
Agree completely on the headphone jack and the batteries and SD slots and everything else, though (even though you didn't mention them).
exceptyourewrong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:54:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Between voice to text and swipe "typing" I can't imagine going back to a phone with a physical keyboard. If I need to write something long enough that those two technologies aren't sufficient, I'll use a computer with a full sized keyboard.
Drunken_Economist ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:04:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, they shouldn't be doing this for emoji. They are breaking standards. Same thing when they added a whole bunch of modifiers to the emoji set and forced the Unicode Consortium to scramble to build a standard.
It's very literally the same as if they invented new letters and made them included on the apple keyboard instead of the normal A-Z
Dude_Extraordinaire ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 20:46:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yet everyone followed suit. Maybe it was just a good idea not to have an inherently violent, even lethal thing, which is illegal/restricted virtually everywhere except some parts of the US by the way, as an emoji?
Someone has to break standards to induce change, and it's not at all like inventing new letters.. our world doesn't revolve (pun not intended) around having a unified way to express, what, a gun in emoji form? Come on now.
Drunken_Economist ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 21:07:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not even talking about the bomb emoji, Apple does this stuff all the time. They gave a big middle finger to the SMS standard by adding "reactions" to them, told the Unicode Consortium approval process to go fuck themselves and added a whole bunch of skin tones instead of waiting for the Consortium to publish the standard for it (which was coming literal weeks later and had to be redefined). The do it with chargers, chat protocols . . .basically everything breaks when you look at their stuff with anything besides an iphone
635nM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:31 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's always annoyed me that even now, in the heady days of near-instant wireless file transfers and cloud storage, you still can't conveniently get an iphone and android to cooperate enough to send photos wirelessly between each other.
frickingphil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. I use an iPhone and love using AirDrop between Macs and iPhones a lot, but god I wish there was some sort of an open AirDrop where I could send stuff to Windows PCs and Android devices too.
(AirDrop reliability could use some work too lol, like ugh theyโre in my contacts and theyโre standing a foot away from me, just work dammit)
FlyingPasta ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:57:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The apple circlejerk is my biggest pet peeve on reddit, it's at "justin beiber bad" levels of cliche public enemy, except without the eventual self awareness.
Keep up the good fight
Ionlydateteachers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Beiber is alright..
conscious_synapse ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I gotta admit this was not the response I expected. Very refreshing - cheers mate.
StardustOasis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They're usually laughed at by the other three because they had done it a few years earlier. Can't remember the exact feature, but a few years ago Apple were making a big deal about a new iPhone feature that Androids had already had for a few years. It happened every time a new iPhone comes out, at least one of the selling points has been on other phones since the last iPhone was released.
Apple aren't innovative, they just take the new things from the previous few years and add them to the iPhone with flashy marketing.
Burnem34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:53:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How about anything involving PCs?
Democrab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that half of us hate these trends and wish companies would break away from following the Apple style so much, for example I'd simply deal a lot of negative points about any particular phone if it has the 3.5mm jack, a micro sdcard slot and a physical keyboard because of my usage habits on a phone. I don't have a problem with Apple, I have a problem with their influence which partially comes from their marketing. (But more so comes from companies not realising that simply copying the trends isn't going to guarantee success and may even bring harm if it removes the unique features/reasons that company had a customer base.)
I'm also glad that OS X style GUIs haven't taken off in the PC world, each to their own as it always is with UIs and individual workflows but as someone who happily uses Linux and no other OS on their personal PC I honestly find it headache inducing and not intuitive at all.
TrannosaurusRegina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably consider a BlackBerry then! :)
Democrab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I dislike that layout. I'm going to end up getting one of these more than likely. I had the HTC Dream and sliders are great for web browsing, chatting and gaming or anything else that benefits from a landscape layout and requires a lot of input. It's literally like using a mini desktop or laptop.
Sangui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can you name a feature that they were first to market with? Because I quite honestly can't. They've just got a following like Trumps that will believe whatever bullshit they put out and defend the lies to the ground.
And I do mean a feature, not something useless like changing an emoji.
goopoolol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So much this.
-Cryptomaniac- ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 18:11:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Funny enough Apple was not breaking any wheel but actually somewhat conforming to it. They changed from the gun emoji after a wave of shootings in the US. Only a matter of time until The Mothers Alliance for Children Being Safe and in Bed by 7 publishes an independent unreviewed study linking the frequency of gun emojis posted on facebook with the likelihood that they will shoot someone.
nixonrichard ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 18:23:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the way politics gets laundered through sociology is absurd.
"We did a n=300 mechanical turk study with biased questions that found using a gun emoji with a real-looking gun means you're 5,000% more likely to murder your family on a weekday south of the Mason-Dixon line."
Buzzfeed article the next day: "gun emoji linked to alt-right"
kbig22432 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:51:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Look out Florida Man, they're coming for you
diacetyltrap ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:05:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If I know anything about something, and I think I do. Then the rise of school shooting is around the same time we started seeing laser and squirt guns in emojis instead of normal guns...
Which is concrete Proof! That emojis kill children!!
/s
-Cryptomaniac- ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:59:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad but true. Science doesn't seem to be about laws or principles anymore it's just about what test proved you right. Not a great way of finding the truth unfortunately
altiuscitiusfortius ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:23:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Silly boy (or girl), sociology isn't a real science! That was your first mistake.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:56:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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-Cryptomaniac- ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:14:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry that is not the message I intended to convey, nor is it a view I hold. Way too vague with what I wrote, I only mean some of the social sciences coming out in the past decade or so. They seem to be driven by case studies finding their own theories right, rather than using those findings to derive governing laws and principles of the field. I'm finding this happening specifically in fields like Grievance Studies but I'm sure you are aware of the big hoax exposing that dumpster fire. Not sure how you can even call that science honestly, nothing about that is scientific.
Hehenheim88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:01:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Its a fucking icon.
Unfortunately school shootings have been going on for decades now.
MustacheEmperor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There is an excellent article on the SF MOMA website about exactly this topic, The Absolute Denial of ๐ฉ. I'll try to pull representative quotes, but it's short and really worth reading.
...
Drunken_Economist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that the causality there is reversed lol
Naaaagle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I read somewhere that they changed it because the gun emoji was ruled as a death threat in a court in France or something
-Cryptomaniac- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:16:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah there was a lot of pro gun control lobby groups advocating for it. They still are actually. I believe it has at least been requested that Apple removes guns (both the water gun and the finger guns) from the menu altogether. Something like โDisarm All iPhonesโ or something
HenMeck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That shows character of shooters, not influence of the emoji. If anyone believes having access to a gun emoji will turn you into a shooter, they're an idiot.
ApocsBrother ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A song of Apple and Microsoft
DownshiftedRare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoft changed up their style the moment Apple copied them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:57:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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Hehenheim88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tried or did? Look at the rest of them 2 years later.
shoe-car-or-car-shoe ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs almost like the NRA stopped paying Apple and started paying Microsoft.
Obi-Tron_Kenobi ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 16:49:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tbf, they had the only laser gun there. The rest are squirt guns ๐ซ๐ซ
KristyBanalia ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 17:38:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Weird. I'm on android lgg6 and I'm seeing the 2017 Google revolver.
Toqom ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:51:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm seeing 2014-16 Google revolver
A_plural_singularity ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:59:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ
Alecarte ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:52:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:32:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's because android phones famously run forever on old builds.
Alecarte ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:09:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that combats planned obsolescence is good in my books.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's just the interesting reason for people having different gun emojis. I wouldn't have thought about it until people mentioned it.
notashin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who needs security fixes anyway?
Alecarte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if this is sarcasm or not...
notashin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It is.
CGB_Zach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What version of android are you running?
KristyBanalia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
8.0.0
CGB_Zach ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:03:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That might be why. That's an older version of android. I'm on android 9 although mine shows the Samsung gun emoji.
essdoubleU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
T90Vladimir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
LG always does their own thing, trust me. Trying to root & custom ROM my G5 was a rollercoaster... Also I made some modifications so the gun is always displayed as a revolver for me. At least I can see without the bullshit they force upon you. Also looks a bit shit when you send a headshot emoji combination to your pal and you are headshotting with a watergun.
Undead_With_A_Panda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ.
Hmmm
awdrifter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same.
captcinnacrunch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same for me on the T-mobile version with most recent software updates currently available.
thanatossassin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Classic Microsoft. Had a badass phone and UI based on natural gestures and reachability, succumbed to the peer pressure of universal hamburger menu UX, now we here.
haloryder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:04:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Googleโs 2013 flintlock is pretty cool.
SirPikaPika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OwO
altiuscitiusfortius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, it looks like a ping pong paddle dripping with semen to me, im glad they changed it.
flippertheband ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But there's no trigger... how do you fire it?
Even stranger, it does have a cock - which definitely isn't the right word for that, but it's what you do to it.
GayWolfGoneOwO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You squeeze the shit out of them
Thesaurususaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah Google's got em beat with the blunderbuss
GlaciusTS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm rather fond of Googleโs little musket
Tobymaxgames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:26 on August 26, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
succumb to water pressure
drakoman ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 15:47:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โWhatโs Apple doing? Letโs do the opposite for a lilโ
JigglypuffsBalls ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 17:41:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I hate that shit. Why do XBOX and PS make their disk drives opposite each other? Why does XBOX use reversed Nintendo controls? Why?
Codename_Fluffy ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 18:19:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Patents for the physical stuff, vague descriptions for the software standard stuff.
cbartholomew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
100% patents. Go to Google patent look up gaming controller- be amazed.
Waveseeker ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:22:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For the second one I have an answer.
In japan the circle button is/was used to be the select button and X be the cancel button, this was in line with the SNES at the time, but american devs didn't like that, so in the US the X to select layout became the norm and Microsoft used the same layout in 2001
DetN8 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:30:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember a few games like that and it was bonkers. Glyph-wise, "X " feels like cancel, and it was consistent with Nintendo. Now I have an Xbox and a Switch and my inability to switch between them easily makes me feel old and sad.
Stormfly ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:16:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer the Xbox controls because I think of them by colour.
Green means go, Red means stop.
Plus you'll usually be pressing the "go" button more, so it makes sense to have it at the bottom.
As somebody that grew up with them, it's a reason I could never get into Nintendo games. It always felt off.
JigglypuffsBalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean more like a rhetorical โwhy?!โ But thank you for your answer. I understand why they thought this makes sense, but at the same time โ three Nintendo systems had already sold great numbers in the US by the time they made the XBOX. Also...did they not consider just โcoming up with something different?โ It makes no sense to rip off the other guys and do it wrong.
Labubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha MGS1 taught me this in 1998.
'Okay, gotta interact with the elevator'
Crouch-stand-crouch-stand WTF Punch Push Ah, okay
Waveseeker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Even today the metal gear control setup sucks
Labubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, 1 through 4 can definitely be very clunky by today's standards (looking at 2 and 3's pressure sensitive hold ups), but they were absolutely stunning at release...I thought GZ & V was pretty fluid though, but when it comes to MGS I'm definitely biased, 1 was the first time I realized games could be better than movies, 3 is a classic, and 2, Twin Snakes, 4, and 5 were 'buy a console for this' games for me (PS2, Gamecube, PS3 and 4) haha
Waveseeker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
MGSV ground zeroes was my first taste of metal gear, and goddamn was it great.
Felt like playing all the best parts of splinter cell in a neat package.
frezor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:59 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because when you switch platforms, youโll feel awkward and guilty. Youโll search your soul and realize the error of your ways and return to your one true love.
JigglypuffsBalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:40 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Theyโre hateful is why just plain hateful
FifthDragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I use mainly Nintendo controllers, so when I got my Steam controller (which uses XBox layout), it drove me crazy to no end that the A button was where the B button should be
Toysoldier34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fortunately, with the Steam Controller, you can just rebind that to work as you'd like it to.
FifthDragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! Thatโs definitely my favorite feature.
I havenโt figured out how to rebind it for the main Steam menu yet though. Am I just stupid/blind or is that not an option?
Toysoldier34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't recall how to get to it but there is a menu for setting up some global/out of game stuff for the controller and if it was possible I would imagine it would be there. This is also the section where you can setup hotkey stuff.
FifthDragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah nice, ok. I'll take a look sometime
whatyousay69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Xbox uses Sega's layout.
JigglypuffsBalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So theyโre deploying a form of nostalgic spite
whatyousay69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC when the first Xbox came out Nintendo didn't have a 4 button layout so Sega was the only one they could follow (other than Playstation but Playstation uses shapes rather than letters).
JigglypuffsBalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The SNES is essentially a four button layout, just slightly asymmetrical.
The N64 โc-padโ is also a 4 button layout (albeit labeled differently.)
enjoytheshow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man I've been a lifelong user of either PS or Xbox but I bought a Switch about 8 months ago.
I can't get used to A/B X/Y being where they are. I get it wrong 75% of the time and it's driving me mad
Silent0wl01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:52 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably to cause confusion. So you're getting a Nintendo switch, huh? Well good luck adjusting to the new controls lol
WaveStrave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:03:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Then rebind the Buttons??????????
SOQ_puppet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It took courage...
hairway2steven ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:02:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha David Mamet should write a play about the meeting in 2016 where Microsoft execs decide to switch to a revolver.
D-Hustle ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 16:26:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you ask me they should have stuck to their guns.
princess_o_darkness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I appreciate you
Zork4343 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Underrated comment down here
makemisteaks ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:35:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
That really encapsulates Microsoft for ya. Both ahead of its time and, surprisingly, also late to the party.
WorkingSubstance ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right!? I had a Lumia 640 LTE until September 2018. God do I miss the aesthetics of Windows and UWP in a phone format.
puddingfoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Zune was the best mp3 palyer on the market but because the iPod so thoroughly dominated the market and it had a goofy name it was written off as a joke.
Quasiker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:39:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Upgrade!
fuck go back!!
NintendoDolphinDude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:31 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bro res me I have ray gun
DeceitfulRain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:56:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gotchyu with that quick revive bro
whosthedoginthisscen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that was a gutsy move.
Augwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, this is Microsoft we're talking about.
BunsTown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
...and make it green.
secretinternetstuffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
much respect for that zag though
whatsausernamebro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just realised they are not alien guns, they are water guns!
Greg_the_dick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You guys know it was Microsoft who hacked Sony and blamed it on North Korea right?
ebtcard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I am kinda pissed I canโt use a cartoon gun as an emoji, emojis donโt hurt people. People that use emojis hurt people
EggShellBuddyPal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2016 Microsoft: Alright we finally made our gun emoji same as App.....shit.
isek_ ยท 1599 points ยท Posted at 15:26:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ก๐ฌ๐๐ฃ๐งจ
-acknowledged- ยท 912 points ยท Posted at 15:49:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
iโm calling the police rn.
chrisl182 ยท 571 points ยท Posted at 16:24:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฎ๐ฎโโ๏ธ๐. Hello.
aristot3l ยท 562 points ยท Posted at 17:28:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ฟโโ๏ธOh no dont shoot
chrisl182 ยท 321 points ยท Posted at 17:34:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ช
[deleted] ยท 443 points ยท Posted at 18:13:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That ๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ's got a ๐ช
What do we do ๐ฎ? We've only got ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
throw some ๐ at him and ๐
Some men just want to watch the world fire emoji
chrisl182 ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 18:14:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คบ๐คบ๐คบ๐คบ๐คบ๐คบ
mckrayjones ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 18:55:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐นโ๐นโ๐น
SpiralArc ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 00:06:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love this website
XygenSS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:05:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love you
agree-with-you ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:05:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love you both
SpiralArc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love you 3000
stop_being_taken ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 19:21:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ
We got a runner! ๐ซ๐ฎโโ๏ธ
kelaab ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:20:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Aww, how nice of you to keep them cool on their run.
hohenheim-of-light ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:41:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ- - - -๐ซ๐ฎ
yaboi123679085313479 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:56 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Heโs black shoot!!
dunnoanymore18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:49 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ took me 8 seconds to find this emoji, damn samsung
JonnyEthco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:02 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ your ๐ถ๐ผ or theyโll get ๐คข and ๐คฎ all over the ๐
Pannuba ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 19:36:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"We've only got water guns" ๐๐๐ฏ๐
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:06:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In the vein of emojis being changed for the purpose of manipulating discourse and ultimately thought I bet I could get reddit and twitter to start banning emojis by teaching the alt right to use them for hieroglyphic meme purposes, either in the style shown there or in developing purely hieroglyphics.
I could probably make the New york times and get reddit, twitter and facebook to change their emoji policies with just these emojis: ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐จ๐โโ๏ธ๐ถ๐ฟ๐คฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฟโฝ๏ธ๐ฟโก๏ธ in no particular order.
Roisterous ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How much do you bet?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:32:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
1 hilarious 2020 election season against IRL shootings over "emoji violence"
Pannuba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a plan, just like Pepe and ๐. I would add ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผ๐จ๐ปโ๐ค๐จ๐ปโ๐พ and of course, ๐คก๐.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot: ๐ฐ๐ธโ๏ธ๐ซ๐ฃ๐ช๐กโ๏ธ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ท๐ฉ๐ฝ๐ธ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐บ๐โช๏ธ๐๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ค
And all of the black and police emojis.
michaelpaulbryant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:12:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do not forget ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป (it's white power)
hash_salts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Leave David Bowie out of this!
JonnyEthco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:50 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐จ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Mceight_Legs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:36:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My knock off android still has revolvers. Lol
AutumnolEquinox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
myusernameis2lon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You made me say the n-word in my head!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:25 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
HOW DARE YOU SIR; HOW, ABSOLUTELY, DARE YOU?
Sregor_Nevets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:10 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ ๐ผโโ๏ธ
JonnyEthco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:34 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ and ๐ and ๐ฅค should be a sufficient peace offering or we can use our ๐ฑ to call some backup.
frezor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:36 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You only got ๐ซ? Too bad, some of our old friends are outside:
๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
i_dont_factcheck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:42 on June 5, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Cops:๐ฉ๐ฟโ๐ฆฒโ
warox13 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:11:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
40%๐ฎโโ๏ธ๐ค๐ฐ ๐ ฐ๏ธยฉ๏ธ๐
aksumals ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:56:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โช๏ธ๐ซ
kheitba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Great. You had to pick the black guy ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
aristot3l ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:15:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the point, its a comical critique on the current law enforcement system in America
PM_ME_UR_NAKED_TRUTH ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:04:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, just bringing you a snack ๐
FiveFootTerror ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, it's quite refreshing. ๐คค๐
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:57:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like my friend came along, if thatโs ok ๐ฆ
mr24lyfe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thatโs racist
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:03:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm 7% west African
FiveFootTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yet still somehow completely ignorant
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:24:49 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Youโre white
FiveFootTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And my mother has a dog? We're not talking about shit nobody cares about.
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:28:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stop appropriating our culture. You already had us as slaves, and now you tel us what to do. Fucking racist pig
FiveFootTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I missed the part where you were a sad, bitter person that thinks they're much more clever than they really are.
I'm sorry about the fact that no one finds you interesting in real life, so you have to spin nonsense online in order to feel some sort of validation from an interaction. I'm sure you'll find help someday. Check in the bottom of a rifle barrel!
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow looks like a struck a cord in this racist pig. You are self projecting and it is so obvious. Get a real job idiot
DiamondsInTheMuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Screenshot of your most recent comment
I donโt think you get to call anyone racist
https://i.imgur.com/m38xiFz.jpg
WarrenBuffet67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said before Iโm 7% west African and my dick is 9 inches. Donโt see anything wrong here expect a white man telling an African what to do.
Oh the racist world me and my brothers live in. You white people never learn
FiveFootTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Don't denigrate people. It makes you look incredibly racist.
NOTson ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:39:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
AGuesthouseInBangkok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a warrant?
Get off my property.
P33KAJ3W ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฌ๏ธโ๏ธ
P33KAJ3W ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:57:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฌ๏ธ๐
Kegman10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hello. Allow me to introduce myself.
Swobj-Cavathon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Must be from the UK
Twister26000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:50 on October 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/emojipolice how may I help you?
sneakpeekbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:00 on October 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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AGuesthouseInBangkok ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 18:46:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ค๐๐ ๐พ๐ป๐ท๐ธ๐น๐บ
Mechanicalmind ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:31:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Judging by your nickname, that looks like a list of services you offer.
911ChickenMan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:42:28 on September 16, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One of each, please.
AnnualThrowaway ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 17:28:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What's the last one?
Purple-Dragons ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 17:33:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A stick of dynamite, I guess
AnnualThrowaway ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:39:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I guess I don't have that one on my phone.
DetN8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on chrome on Mac and I just see a black square.
Orbitrix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:10:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, i'm on "Sync" (third party Reddit client) on Android, and i just see a box with an X in it (the default OS placeholder for an unknown character, same purpose as your black box)
Chibils ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คท๐คท๐คท๐คท๐คท
Orbitrix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yea weird, i'm getting this on both Sync/Android and Chrome/Windows
Chibils ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You might have an old version of Android, or maybe your phone manufacturer doesn't have a custom emoji for it? (Like how Samsung does)
Orbitrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
maybe... i'm on a fully updated Samsung Galaxy S8+ tho... not that far behind, but i guess its getting there.
throwawaypaycheck1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you just didnโt know what a stick of dynamite looked like. Lol Iโm an idiot
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's a round black bomb with a fuse that's on fire on Android (galaxy)
GiantPurplePeopleEat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:08:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's the second to last one. The last one displays as a vertical rectangle with an X for me (S8+)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh huh, it doesn't even show up if I'm just looking at the comments. It only shows as a box with an X through it when I go to copy/paste
GiantPurplePeopleEat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:11:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm using the Reddit is Fun app, so maybe that's the difference. It usually shows the X rectangle for iOS emojis that I don't have. Damn apple with their elitist emojis!
Orbitrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
No i don't think thats really the last one, there is one after that, that isn't showing up for people. Unless it goes: Bomb with fuze followed by a stick of Dynamite (because i see syringe followed by bomb just fine, and im pretty sure the mario style cartoon bomb is interchangeable with the stick of Dynamite on some systems)? Theres a box with an X through it (OS placeholder for 'unknown character') after the bomb for me, on 'Sync' reddit client on Android. Thats what people are asking about
KINGxDMND ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:14:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐๐ผ
falsethunder3 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:43:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐งช ๐ฅ
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
8:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::0โ๏ธ๐๐
Ummmmexcusemewtf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:02:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What's the least one I get an X block
amalgam_reynolds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โ๏ธ๐ช too
sixgunmaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:31 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โ๏ธ
B3nny_Th3_L3nny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฃ๐ป๐นโ๐ฌ๐๐ฟโ
sykry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โ๏ธ๐ขโ๏ธ๐ข
CaffeineSippingMan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:41:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คฏ๐ซ Swiftkey be ๐คซ
Chorizwing ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:38:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๏ธ๐ถ๐น๐ฆ๐งโโ๏ธ๐
Edit: Sorry guys I think I might have gone too far.
Expect2Die ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:10 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โช๏ธ๐๐๐
ButteredFingers ยท 1274 points ยท Posted at 14:53:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google in 2013 rockin' the blunderbuss
FidelCastrator ยท 394 points ยท Posted at 16:19:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's a good compromise between a modern realistic gun and the goofy ones they're doing now a days
user_48217 ยท 238 points ยท Posted at 17:58:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's the best choice. It's a gun, but just silly enough that you can't threaten people with it and be taken seriously.
HyperExplosion ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 18:35:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Who threatens people with emojis?
Yo son Iโm gonna ๐ you in the ๐ and your whole ๐ ๐ฅ. ๐ฑ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ง ๐. Donโt roll those ๐ฒ fam.
Jombo65 ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 19:14:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm gonna ๐ฃ๐งจโ๐ชโ๏ธ๐ก๐โ๐จ you and your little dog too
APSupernary ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:29:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How do I send back a John Wick emoji?
HughMankind ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:40:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
๐พ๐ก๐ or something like ๐๐ ๐๐ต if you want real Baba Yaga to come.
takesthebiscuit ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:42:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐
Jombo65 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:46:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โ๏ธ๐๐๐
Australienz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ด๐ป
sterling_mallory ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:43:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐พ๐ฏ๏ธ
NotThisFucker ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:12:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ ๐ฏ
GenghisKhan1206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฉ
Weaponized_Puddle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:20:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The hardest part is picturing someone saying "Cat? Dead. Fish? Dead. Family? Dead."
CrumblingCake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:08 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a great film quote tbh
Buttercup_Barantheon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
FYI this is the first Reddit comment Iโve actually giggled out loud to in probably a year. Thanks for the chuckle.
_phedex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're implying who in your comment.
RedditSendit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say I was gonna stab him! I said I'm gonna ๐ช him! what I meant was Butter him some toast! Then he tripped onto my knife, I swear!
ascccsa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'M CALLING THE POLICE
RealistJack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yo son Iโm gonna fist you in the eye and your whole house fire. Cat skull fish skull family skull. Donโt roll those dice fam.
Aconserva3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:29:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm guessing itโs more a dog whistle thing, you comment ๐ซ on someoneโs post to let people know you think they should die.
oscane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
HarryTruman ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:22:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's the equivalent of walking around with a sword nowadays.
krissipo ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 18:41:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Although, if someone was to threaten me, wielding a blunderbuss, I wouldn't exactly take my chances, I'd bet that getting hit with one of those will shred you real good
HarryTruman ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:48:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing with a sword, really. Both are equally terrifying if someone is actually coming at you with either one. Much less both. And I don't think we're the first people to debate this. I bet people sat around in taverns hundreds of years ago discussing this exact scenario...
krissipo ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:24:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, all these antique weapons, are just that, weapons, I mean even a slingshot can do real damage
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Texas recently made it legal to open carry swords.
Texas be wilin' out over here
d_a_f_u_n_k_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:38 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just hang out in London long enough, someone will come at you with a sword
Nonpareil090 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Abraham Lincoln would like a word with you
MPFuzz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:16:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember getting a metal and wood flint lock pistol from Disneyland's POTC store. Now they don't even sell any kind of gun at Disneyland anymore, not even Buzz Lightyear's goofy ray gun.
Neoduckium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not wood and metal, but you can definitely still buy toy swords, plastic flint locks, lightsabers, blasters, classic ray guns, etc. all over Disneyland
MPFuzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The used to, but not anymore. They still have plastic swords, but everything gun related is gone.
Anuscakeess ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:50:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
so stupid, how can any kid even have a decent pirate/adventure fantasy without a gun its just stupid to even pretend. Jack Sparrow has fucking guns and so does everyone else but let a kid pretend hes a pirate but he has to pretend he has a gun too but he has a sword but its clearly fake and now the kid doesn't enjoy pirates anymore.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 16:47:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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M1ndstorms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know man, I'm pretty sure Samsung's emoji is just a painted pistol
odiedodie ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 14:58:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs a flintlock but itโs badass indeed ๐
gartfoehammer ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 16:20:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like a flintlock blunderbuss with the flared tip. Flintlock doesnโt mean pistol, itโs just the mechanism that delivers sparks to the powder.
Aethenosity ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 16:40:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Flintlock and blunderbuss are not mutually exclusive, and describe separate parts of a firearm.
Oryagoagyago ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:33:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You could have a flintlock blunderbuss. You could have a matchlock blunderbuss. You could have a percussion cap blunderbuss. Probably best not to try and precisely identify what the make and model of a doodle is, but if someone put a ๐ซ to my head, then I would say that the bell shaped muzzle does most closely resemble a blunderbuss.
_postingaccount_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:39 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Flint Lockwood
odiedodie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:19 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
STEVE!
Skrrttrrks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
blamb211 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:33:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Petition to bring back the 2013 flintlock emoji
Stoppablemurph ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:15:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, Google doesn't care about how great their old emoji were.. it's all about conforming to the awful standards set by Apple like everyone else...
I get the argument for consistency across platforms, but Google's blob emojis had so much more emotion and were so much more readable than the new ones.
blamb211 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:18:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Blob emojis are best emojis. I feel like there was an app or something that made them available again, but I can't remember...
jlt6666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Blobbies we're the best.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:11:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Shame they switched to such generic icons afterwards.
Slippery-Weasel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
KING K ROOL MAINS DETECTED
tshuldberg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Flintlock
Bjumseskat ยท 1866 points ยท Posted at 15:04:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฃlooks๐ฃlike๐ฃwe๐ฃare๐ฃgonna๐ฃhave๐ฃto๐ฃdo๐ฃthis๐ฃthe๐ฃhard๐ฃway
WITH A MOTHERFUCKING CRUSADE๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ
Sockhead101 ยท 381 points ยท Posted at 15:40:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the sword emoji is magical ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ
octopus_from_space ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 15:56:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐กโ๐ก
chrisl182 ยท 100 points ยท Posted at 16:23:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช
MommyOfMayhem ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 16:36:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คผโโ๏ธ
Iluvhippos ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 16:56:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ด
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:22:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐
jofba ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:24:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
MommyOfMayhem ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 17:48:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That deescalated quickly.
TexWashington ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
thot_waffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ใฐ๏ธ
PochesMagic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:56:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bringing your fists to a knife fight?
EquineGrunt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, as long as it works
Ralzes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Name checks
CrackerJackBunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They are doing the Kid n play dance
TheronEpic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ชโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ช๐ก
Psilocybin_Tea_Time ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:52:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คบ
ScallopOolong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:32:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The fencer emoji is weird. Dressed like a foilist. Bell-guard like an epee. Swinging the blade like a saber. It's almost like it's a mix of all threโohhhhhhhh.
DutchmanDavid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not on desktop it isn't.
bubbshalub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ก๐ก๐กโโโ
Tobymaxgames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:17 on August 26, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ASCII sword is best -]====>
794613825 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:34:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They did many crusades, some of which almost didn't fail.
Rgglea7 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:20:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/unexpectedbillwurtz
Edit:Didn't realize this was a real subreddit until I clicked this to check and I feel blessed
RedChaous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You could make a religion out of that.
KM4WDK ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 15:43:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In the name of the lord, I fly my flag and ease my sword ๐ป๐ฆโ๏ธ๐ก
Mechanicalmind ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โธ๏ธ FOR THE EVER-CHANGING WINDS OF CHAOS! โธ๏ธ
HardLithobrake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
IN THE NAME OF GOD
WaitingToBeTriggered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ต GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY
witsendidk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey UK you gonna ban the sword emoji?
Subofassholes ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:02:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Allllaaaaaahhhhh akbaโ๏ธ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ด
Bjumseskat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:28:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
bitch you didn't even spell it right
Subofassholes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:30:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Honk
Bjumseskat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Honk my junk
Subofassholes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:45:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No thanks.
Bjumseskat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
*HONK HONK*
Subofassholes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:40:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thatโs the spirit.
Amnesigenic ยท 556 points ยท Posted at 13:30:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nickelodeon colors = not scary I guess
[deleted] ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 15:35:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Think about it, have you ever been shot while watching Nickelodeon?
Amnesigenic ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 15:45:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not yet
Tornaero ยท 125 points ยท Posted at 15:56:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean...
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/9-year-old-boy-hit-by-stray-bullet-while-watching-tv-inside-his-cleveland-home
https://m.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/11/23/10-year-old-girl-shot-while-watching-tv-thanksgiving-morning
https://buffalonews.com/2019/04/06/buffalo-teen-shot-on-william-street/
https://www.abc57.com/news/60-year-old-man-shot-while-watching-tv-at-home-in-benton-harbor
[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 17:37:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Proof that guns don't kill people; Nickelodeon kills people.
Australienz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
keep-the-streak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:19:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That wasnโt a gun debate. This is a ๐ซ debate.
Australienz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:45:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ฟ๐๐ผ
gotnonamesleft ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 16:32:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's a real bruh moment
TheMightyFSM ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:41:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
Modyenderreddit480 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
StaniX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh sound effect #2
andersonb47 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If I were less lazy I would bestof this
imissmyoldaccount-_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:18:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes thatโs terrible, we should do absolutely nothing about it ever.
Plethora_of_squids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
muffled woomy
wile_e_chicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Dan Schneider, former Executive Producer for Nickelodeon, is allegedly a pedophile and abused several young actresses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PedoGate/comments/78sklo/complete_rundown_on_dan_schneider_with_articles
Amnesigenic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Horrified but not surprised
tangopup10 ยท 203 points ยท Posted at 14:09:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now for the next step in the line of evolution. Just water.
iamonlyoneman ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 14:58:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hydroxylic acid exposure is a very common cause of death
hardgeeklife ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:19:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
two ๐ฅ๐ฅ parts ๐ฅ๐ฅ explosive ๐ฅ๐ฅ hydrogen, one ๐ฅ part ๐ฅ flammable ๐ฅ oxygen
stewy97 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:03:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hydroxic my dude
gurenkagurenda ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 15:07:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Both are correct.
stewy97 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:18:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Alright then.
I2ed3ye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
keep your secrets
supercyberlurker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:14:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's been proven that 100% of dihydrogen monoxide ingestion cases eventually prove fatal.
Weaponized_Puddle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:21:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/hydrohomies formerly r/waterniggas
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Sepharach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฆ
wladdepol ยท 2645 points ยท Posted at 13:54:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it. Violence is no more.
PBR_Sheetz ยท 498 points ยท Posted at 14:24:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
drowning is on the rise tho...
lol_and_behold ยท 138 points ยท Posted at 15:10:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ban those damn beach ball emojis!
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:14:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fight drowning with swimming emojis! ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ
zdoriftu ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:22:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck! Watch out for those skyscraper waves!! ๐
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐โโ๏ธ
Surf to safety!
zdoriftu ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:50:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
SHARKKKKK! ๐ฆ
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:53:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฅ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ.
Get in the boat!
zdoriftu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:07:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes on a
planeboat!๐dunnoanymore18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฌ๐๐ช๐ฉ OH no! HURRICANE MONSOON THUNDER Category 4!
Sofielle ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:03:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give them any ideas!
3_if_by_air ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 15:11:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Drowning in women from using all these emojis in the DMs
Ehtohie ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:58:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
/u/waterguy12 come save the day
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
He made my sister go sploosh. Can't wait to see what he does to me ๐ฆ
Mr_Abe_Froman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Non-potable water and swiming emojis cancels water emojis out ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ ๐ฑ
๐๐ง๐ฆ
ShowMeNips ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why /r/waterniggas was banned? ๐ค
Tryin2cumDenver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Has been since the 90's. We're the safest we've ever been in history.
Deadwolf_YT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hope you aren't a French bulldog
TheHandThatWipes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, there goes waterproofing in phones
FrederikTwn ยท 192 points ยท Posted at 15:42:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This just isnโt the same
๐๐ซ
raelDonaldTrump ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 16:17:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm seeing the revolver on my phone?
๐ง ๐คฏ๐ซ
TheLoneMudskiteer ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 16:22:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably have android M or an older iOS version.
YouMustChill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on Android 8.0.0 and still have the pistol on the messages app.
JJRicks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:37:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing pistol on Android 8.1 here, Moto G5+
Australienz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:41:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The app uses its own emoji. Your stock Google keyboard will have the water gun.
WashingDishesIsFun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Stock keyboard has a revolver. And so does the Reddit is fun app I'm viewing this on. Android 8.1.0 here.
Australienz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah shit, you're right. I forgot that they added the gun later. I thought I remembered that they added when they switched from the blob emojis in 8.0, but they only switched the gun in 9.0 after the new round emojis had been implemented.
Pannuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just the messages app? Could be an old version, for instance I see Apple emojis only on WhatsApp.
VitQ ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:09:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Weird, all I see is "*******"
0spooky2me ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:11:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hunter2
flibbityandflobbity ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:37:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What's with all the stars?
CaffeineSippingMan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:44:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When you put your reddit password it changes it to all stars. BestPasswordEver
Edit woops forgot to add the! *****************
flibbityandflobbity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
PW : **********
Cool!
MrLeonardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
PW: shenanigans
It's not working for me
flibbityandflobbity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
All I see is ***********
CrunchyMemesLover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Let's test: ishove10carrotsupmyass
What do you see?
flibbityandflobbity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:28:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like this **********************
joe847802 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:40:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Password: Timtomtommgcat
TheConquest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no you have my password! Time to end it all.
๐ซ๐ซ
Afternoongaming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it only says 'hunter2' to you. All we see is '*******'
weiss27md ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:56:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me too.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Using GNU/Linux, see real gun. I knew us GNU/Linux users were dangerous, horrible people. /s
down4things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because we're ๐ and not ๐ถ.
Bigmaynetallgame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same, I have an LG v20. Hmm. ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
buster2Xk ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:55:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was quite fond of ๐๐ซ
FrederikTwn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Upside down smiley why?
buster2Xk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just because it's silly and feels more lighthearted.
Wolf9574 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซolder android? I see revolvers
B3yondL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why but it's funnier now.
[deleted] ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 16:30:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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ImAProfessional1 ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 16:43:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ท๐ซ Like this?
Modyenderreddit480 ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 17:21:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh don't kill Amy Schumer
arefx ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:24:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's the police
Cabbage_Vendor ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:27:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The police is allowed to kill Amy Schumer?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:04:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
[removed]
nixonrichard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:29:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There's just less paperwork if they kill Amy Schumer . . . although they will need to compensate the rancher.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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buscemi100mm ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:23:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is...the gun Amy Schumer? This is getting confusing :(
AndYouThinkYoureMean ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:27:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
bruh dont kill this joke.. ah fuck its already dead
Mailor_Soon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:48:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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ExtratelestialBeing ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Does being kind of bad at comedy really warrant so much hate?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:04:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's not why she's hated at all. Boy have you got a fun 30 minutes ahead of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDxjxVl8S0
down4things ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฎ๐: PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!
user_48217 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 17:56:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, it can be used as a threat of violence, it's a fricking gun image. It's still the user making the threat, not the company. If I can send images to anyone then I can send them one that implies a threat as well.
bumfightsroundtwo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There's so much crap companies do to just stay out of it. They would rather change to a toy gun than have to hire lawyers to win a lawsuit against some dumbass suing a large company hoping on a settlement.
normalmighty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. If a man followed by a gun amoji is a violent threat that can get companies in trouble, then they better hurry up and remove the K Y and S keys from keyboard before another person types "kys"
FlyingRep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Emojis do not imply threats on their own what planet do you live on
user_48217 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One where a 17-year-old in New York was charged with making a terrorist threat on his Facebook page after posting a policeman emoji, and three guns pointing towards it.
FlyingRep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:57:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah charged not indicted. It was thrown out.
You can charge people for anything. He wasnt convicted of anything. fake news.
Myleg_Myleeeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Are you stupid? Youโre bitching at someone who agrees with you. Make an effort and read it again or get your mom to help you read it.
FlyingRep ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:37:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No he doesnt agree with me. Hes sayig emojis by themselves can be implied threats. Why dont you reread what I said
Myleg_Myleeeg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:44:00 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Heโs saying if heโs allowed to send images then he is fee to send an images that implies a threat. Not an emoji idiot. Heโs saying those donโt imply a threat by themselves, itโs the sender that has to make the threat with it. And the sender is free to use any other means to make that threat anyway so why ban emojis. Itโs like as soon as you read the part you didnโt like you blocked out everything else. Go back to talking about fucking animals or whatever you do lol.
FlyingRep ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thats not at all what he said. Hes saying that corporations are free from liability from the threats its users make including emojis which is correct.
Antikyrial ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:27:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But changing the emoji set creates more ambiguity because emoji sets only affect how the device they're installed on displays the character.
If a gun emoji can be a threat, isn't it a problem if a user can accidentally send one on an invitation to a pool party? And if someone is actually threatening your user with gun violence, isn't that probably something you should accurately communicate to them?
WashingDishesIsFun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I would think so. And you would think adding ambiguity to a message on a comms service would be more of a liability issue for the company than simply allowing free speech. But IANAL so whatever.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:35:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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shoe788 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:26:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
lol it never ceases to amaze me when redditors pull the ole ridiculously contrived scenario as a sort of legal stump that no judge/court could ever get past
a harmless pillow could actually be a bag filled with anthrax and bombs! checkmate lawyers!
_______-_-__________ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Give me a break. Who is really presenting a ridiculously contrived scenario? I think that the vast majority of people understand that the image of the emoji isn't actually changing the meaning of the message. The only people who believe this are idiots who put too much emphasis on symbolism.
shoe788 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
that girl is so hot.๐คข๐
that girl is so hot.๐๐ฆ
you're telling me both of these should be interpreted the same way
_______-_-__________ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:22:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, I mean that changing the look of the gun isn't going to change the meaning of the threat.
Also, let's not forget that there's still a keyboard on the phone and if the person wanted to make a threat they could simply type it out. Changing the look of the gun isn't changing anything.
shoe788 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're misunderstanding the change by thinking it's meant to remove someone's ability to make a threat. It's only meant to remove ambiguity from a threat as emojis are not literal written words and often require much more interpretation and context
levilee207 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:58:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just don't see how it fixes the issue. Of course it isn't a gun, but it used to be. People still use it for the same purpose because there's no alternative.
shoe788 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:46:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
it doesnt fix gun vionlence obviously. It wasnt meant to. It does clear up a lot of ambiguity about people making legitimate threats though
Aethenosity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You do realize that acid attacks are on the rise, right? I was joking, but the pillow comparison is pretty weak unless it is actually happening in real life, and often (like acid attacks are)
grocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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shoe788 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
The comment you responded to was talking about a grand jury determining whether or not the gun emoji constituted a legal threat to police.
Idk where the "joke" is in your comment. Seems to me like you're making an argument
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:44:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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IAmMrMacgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna be honest, it's impossible to tell if you're joking or not
shoe788 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:57:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You can use a joke to make a point. I did in my post responding to you. But your joke didn't make sense because your point doesn't make sense.
Gootchey_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not for more than five minutes
Aethenosity ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:09:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Plenty of acids don't react with plastic. I chose that joke because people have done that quite successfully before (acid attacks with squirt guns)
slickwillytfcf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Grand jury "failed" to indict? They didn't indict because they aren't supposed to guess at criminal intent, and people are supposed to be presumed innocent of all charges until proven guilty. An emoji gun pointed and an emoji cop? That is proof of absolutely nothing.
I know cops will complain about it, but they're also the dipshits that choose that job of their own free will, whine about people needing to respect them as though their shiny little badge implies they are somehow above the law or have power, and complain about their job being dangerous when the FBI's UCR shows that it becomes safer every year.
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AllegedlyIncompetent ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 17:52:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In the United States, assault has to be apprehension of imminent harm. And the victim has to be aware of it. Nothing you just listed is assault. Saying to someone's face I'll come back here and shoot you tomorrow is not even assault in the US, as its not imminent. Hell, a New York grand jury didn't even convict the guy you're talking about for assault.
_______-_-__________ ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 18:12:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
This is nonsense. An emoji of a cartoon revolver is no more real than the emoji of a cartoon water pistol.
Also, you have cartoon emojis of other things that don't even exist, such as sci-fi laser guns and aliens.
What are you going to do, claim that me sending you this represents a threat that I'm planning to shoot an intercontinental ballistic missile at you with a alien on board?
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People are just looking for things to be offended about. They want to be too symbolic about everything to justify being offended.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 18:36:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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_______-_-__________ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:42:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You still seem to be putting too much emphasis on symbolic gestures.
I think if you sent a cop a message with a bunch of "water pistols" pointing at a pig's head, the police would still take it every bit as seriously as if you used the older gun emoji. They still mean the same thing.
buster2Xk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:57:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Okay but this still solves no problems because you can still say "I'll shoot you" on the internet.
IgnorantPlebs ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:16:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
that's it. we gotta ban writing
buster2Xk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No communication, at all. It's just too great a risk.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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buster2Xk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:25 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
None, really. It's just lost the meaning it once had.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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buster2Xk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:17 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
... so they did something that doesn't in any way stop enabling it.
Azara1th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So you'd also be fine with them filtering text communication and muting phone calls based on what you're saying, regardless of context?
What about just cutting all movies rated PG13 or R for violence from their Play Movies service and blacklisting them from google searches?
Trying to Disney-fy our communication isn't their job. They provide a platform, they aren't the arbiters of our society's communication.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Azara1th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fallacy fallacy you guys, see it right here! Also, failed to grasp a basic point. You're fine with censorship of one sort (emoji) and I asked if you'd be fine with the same censorship on text rather than emoji. Same concept, different medium.
They don't get to make a choice what they're "associated" with as a communication platform, any more than AT&T should restrict your phone service if you make unacceptable speech.
It's that simple.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:57:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Azara1th ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:58:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How pathetic... Typical Dem.
slickwillytfcf ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:32:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or people aren't pussies that need to be offended and scared about everything they come across.
feedback_youth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well then we need a different definition of assault
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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BigLebowskiBot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.
feedback_youth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When I'm assaulted, I know it without checking my inbox. Care not for legal definitions
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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feedback_youth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm right, and the law is wrong. Who's the dumbass?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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feedback_youth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps you could use a lesson in right-thinking, as opposed to blind obeissance.
RobertAntonWilson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps lots of people are provided with inadequate educations precisely because the state would prefer a stupid obedient proletariat to an educated and revolutionary constituency.
feedback_youth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right on, dude. I don't think the "perhaps" is necessary.
Azara1th ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So... Does this put you in a state of fear of imminent harm?
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Should any image of something dangerous be censored? At what point are you crossing a line and limiting speech in the interest of a false sense of security?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:38:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Azara1th ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's so simple: they are a comms platform and have no right or obligation regarding filtering or controlling speech.
It's too bad you aren't able to understand simple things and instead spout the fallacy fallacy and try to justify your terrible argument by just repeating it and proclaiming it simple.
RobertAntonWilson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like YOU don't understand what an assault is.
sumthingcool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Proceeds to give a completely wrong definition of assault. LMFAO.
WashingDishesIsFun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, dude's never even heard the term 'battery' I imagine.
GeneralPlanet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:06:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People just really, really want to be outraged at "PC Culture".
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:38:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We're talking about emoji's constituting assault, so it's not like it's a stretch.
nixonrichard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I hear letters are used to assault people as well yet most keyboards are COVERED with them, ready to be used for assault.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I also hear text has a bit of nuance. We're a bit far from emoji's becoming a new heiroglyphics, so lets simmer down on banning eggplants and such please.
freddytheyeti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Emojis are a method of communication. Albeit a silly one, but still.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, but they are being ridiculously policed...and I find it to be an empty PR stunt to make people think they actually give a shit about these things.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Assault to most people = getting punched in the face.
Nah fam. That's battery.
Talk shit = Assault
Get hit = Battery
Jura52 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sup. send me 10 bricks of gold over USPS right now.
Capiche?
fordag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That not how it works, thats not how any of this works.
Geometry_Prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So how about if I were to send someone this?
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Wouldn't that, by your logic, suggest I'm going to stab someone?
down4things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? Iโll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Iโve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and Iโm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. Youโre fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and thatโs just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little โcleverโ comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldnโt, you didnโt, and now youโre paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. Youโre fucking dead, kiddo.
vs.
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Deafboy_2v1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about? If I threaten to shoot somebody, the obvious solution is to change the meaning of the word "shoot". Jesus...
/s
BigLebowskiBot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You said it, man.
XxTyraelxX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So why hasn't the knife emoji changed?
The bomb emoji?
The real goal is to make guns and gun ownership (you know, your constitutional right) seem scary and bad.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:02:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What a sad pathetic weakling society we live in
conradbirdiebird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why is the repeated use of the gun emoji, as opposed to only using it once, a factor?
zman9119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Happened in Illinois and the person was convicted (Peoria man convicted for using emojis to threaten police officer
_______-_-__________ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I strongly disagree with this statement for a couple of reasons.
As you said, it is being misinterpreted. By definition the mistake is on their part. You are in no way responsible for someone else's mistakes.
Even with the plastic water gun emoji, the police are still going to charge people with threats if they make a similar post with water guns. That's because you're still representing the same thing.
nopostingforme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If we're gonna go ahead and try and ban ambiguous communication (lol) Half the publishers should have reverted the gun emoji so no one knows which way it's facing.
Azara1th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So... How would this not be construed the same way?
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Or
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Or
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Preventing people from making undesired speech is not Google's job (or Apple, Msft, etc). The government is also not supposed to prevent people from making speech, they can only punish speech intended to incite violence.
BaronVonHoopleDoople ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But anyone can already make threats of violence on Facebook or other social media with words. The ability to also make threats of violence with emojis changes nothing. The only reason to change gun emojis is to avoid the negative PR from a possible moral panic.
RobertAntonWilson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Um... So weeaboo cops can't handle some emojis and tried locking up a black kid for Facebook messages.
Fuck the police
geppetto123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it's really sad that those Unicode Gremiums are full of US people. We get highly limited by their beliefs and we still miss all body parts (beside maybe the nose and ears) and many more. Why not have both guns, a real one, a shotgun and maybe even a toy gun. There are also twenty versions of family types and skin colors, why limit the variety there.
In general: It's a sad joke that US still keeps pushing its nippel free and sex taboo propaganda on the entire world with it large companies. Meanwhile other countries have much stricter violence laws and they learned to adapt to the new world. Time for US to follow regarding the others things.
Jimmy_is_here ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's bullshit. If that was the case they'd remove all the other violent emojis.
PostFailureSocialism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The actual reason is that they're trying to eliminate guns from the public space to make them less socially acceptable. You're watching newspeak be created right before your eyes.
Blaizeranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What if I use the water pistol emoji then bludgeon someone to death with a water pistol?
GarretTheGrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I would still take threats with a Super Soaker 50 seriously though.
FunkrusherPlus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:33 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Are you trying to explain logic and rationale on a reddit thread? I wish you luck.
CriticalTake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
so if I type a terrorist threat on a facebook page we should blame who made the comment font or the keyboard firmware that allowed the letters to be arranged in a harmful way?
someone used the emoji to threat the police and they went after the emoji? I'm no pro-gun or anything, but that's a sick reasoning
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:36 on May 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bro imagine rolling into prison and saying you posted some emojis on Facebook
FashBug ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:57:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I guess LG wants me dead.
P33KAJ3W ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:54:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
แ( แ )๐ซ
ArtigoQ ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 15:26:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Throw up a couple "gun free zone" signs and there we go. Cant bring guns in there or else you'll be a criminal!
RLutz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:00:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have a CCW and live in a state where those signs do not carry the force of law, but one thing they actually do is eliminate open carry, which I'm fine with.
I carry a concealed firearm for the same reason I buckle up when I get in my car--you never know when you might need it, and statistically, people in the US are victims of violent crime at least once in their life around 80% of the time.
That said, I live in a major metropolitan area. I understand that a lot of people here do not like firearms. I don't want to make people around me uncomfortable because I'm not a dick, so I concealed carry instead of open carry even though it's my right to do either.
Practically speaking, I think concealed carry makes more sense anyway. If some bad guy was planning on robbing a store, shooting the clerk, and then taking the money, and then he sees you with your gun on your hip, his plan will change to, shoot you, then shoot the clerk, then take the money.
icecadavers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:42:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's why open carry never made sense to me. Congratulations, everyone can see your gun, very badass. You've established yourself as a threat, which in practical terms only means you're scaring people who don't need to be scared, and telling potential attackers to shoot you first.
furlonium1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There's no strong, emperical evidence of that.
Oh christ.
You don't think some people prefer OC because it's more comfortable? In your world you should only carry a firearm if you've got an IWB holster?
jamesmontanaHD ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:27:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
legit question - if gun free zones dont do anything, why have any in the first place... should the white house, congress, airports, elementary schools, etc allow people to bring in assault rifles?
Tectum_of_Midbrain ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:15:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thereโs a difference between a gun free zone with a sign at the entrance, and a gun free zone with metal detectors and guards at the entrance.
ArtigoQ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:41:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a psychological thing to make people feel better. The only people it's going to stop are law abiding citizens that conceal carry. Frankly, it doesn't matter one way or the other because the only people who are going to pull a gun on anyone for any reason are evil people with bad intentions that aren't going to be swayed by a sign.
Certainly you can decide if you want citizens to have guns or not on the premises, but I hope no one thinks this will prevent an active shooter situation.
jamesmontanaHD ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
obviously there is more than just a sign designating congress a gun free zone - you have to go through metal detectors. i cant imagine making a place like a hotly debated congress floor open to regular citizens with guns...
ArtigoQ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:59:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, not really a reason or need, for that matter, in a place that already has LEO/armed security. As to why some commercial business might have the signs I cant really see a reason to deny a citizens rights considering they might be the only defense in an active shooter situation.
Gundealsaddict ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:07:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The point is that the sign doesn't do shit. It's the enforcement, aka good guys with guns, that keep people from trying to shoot up those places. Put 30 highly trained Secret Service agents as protection for a school and you won't see any shootings there either.
GhostOfEdAsner ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:11:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right, so we'd just need about 4 million secret service agents. Currently there are... let's see... about 4,500. Well it's a start! This is totally a realistic plan!
Gundealsaddict ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:24:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't. That's the point.
dontbothermeimatwork ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
All the places you listed provide armed security except the elemntary school. If you are going to disarm people, it's your duty to provide them effective security. The movie theater puts up a gun free zone sign and the most security they have is a teenager verifying stubs? Fuuuuck off.
slurpyderper99 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:22:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Next if we can just get plastic straws banned everywhere, weโll solve global warming!!
caifaisai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know too much about the plastic straw issue. I've seen it referenced being banned in places, but not where I live. I haven't done much research into whether it would make a big difference or not. I don't think anyone pushing for it really thinks it's going to solve global warming alone, but there is something to be said for incremental changes that make a positive impact on the environment though.
As long as research shows said changes will make a sufficiently positive change, even if they cause a minor inconvenience for some people, it's still probably a good thing to implement in most cases.
Catacomb82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hello Skipper.
El_Impresionante ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:16:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Think again!
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still to Come: Sulfuric Acid Super Soaker
Wolf9574 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฆ๐
GOTEEM!
Boamere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh I read this in skippers voice
glennettbennett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ well duh, theyโre not even wearing floaties
restless_oblivion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHA meme.
how memeatic.
memelicious.
memetastic.
SeaTwertle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:04:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good work everybody, society will thank us in time
rrnaabi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You know, there is this field called "marketing", where they use little nudges, symbols and logos to "encourage" people to do x. Companies and governments and individuals spend billions of dollars on these techniques every year. This is just the same principle, very harmless and easy thing to do, which might have just 0.4% impact, which will still be better than nothing. No need to be so cynical
suburban_hyena ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yay, pool party at your house
SKRIMP-N-GRITZ ยท 455 points ยท Posted at 13:44:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I miss having a gun emoji
Airazz ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 15:02:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Here, you can take mine ๐ซ.
[deleted] ยท 168 points ยท Posted at 16:14:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๏ธปโฆโคโ ๐ฑ
successful_nothing ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:56:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a bikie man from a bikie gang! Living in my crack den making crack.
ajt1296 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:42:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/unexpectedauntydonna
SKRIMP-N-GRITZ ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:32:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha yeah thatโs clever. I meant the revolver, but you knew that. ๐
MrMusscle ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 17:02:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
TFW your phone still run 7.1
ReallyBigRocks ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 17:12:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I miss those blobby bois so much, the new google emojis suck ass.
Wolfy21_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 20:58:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Look how they massacred my boy ๐ข
https://i.imgur.com/apqo9Ry.png
R081n00 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:33:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you root your phone there is a Magisk module that adds them back in
ReallyBigRocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm planning on getting a new phone soon so I'll do it once I get around to that. I don't even know if there is a reliable root for the Verizon LG V20
R081n00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah i use a oneplus, wich makes the whole process really simple. Also the carrier branding could be problematic
jtvjan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Magisk is magic. It only replaces the boot image to get you root and modules (filesystem overlays). That makes it very safe, since if Magisk prevents your device from booting for whatever reason you can just install a clean version of the boot image. It also allows it to avoid detection by SafetyNet because the system partition is never modified.
Apercent ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ญ
imguralbumbot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, I'm a bot for linking direct images of albums with only 1 image
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nicethingscostmoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good bot
imguralbumbot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
thank you
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legionsanity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on 8 but thanks to root I still use the old blob emoji
lemons_for_deke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
TFW when your tablet is 5.1 based but Amazon still removed the blobs anyway
TheTechHobbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My phone can't even update to 8. So I'm stuck with the blob people and the revolver.
Forty_-_Two ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on 8.1 and have the revolver.
Pannuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That psycho smile hahaha
polybiastrogender ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see a revolver.
CaffeinatedGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:11:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This post is how it occurred to me that I see the Samsung emojis. It's green guns instead of the yellow Google one.
Airazz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What you see depends on what device you use. For me it's yellow on Android, green on PC.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You: I miss my gun emoji
Mom: we have gun emoji at home
Gun emoji at home: ๐ซ
Flimsyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still see the revolver. LG gang rise up
f567 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:03:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ubuntu still uses a pistol and there are quite a few others (HTC, Mozilla, LG) who also use it.
Taco_Dave ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:53:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
On the Google pixel and I still see a revolver
Qwiggalo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:24:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What version are you on, I see that exact super soaker in OP. Are you sure you're looking at Google's and not some app's?
RugerRedhawk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I also still see it in google messenger. Is it OS version specific or something?
kn0where ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:26:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, update your software.
Taco_Dave ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:25:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why? So Google can come and take my gun emojis away from me?
NOT TODAY
LuFann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ Got this baby on my moto g6, Android 8.0, google Fi network
SprunjerNutz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:33:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Uh... nobody can tell what you see. We only see what our phone has. I see a revolver because that's what my phone has, technically you could make your gun emoji could look like a rocket launcher and nobody would be the wiser.
LuFann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Idk what you see but I posted the infant emoji.
SprunjerNutz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ever surprise anybody about a pregnancy using emojis on that phone
๐ฉ๐ซ๐
Serotogenesis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's a watergun for almost anyone else viewing your comment so there's no point posting it and saying "got this baby..."
WashingDishesIsFun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You are massively overestimating the amount of people who have a phone capable of utilising the latest version of Android and iOS.
LuFann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know what I see...?
Serotogenesis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:20:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My point is it's dumb to post an emoji and say you have this on your phone. We're aware from context you have an actual revolver and trying to demonstrate is only going to display a watergun for everyone with stuff actually up to date....
WashingDishesIsFun ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:36:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What's up to date? I'm on Android 8.1.0 and have a revolver.
Cm0002 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For those on Android, you can install a third party emoji set that has the gun. You don't even need root iirc
Spread this info far and wide!
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:57:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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creepu87 ยท 139 points ยท Posted at 15:05:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've used it a lot before they turned it into a fucking watergun
Daniel_Laixer ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 15:15:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Those KMS moments :)
[deleted] ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 15:18:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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GroenteLepel ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 15:33:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I always liked this combination better:
๐๐ซ
BorgiaCamarones ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 15:39:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐๐ซ๐ฏ
young_morpheus ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 15:38:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ซ
Pannuba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ง๐ปโ๐ซ
CokeMyName ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:06:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I like this. Wish the gun was real ๐
noneo ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 15:08:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Of course. unless you're having a squirt gun fight, why would you need that.
A regular gun emoji is actually applicable to other conversations. Buying a gun, talking about guns, gun violence, etc. all would be appropriate use of the gun emoji.
Workin_Them_Angels ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 15:13:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used the gun often to convey extremely annoyed with something or someone, like "gun to my head". It just does not convey the same message with a stupid neon water gun.
alexmikli ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:37:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I use it to do like fake threats on discord
Like someone posts a bad meme and I'm all "DELET THIS :gun:"
Or something like :laughing: :gun: to imply suicide over something horrible/funny
SKRIMP-N-GRITZ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:30:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used it with coworkers directly following certain face emojis in reference to how I felt about an interaction with a client and coworker, a project, etc. Iโm not broken up about the loss of the gun, but I miss it, and the squirt gun doesnโt do it for me.
RugerRedhawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When telling a hunting or shooting story I use them often.
ChestBras ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Can't have that, society is just a bunch of irresponsible kids, can't just have them have grown up things like guns to defend themselves, can't even be allowed to express themselves.
Bandic00t__ ยท 407 points ยท Posted at 14:53:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
violence rate drops to 0%
[deleted] ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 16:11:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Watergun drive-by rate soars to 100%.
Kezia-Karamazov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant cause water wars.
fortniteinfinitedab ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:18:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
lol
Microseries ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 13:32:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of them are revolvers. Why is that? Are the other guns like trademark?
ethanwc ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 14:55:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs about iconography and simplicity.
Jackrabbitnw67 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not any more apparently
EzekialCat ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 14:50:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably just that revolvers are pretty recognizable, even when tiny in size.
Ommageden ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 16:59:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Something like a semi auto pistol is harder to convey in a small amount of pixals would be my guess. It's a very 2D looking gun if you just did a low res side profile.
A revolver on the other hand has easy to make depth lines because everyone knows the cylinder is going to be sticking out, and the rest of the gun is in the same plane making it an easy draw.
nomnivore1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:28:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It also has a bit to do with gun facts. Before cheap 9mm autopistols were common, the most common gun for crimes was a .38 special revolver, being the cheapest and most ubiquitous handgun on the market. The change to automatics came roughly around the 80s-90s, shortly before emoji was made. Hence, the gun the designers were familiar with as the ubiquitous sidearm was a revolver, not an auto pistol.
Ommageden ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:49:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Thanks!
TerryTungleman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:20 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Doubt
SpookyLlama ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:47:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Easy to draw and isnโt as โscaryโ.
When I see a glock, I think police or gangs. When I see a revolver, I think โyeehawโ.
Joe__Soap ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:20:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah they probably want to convey the idea of a firearm without any of the negatives like war terrorism or school shootings
ISpendAllDayOnReddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:10 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They should all be roughly the same because when you send an emoji to someone you need to be able to assume they'll see the same thing (or close enough)
chrisl182 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Scraping the barrell is my guess
meltboro ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 18:29:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
next up, cars will be converted to bumper cars, because their fatalities are far higher than guns anyway
CountZeroInterupt ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:51:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Medical mistakes kill vastly more people than guns every year, but there's still a doctor emoji. I think there's even an ambulance and a hospital too.
kristof1018 ยท 308 points ยท Posted at 14:33:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yay we solved gun violence
MaximilianASigua ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 15:11:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And just like that gun violence stopped forever.
Carlozan96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ bang bang
doublesecretprobatio ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 20:23:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And just like that you missed the point.
NormanQuacks345 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What was the point, then?
starlinguk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That it isn't a lovely idea to normalise gun violence?
TheWizardOfZaron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:31:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And a pistol emoji on a phone normalises gun violence how?
"Oh, my friend sent me a gun emoji,guess that means it's normal to shoot up my school"?
starlinguk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was just a random suggestion. I used to play cowboys and Indians and I turned out sane. Ish.
NormanQuacks345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How does that normalize gun violence though?
FunkrusherPlus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Best leave them alone. You can tell a lot of the NRA loonies are in serious pain over that chart.
ZKXX ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:10:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
fun fact i actually shot someone back in 2014 because the gun emoji looked so real
Slackbeing ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:15:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same, dude. Then I stopped dealing drugs back in 2018 because my squirt gun wouldn't let me hold my turf. Completely taken over by dealers with legacy phones.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:38:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Slackbeing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/bad_cop_no_donut
iseeyouwatching99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Damn man, I thought I was the only one, glad you got out too
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What a bunch of pussies
SorenClimacus ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 15:19:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, I feel safe at school again
FunkrusherPlus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well every 3rd grader should feel safe at school.
bwutang ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 14:14:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's one form of gun control
rosscarver ยท 164 points ยท Posted at 15:16:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao I normally don't like to comment on PC culture but man this is kinda sad. Humans have always been garbage murderers, a gun emoji isn't going to change that.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 15:29:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Long-term, the robot's frankly more concerning.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 15:45:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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user_48217 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:02:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Look, I'm sure you're one of the good ones. I'm just saying most robots were raised in a violent culture and I wouldn't want them as my neighbors.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:46:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No offense...
Genjaskin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why was this downvoted?!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Would you please stop fucking robots in a desperate attempt to start the Terminator timeline?
rosscarver ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:00:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Am I out of the loop? Or just stupid? What robots concern you?
TRAIN_WRECK_0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:28:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
AI robots. Can be a infinitely smarter than any human and have 0 value for human life as we are inefficient.
rosscarver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and there are other urgent problems with the world that are already slipping out of control, like climate change. I was talking on a social scale, not a global one.
Aethenosity ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
On a social scale:
rosscarver ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:48:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The decisions humans make now are more impactful on the trajectory of society than the actions taken by a future AI. I agree that ai is an issue that needs to be discussed, but it doesn't make other issues irrelevant.
Aethenosity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No one said other issues are irrelevant. He just said that issue is higher up than the others for him...
SirFrancis_Bacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Considering human's track record I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
cmVkZGl0 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:32:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussy ass bitches. What's next, censoring all past art that depicts "bad things"?
NinthOverlord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
DontDropThSoap ยท 208 points ยท Posted at 15:02:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is sad, honestly. It makes me fear for the future that a picture of a realistic gun is too much for human beings to handle. There are still real guns out there, I'm not sure how much acting like they dont exist is really going go help.
MisterErieeO ยท -33 points ยท Posted at 17:14:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I, personally, think its more sad that people get so upset by this. Its literally means nothing to someone if they change them into squirt guns, yet ppl want to pile on like is an affront to reality. so weird
tsjr ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:31:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It kind of is though. When you're using a gun emoji do you really mean a water gun?
I'm an emoji hater myself, but the reason why I see this is annoying is because it's retroactively changing people's creations. You wanted to have a gun in your post? Now it's a toy gun. You wanted a salad? It's now a vegan salad.
MisterErieeO ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
First, it's the creation of the content provider. And secondly, it's not an incovienence to have such a minute change to a sentence. As in, there are few place the context may change and fewer still where a person would be unable to discern the meaning.
People being upset by the change in the salad is probably some magnitude of 10 higher in the "things that shouldn't bother a person" realm for me. Uff
tsjr ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:09:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Wait, what is? The tweet that you wrote, or the emoji itself created by Unicode consortium? The only creation by the platform itself is an interpretation of the character.
I agree that it's a minor inconvenience, not a big deal and probably not worth getting riled up on. It doesn't change the fact that it's, imho, just a stupid thing to do. You're changing what a character represents. You're failing at the one job that you have as a content publishing platform, and especially when it comes to sensitive topics it could very well be seen as content policing. It may not be a big deal to you, but to some people it may be just as annoying as changing the religious symbol they used to something else.
ValveFan6969 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:03:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How do you think it feels, when someone insults the intelligence of your fellow man? They think a cartoon revolver is too much so it has to be replaced. Ridiculous.
MisterErieeO ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:12:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Weird take, but okay. As far as I can tell none -apart from Microsoft- has even said why. But none of that seems like an insult to my fellow man's intelligence. Lol
Dumeck ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:36:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite emote combo was ๐ญ๐ซ
Loses a bit of its affect when itโs a water gun
MikeyMike01 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:20:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It doesnโt lose a bit of its affect, it loses all of its affect.
The goal was censorship and they achieved it. Sad.
MisterErieeO ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:42:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps to you. To me it seems like less hyperbole, but means pretty much the same thing.
ThePantsThief ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 17:22:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It is though. I don't understand your line of reasoning.
MisterErieeO ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 17:25:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Company changes art for emoji that has zero effect on their lives. Ppl get mad and claim this is indicative of how soft ppl are now. While not saying why that's bad or really providing any reasoning beyond their weird knew jerk reaction to get mad about the move. Its dumb.
ThePantsThief ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 17:28:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it is indicative of something to that note. Not that people are soft necessarily, but that all these companies felt the need to change a harmless fucking emoji from a gun to a toy.
So in the same line of reasoningโฆ it's dumb that they changed it, because it is just an emoji. We're about as upset at them for caring so much as you are at us for caring so much. So you're just like us in that sense.
You're also not providing any evidence why our caring about this is bad. You're sort of having a weird knee-jerk reaction towards us yourself.
MisterErieeO ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 18:21:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
they can change them however and why-ever they wish, thats their prerogative. saying that its dumb is sort of my point. Why is it dumb? why should they not change them? why does it matter if they do?
my reaction is simply pointing out that people are overreacting to something small and inconsequential. while making such robust claims like its an insult to our intelligence or symptomatic that societies gone soft. its really a silly reaction
ThePantsThief ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:03:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's dumb because the emoji is supposed to be a gun, not a water gun. We're not over reacting just because you don't agree the change is silly. You don't have to agree.
Yes, companies can do whatever they want. We are also allowed to be upset about things they do.
MisterErieeO ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Saying this is the result of society being soft or an insult to mans intelligence is the behavior that I said was silly. But okay, just ignore my points.
ThePantsThief ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:07:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I never said any of those. I said it's something along those lines. Personally I think it's purely political and I don't like that Apple felt bold enough to push politics into emojis.
Inb4 "they never said it was political," they didn't have to.
MisterErieeO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:18:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
almost seems like you jumped onto my comment to someone else making an inane statement. hmm
im just going to ignore the unsubstantiated assumption about political motivation. Because I, too, would assume it was probably in relation to some school shooting or related.
how is this bold? was it bold when they made women and different colored emojis? because that was politically motivated,and theres certainly nothing wrong with that diversity.
ThePantsThief ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:10:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're delusional if you don't think it was politically motivated lol
Adding women and different colored emojis are not for politics, they're for diversity / representation
Changing the gun emoji to a water gun, especially with gun violence in America at an all time high, is a way of saying "guns bad"
MisterErieeO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:17:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I literally said it was. its like youre talking to a separate person and responding to me
so... politically motivated.
thats your reactionary opinion.
ThePantsThief ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't associate women and other ethnicities merely existing with politics. Same with cheese and soap and the other emojis they've been adding. They just exist. They should be emojis, because emojis are a part of modern language in a way. It's not political at all, the same way we have a word for "woman" or "Hispanic"
Similarly, the gun emoji thing is definitely political, and here's why:
Now we don't have an emoji to represent a real gun. They've effectively removed a word from the "emoji language"
The Unicode spec says "pistol". It doesn't say "toy pistol" or "water pistol," it's objectively an opinated interpretation of the emoji's description.
MisterErieeO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i did not say you did, but this is the same conversation when emojis were diversified. that it was politically motivated - while its less inline with the statement i was originally replying too, it fits with a lot of the others making the pc narrative claim.
you subjectively state while also asserting the claim that its to mean "guns bad".
NMJ87 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:56:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It matters because if you give a mouse a cookie they want a glass of milk.
However you feel about guns... You don't want the squeaky wheels running shit.
If whoever yells the loudest and cries throws a hissy fit gets their way, we're doomed.
Eventually the PC crowd will cross a line for you, if they haven't already.
My line was like.... Blasting standup comics for telling god damn jokes.
Elevated_Dongers ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:28:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But honestly how is changing it to a water gun solving anything? I had a teacher in elementary school that refused to tell her kid about guns, she said they called them water squirters, not water guns. I'm sure that kept him from learning guns were a thing. Not.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:50:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Kids literally get suspended for finger guns in school.
Azara1th ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:38:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's bullshit. Zero tolerance = zero intelligence.
CptJaunLucRicard ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:44:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing. But, companies change their visual assets all the time, so I counter: What would keeping it the same solve?
If the answer to both is nothing, then why does anyone care about this? Why does changing it upset anyone? It's not different than any other new icon design.
Praesto_Omnibus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:28:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well they chose to change it. Isn't the burden of proof on the changer that that change will make it better?
CptJaunLucRicard ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 18:32:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, because the entire idea that emojis are meant to 'solve' problems is one you're saying. If you claim changing it wont' solve anything, the implication is that emojis are somehow meant to solve things.
They aren't. It's a company changing their assets. Untie the knot your panties are in and just get over it. Who the fuck cares?
Praesto_Omnibus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:34:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think the intention was pretty clearly related to the fact that there are problems
Elevated_Dongers ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:58:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it's like if they made the word gun autocorrect to water gun. Different emoji, different meaning.
CptJaunLucRicard ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 18:00:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, it isn't the same at all, and that's stupid. Please answer the question: What is solved by keeping it the same, or changing it back?
Elevated_Dongers ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:09:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Emojis are becoming a part of everyday language. It's just ridiculous because it's like they think taking away a 'word', if you will, will solve something
CptJaunLucRicard ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 18:18:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So the answer to the question is, "None", and you just don't want to say it, then?
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:43:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People aren't mad they're annoyed. It would be like if every time you tried to say fuck it got turned into frick. Next this ๐กwill get turned to this ๐ฅ
09f911029d7 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:05:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They're already confiscating assault spoons in the UK
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Zero effect? Nah. I hate downloading any apps, yet I got so sick of emojis not being displayed on my phone (and not being able to send them), that I downloaded an entirely new large texting program onto my Android just so I could download the emoji supplement.
BASK_IN_MY_FART ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:48:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If it literally means nothing then what's the purpose of changing them in the first place?
MisterErieeO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
that they can. doesn't really matter
BASK_IN_MY_FART ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:29:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt they changed them all to squirt guns just because they can
If it really didn't matter, they wouldn't have changed them. There's an underlying reason.
MisterErieeO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That hardly matters as well though. I should have been more specific perhaps. I dont think ALL of them made the change for little reason, just that it is hardly a reason to be annoyed.
echo_oddly ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:13:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It goes against the purpose of the Unicode consortium. From the first line of the Unicode Wikipedia page (emphasis mine):
By changing the picture displayed, they are drastically changing the representation of the symbol. A squirt gun is NOT remotely similar to a pistol in ways such purpose, effectiveness, legality, danger, etc. They are entirely different things. So now, writings from before the change will be displayed on new devices with an entirely different meaning. If they wanted a squirt gun emoji, they could have added a new emoji for it, and even removed pistol from the emoji keyboard and put in a squirt gun. That doesn't affect previously written works. That wouldn't go against the purpose of Unicode.
The whole thing is akin to having a filter which changes the word "gun" to "toy" whenever you view a website, even if the website was written before the implementation of the filter, and the author meant to write the word "gun". So by changing the displayed word they are changing the meaning of past work. This is an example of a memory hole and it is dangerous.
Nevasky ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 18:50:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
the responses to you pretty much highlight your point perfectly
MisterErieeO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:56:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I dont normally point out that kind of irony because it seems a bit like generalizing. But someone really tried to say that removing the egg from the salad was "retroactively changing people's creations". They appeared to be serious
Nevasky ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:05:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i see it kinda often when it concerns artists changing their own work for personal reasons, and it really irks me that so many people have that opinion
[deleted] ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 18:46:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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VanillaTortilla ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:06:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not so dramatic, but PR moves do have impact. Otherwise, they wouldn't be made.
gentlegiant69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:49:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
just 1 little simple non issue step in a sea of simple non issue steps towards a pussy society
ThrillHo6 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:05:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Doing away with the gun emoji is such a stupid case of virtue signaling. I dunno if they were trying to appease the big mouth cry babies or just thought it'd help their image.
Zenidiller ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:11:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh no trigger warning, Your committing violence with your words. /s
chrisl182 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:02:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ well I'll be.
ComradeOj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still looks like an actual gun on my end. I guess firefox is safe for now.
hisroyalyesness ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:00:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think google 2013 needs to make a comeback. These redcoats bout to learn.
austinmonster ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 15:05:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Virtue Signaling at it's finest.
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:11:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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austinmonster ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:41:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's a Texas-sized 10-4.
phaze115 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:08:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Squirrely Dan
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Figureit out.
7stringGriffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Squirrelly Dan is kind of a soy boy beta cuck. Always talking about his womenโs studies teacher..
PartiallyGood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:55:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Virtue faking
grottohopper ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 16:59:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean? How is this virtue signalling if the companies are doing it to preempt legal concerns over when using a gun emoji constitutes an actual threat?
You must at least admit it's a grey area, telling someone "I'm gonna shoot you" is different from posting their picture on Snapchat with a bunch of gun emojis.
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AndYouThinkYoureMean ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:29:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
why would you make such a definitive statement on something you know nothing about? oh shit, i forgot i was on reddit for a second..
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AndYouThinkYoureMean ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:34:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/bqvj71/evolution_of_the_gun_emoji/eo8ma19/
lemonchicken91 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:26:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It has happened and is the reason behind these changes. A facebook post with a gun emoki pointing at a police emoji was used in court against a guy. Its like IRL when someone does finger guns at a cop, they can get booked on assault.
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:53:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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brutinator ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:59:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But now when you do it with a water gun emoji its not a threat any more?
FlyingRep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:02:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And guess what they didnt indict hin cause it was bullshit.
Also it was the guy not facebook that was held liable. You can make death threats without emojis.
Elevated_Dongers ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:46:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
actually
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Elevated_Dongers ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know that, it's probably more of them trying to save people from themselves. No gun emoji, no one going to prison for criminal threats using a gun emoji.
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orbit222 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:31:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In this age where a bad tweet or joke from years ago can have you removed as a director from a blockbuster movie or from hosting a high-profile awards show, where violence is blamed on video games, etc., I can see these companies distancing themselves from any issues in the court of public opinion by dumbing down violence-related emojis with kid-friendly versions.
_______-_-__________ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:20:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They better take away the keyboard, too, because a criminal can use those letters to type out an actual threat.
austinmonster ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:13:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2060: We've all had our hands surgically amputated as a preemptive way to prevent crime and hate-emoji speech. The board game industry as suffered.
austinmonster ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:11:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's virtue signaling when it's tech companies changing meaningless things that don't really have any effect on the world to try and show others how much they are trying to help the problem - while actually doing nothing that matters.
It's almost the same as changing their twitter icon to a rainbow every march - zero actually change, but SHOWING how woke they are.
thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's only virtue signalling if they're pushing the narrative for their own gain. If they just change it because they thought "hey, maybe we shouldn't be the ones exposing kids to guns at a young age, even though they can still easily find them elsewhere in the internet" then that's not virtue signalling. If they do it because they want to show how woke they are and put out a press release then sure.
austinmonster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They are pushing a narrative. The narrative is that "Guns are so dangerous that even a PICTURE of a gun is dangerous!" It is virtue signaling because they are trying to visibly show that they are "on the right side" of an issue, while doing nothing that actually contributes to fixing that issue.
It's all about visibility, not actual solutions.
thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're assuming these are monolithic companies with the orders coming down from the CEOs. That could be the case, or it could just be the dude who draws the emojis thinking that maybe he could try to help the issue. Also, I believe that FB and Twitter have previously tried different approaches to limit violence and stuff like that, but it's a complicated issue and goes way beyond what a social media company can seriously affect.
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's emoji. It's not complicated. They are tiny pictures that represent things.
It's not a very complicated, really.
thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know what an emoji is, what does that have to do with anything I said in my comment? I'm saying it's not virtue signalling if they're trying in other ways to prevent gun violence, even if changing the emoji likely does nothing.
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you are doing something that is more about visibility than actually fixing anything - it's virtue signaling.
thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What if you're doing multiple things in an attempt to fix the issue? I hate this reductive definition of virtue signalling because it's misused to try and discount any minor progressive steps. It's not virtue signalling if they honestly think it will make a difference (whether they're correct in that belief or not), and inconsequential actions aren't virtue signalling if they're part of a larger and consistent effort.
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see your point, but we'll never really know why they did this. In my mind, it looks like virtue signaling because this change will have exactly zero effect on the world. I'm not sure if it's virtue signaling, or a corporate "Cover your ass" maneuver. Either way, I doubt it's done as a genuine fix to a problem.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, in responsible ways. I don't think an emoji is educating anyone about gun safety
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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thisismyfirstday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I worded my initial comment poorly - I didn't mean to say anything on whether changing the gun emoji was a good thing or not. I was just saying that if they honestly thought it would make a difference (regardless of actual results), that it's not really virtue signalling.
user02965 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
lets all take a moment to recognize that some people unironically think this is how it works. take a moment... and laugh.
mace_guy ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:30:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Like you are doing now??
austinmonster ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:50:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or you are doing by pointing that out.
See how that doesn't work?
DasBaaacon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So because he is also virtue signaling it means that you are not?
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work out. He's not VSing, neither am I.
mace_guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:00:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How are you not virtue signaling?
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not making a token gesture that fails to address the larger problem to show others how woke I am.
mace_guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:56 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You are making comment on reddit about corporate wokewashing that fails to address the larger problem to show others how woke you are.
Also from that definition even changing the gun emoji is not virtue signalling.
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:27 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
False equivalency. Try again.
mace_guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:49:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. But tell me what is the difference between you and them?
austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:33 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you need me to explain the difference of one individual with an opinion and a multinational corporation who's driven by share-holders to improve profits at all costs, then there isn't much hope for you.
mace_guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:59:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So only coorporations can virtue signal?
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 18:41:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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austinmonster ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:49:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work that way.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 19:25:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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austinmonster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not an argument, just a statement. Pointing out that someone is doing something wrong isn't the same as doing something wrong yourself.
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austinmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:19 on May 23, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No.
MiddleEntertainment ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:06:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Twitter looks like they mostly stick to their guns.
TrueJeeper ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:52:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
GUN CRIME DROPS TO 0% WORLDWIDE
amphy1891 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:29:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Where is the supersoaker? I want someone to know I really want them dea.. wet
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:04:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tech companies: Well boys we did it. Violence is no more
lewabbit ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:40:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I hate it. Why can't we have a picture of a normal gun?
TinglyTim ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 15:01:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We need semi-automatics, not these revolvers.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:36:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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justins_dad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you need a Tupperware emoji?
OhBarnacles123 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:30:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They've done it, they've ended all gun violence.
karkar01 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"The change of emojis will single handedly - in a very short term - solve the gun violence problem" said no one.
welchblvd ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 15:22:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, has anyone ITT made a sarcastic comment about gun violence ending because of this yet?
sponge_welder ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:47:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so, you can be the first
LeoStrut_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sadly someone beat you an hour before you posted that welch. RIP
ristoril ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:58:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why are they all pointing left?
NMJ87 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:57:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ahead of the game for gen z, easier to make suicide jokes.
Pat_The_Hat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:48:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You'll want it to face the same way so the meaning doesn't completely change when you send it to someone else.
nathew42 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:40:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ALL I WANNA DO IS ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ซ AND ๐ต๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ AND TAKE YOUR MONEY
klineshrike ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 15:27:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lets have the most popular video games involve ALL the guns and shooting everything in sight... but don't you fucking dare let people put cartoon guns in their texts by choice.
Worst part is it doesn't matter what it freaking looks like, if your intent was dangerous and you use the symbol its meaning is the same weather its a real gun or not.
FlyingRep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:05:03 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoft literally owns gears of war. A game about extreme violence.
Just virtue signalling
Zerbiedose ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:32:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I want a complete list of deaths prevented by the swap of this emoji
Zerbiedose ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:33:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Found it:
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:16:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
PC culture has gone mad at silicon valley
300C ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:45:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And these same people get to algorimithically demote/promote content, deplatform certain people, and decide what we get to see, or not see. Its horrifying to anyone who cares about the future of the internet. It is the last place in the world where people can freely say what they want. And these major tech corporations are ruining it. Its not in their best interest to let people think for themselves. They want everyone to think and act like them. So much for intellectual diversity.
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:06:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, reddit supports it in large because they agree with the same ideology, but it's clear to see that it's dangerous and it's effects are already showing in some countries.
shdewit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't stopping conversations so who cares.
snoozeflu ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 15:38:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who are all of the sensitive snowflakes out there that can't even handle the sight of a cartoon gun? It's an emoji. It isn't going to shoot out bullets and injure anybody.
JonaldJohnston ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:54:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it โpromotes gun violenceโ or something.
UltimateThrowawayNam ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 17:42:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who are all of these sensitive snowflakes out there that canโt handle the idea that a company changed its emoji? Itโs an emoji. Itโs not creating new regulations.
I can understand where you come from, but it is ironic to use the phrase โsnowflakesโ in this instance.
ButterMyBiscuit ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:45:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If it was just Apple I'd roll my eyes at Apple being Apple, but they somehow got every major company to change from a revolver to squirtgun as if it makes any kind of difference at all to the world.
UltimateThrowawayNam ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:13:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I can understand that position, and partially agree. I guess I could say itโs an emoji, a person seems too sensitive to care one way or the other. But I guess if you feel like it implies about a societal mindset then I can understand. Maybe like the introduction of people of color emojis.
schloky ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:43:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People of colour emojis were never needed imo. You can't represent everyone, that's why the bright yellow was the best.
UltimateThrowawayNam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
With the POC emojis they kept the yellow, so they had both worlds. They could have kept the gun and squirt gun and it would have been cool. But if you feel like the rejection of a regular gun emoji is a signal about a whole societal mindset then maybe you can understand people might feel the same about Poc emojis. Itโs totally fine for you to hold your position but I would just like to create some bridge of understanding, even if you donโt agree. If you are just angry about losing an emoji then someone might say โItโs just an emoji. Relax.โ
schloky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I feel neutral about the skin colour emojis. I just don't find them necessary. Hell, I rarely use emojis. Why would I be angry? Sorry if I gave that vibe.
UltimateThrowawayNam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:10 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh donโt worry about it. I think itโs dumb to remove the gun emoji, I think itโs inclusive to have POC emojis. Like I said itโs fine if you donโt agree with me, and itโs fine to not give two hoots about emoji politics. I just wish to have people understand why someone might have a position even if they donโt agree with it. Like if a family member believes in hell and wants to save me, I can understand why they preach at me even if I donโt believe or agree with it. My top comment on this tried to do this poorly and aggressively and really didnโt work.
AnimalPrompt ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 18:31:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I only see one kind of sensitive snowflake in this comment section.
huck_ ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 20:16:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who are the sensitive snowflakes getting upset by their cartoon gun getting replaced by a cartoon toy gun?
snoozeflu ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:10:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So? Why replace it then? Why not just add the cartoon toy squirt gun right next to the realistic looking gun? Liberal snowflake millennials and their perpetual "everything offends me" outrage virtue signaling culture. Even you, triggered that I dared to make a comment.
huck_ ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 22:29:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You are getting outraged and virtue signaling over a cartoon gun being removed. You could just ignore it.
Flux_7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:27:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You could just ignore school shootings as well since they donโt impact the majority of the population. Oh wait, thatโs not how shit works.
american_apartheid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pro gun, but like, what the fuck are you even trying to say here? Replacing an emoji because of liberal pressure isn't even remotely similar to a mass shooting. Replacing an emoji doesn't hurt anyone aside from sensitive losers.
Why be against PC culture if you just turn around and engage in a different kind of PC culture?
huck_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
no idea what your point is
gotnonamesleft ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:31:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gun violence drops to 0%
Also, ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ซ๐๐บ๐ธ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ซ๐ฟ
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:22:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Gorillaz_RWBY ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 14:11:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Devolution
stewvsshark ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:05:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The first time Microsoft was ahead of the competition from the start
TheNo1pencil ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:49:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I like the ray gun from Microsoft and the original gun from Google
standardnameline ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:55:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank goodness. They solved gun violence with these change of emojis! All hail these tech companies!
tingsy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:05:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If I was a gun manufacturer, I would develop a line of guns that look just like the Emojis so they have to keep changing them. Worst case scenario free advertising
Vic_the_Dick ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Better yet, 3D print them.
MadMonk67 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:55:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine being that overly sensitive about a drawing.
Principfist ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:02:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Snowflake galore
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:37:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Scary to think 6 companies control the way future generations will view things. Personally I think sugar coating everything is more detrimental to society. Life isn't always sunshine and rainbows and shielding children from that fact is going to create a lot of mental health issues in the future.
zoidbender ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:28:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We're being treated like children by corporations for the dumbest fucking reasons.
ryanisacake ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 15:30:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When the world decided to become a sensitive pussy
MisterErieeO ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 17:15:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
like all the ppl jumping in this thread to complain they were changed to squirt guns. ppl are just sensitive to nonsense
Obi-Wan_Kannabis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe you know, this is just a side effect of a much bigger societal movement
TheyCensoredMyMain ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:33:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
GuNs ArE ScARy!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:06:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People get offended by everything.
purple_nail ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Like for example changing a gun emoji into a supersoaker.
Flux_7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:32:39 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, cos the water gun looks fucking lame.
your_daddy_vader ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ok well I better see all movies replace guns with water guns too
Chance_Wylt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
4kids one piece flashbacks
BeckyBadass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Immediately imagined John Wick with squirt guns. Beautiful.
-Chuck-Norris- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why did they do this
Steampunk007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:56:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gun violence drops to 0
Lil_Mafk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:30:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guns are so scary !!! ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
McJensen5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:06:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Yrusul ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 14:52:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
TIL there's a gun emoji.
Feezec ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 15:36:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
well, there used to be
BabyEatersAnonymous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one ๐คทโโ๏ธ
spacemoses ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:23:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'll say it. I don't think this is the right sub.
๐๏ธ WinstonSmith-Corona ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 15:24:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How so?
spacemoses ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:28:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not really a guide. Intention is to hog pile on PC shit, which is fine, but should be elsewhere.
๐๏ธ WinstonSmith-Corona ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:31:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I just thought it was cool.
little_earth ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When reality doesn't cater to your dogma it's not "hog piling on". This is a cool guide; it just doesn't put your agenda in a good light because sunlight is the best disinfectant. Deal with it.
MisterDonkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's got a guide, though.
little_earth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Read the subreddit sidebar. It's a comparison table; it meets the rules.
spacemoses ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ain't got an agenda, buddy. The sun shines on plenty of places, pick a different one.
little_earth ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But we wanted to see this, and it's cool. Don't try to stop people from seeing things.
spacemoses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, your censorship card isn't going to work on me.
little_earth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:44:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're literally saying these facts shouldn't be shown here because you don't like what the political implications of the facts are.
spacemoses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I'm claiming that the content doesn't fit the subreddit theme. Identifying the PC nature of it and the comments was tangential to the main point.
little_earth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, but it does fit the theme and the only reason you're saying that it doesn't is for political reasons. The title and content of the post is 100% politics free and it is a cool guide. Take your political censorship elsewhere.
spacemoses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Then we can disagree solely on the premise that it doesn't fit the theme. If I'm wrong on that so be it.
little_earth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:07:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You are wrong on that and you were wrong to try to get it removed on that illegitimate basis for no reason other than the political/social implications that you didn't like. Shame on you.
spacemoses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Keep fighting the good fight bro
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Literally the first fucking sentence from the sidebar you petulant lead brick:
humblepotatopeeler ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:02:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
lol
the liberals are attacking our emoji's now!!!! OUTRAGEOUS PC BULLSHIT
KIDS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO COMMUNICATE WITH GUN EMOJIS!
fucking babies. seriously, who gives a shit?
tbrozovich ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 15:40:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh people are soft.
drqxx ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 15:03:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
NO this is not a coolguide.
This is the pussification of us because pictures of guns are scary. Its quite pathetic how we have to Nerf โข everything.
K3R3G3 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:03:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We didn't Nerf everything, we Super Soakered it.
Infected356 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:20:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well I mean... itโs nerf or nothin ๐
Roxxagon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:12:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit that Nerf joke was pure genius.
whydidimakeausername ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 15:33:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Waaaaaaah
[deleted] ยท -21 points ยท Posted at 16:26:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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Praesto_Omnibus ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:24:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well as long as bombs and knives are used sometimes, I guess we better change those emojis as well, hmmmmm?
schloky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Blunt objects are used in killing far more people than guns annually in the us. Let's change the hammer into a squeaky one as well, see if the deaths decrease.
drqxx ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:47:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
That is a false argument. There's no correlation between the two events. I like you think school shootings fucking suck, however changing the emoji on your phone isnt going to do shit. I hope you're smart enough to realize that, I believe you are.
IkiOLoj ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 19:58:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well you are the pussy for whining about an emoji. Get tougher.
drqxx ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
True! If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. We have to stop this bullshit!
odiedodie ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 14:57:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A fine example of the pussification of the world
RahBren ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:22:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. People insulting you as a person instead of talking about the point you made. Good ol internet.
odiedodie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:44:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐
Kurumi-Ebisuzawa ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 00:38:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
what do you mean he made a point? All he said was the world is becoming a place full of pussies. I'd certainly be ok with that, considering some questionable morals I've seen in past generations
RahBren ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol.
Kurumi-Ebisuzawa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
also, you insulted my intelligence rather than saying anything. That's hypocritical
RahBren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say anything to you dude. Relax. Enjoy the day.
Kurumi-Ebisuzawa ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 01:06:27 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just hate seeing all this "look at the world, everybody is a pussy now" type shit, because it really isn't indicative of the world at all
RahBren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คฃ
BootScootinBoogieman ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:31:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. My friends and I would constantly threaten each other with the gun emoji and they ruined the joke.
flaneur_et_branleur ยท -30 points ยท Posted at 18:47:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because private companies chose to change an image? You have a pretty low bar there, you overcompensating for something?
JoeRogansChimpArmy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:27:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm glad Apple can so easily deflect the attention of morons by making gun emojis into squirt guns. They finally solved gun violence. Heroes. Heroes that use slave labor. But heroes nonetheless.
flaneur_et_branleur ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:45:38 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, that's kinda my point. It changes fuck all in the grand scheme of things but it's their property to do what they like with. Hardly indicative of a "pussification".
JoeRogansChimpArmy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโd say infantilization is more appropriate but I see what the other guy was getting at.
MisterErieeO ยท -32 points ยท Posted at 17:09:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
what is? your comment, because youre upset that they were made into squirt guns?
herpetronpimplepop ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 22:41:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can you teach me how to be as tough and edgy as you? Please teach me master!
FuCuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Youโre obviously already a sarcasm king /s
maxtitanica ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:34:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Murica: where you can buy a gun, just donโt type a silly image of one
Raddz5000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:42:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty lame imo
PensAndEndorsement ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:51:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
well boys we did it, gun violence is no more.
rotolotto ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:58:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
[laughs in Slack]
sirgryfflet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can we bring Google's blunderbuss back?
Deafiroth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:30:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They may take our guns, but they'll never take our SWORDS! ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ๐ก๏ธ
Aethenosity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:59:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
All I see are tree branches!
f567 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a sword, mate. This is a sword!
SkollFenrirson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple fucking everyone over again
brajpop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But how will our kids know what a gun is now?
rexarski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:04:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Peer pressure.
professorkek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Where's the edgy kid that just changed theirs to an AA-12?
N0ob_C3nTR4L ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it Patrick! We solved the gun problem
nage_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
why microsoft didnt go back to the phaser ill never know but im assuming thats was the same guy that gave the go ahead to pay for live and made the original xbox controllers
BoT_Freeman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
we did it boys, violence is no more
AintThatStanky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Evolution of the pussification of texting.
Pkaz2u ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
any-spare-karma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Taken0218 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have a Samsung note 10 and I still have the revolver. What's up with that ๐ซ
Dharmsara ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine a room full of executives getting paid to debate on this
Zeal514 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Actually terrible. Removing a cats claws doesnt make the cat virtuos in the fact it doesnt claw you, it just makes it incapable. Which is not what you want... very different outcomes
H8te ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoft just had a stroke halfway through.
thick1988 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"MOM THERE IS A ๐ซAT SCHOOL!"
"Oh that's great honey."
feodo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like all you do in school today is having waterfights
imnotagringo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But what if there is acid in the water gun? ๐ซ
donnysaysvacuum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone's complaining about gun emojis. I just want my blobs back.
BIGROARRRRRR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐น fellow archers unite
rugabuga12345 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guys I was going to shoot someone but I don't have an emoticon to express it oh well ๐ซ
porkytool ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it. We stopped gun violence everyone
Matech ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ญ๐ซ
Solkre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Devolution
WTK55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ God bless android
CreepyPsycho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gun violence drops to 0
ScorchMain6123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it boys, gun violence is no more.
Praesto_Omnibus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the dumbest fucking thing ever.
medical_necessity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
love how they solved gun violence ๐
hzfan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People were using the gun emojis in threatening text messages. That's why Apple changed it. Reddit gets its panties in a twist over the most pointless tiny things I swear.
jakrkljalu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had to click "read more comments" like five times before finally coming across a comment (yours) that wasn't a sarcastic dismissal of the change. I see it as a tiny, symbolic step in the right direction.
thepebble500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pathetic
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny that people think this progressive, as if it makes a difference at all
King_Kroket ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:23:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As always with the classic "we're offended by a thing" .. it's people, them, they, those people or the enemy. Who is it actually?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What is this a guide to?
rocketwidget ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This bothers me mostly because it's not standards compliant. Unicode calls it a "gun | handgun | pistol | revolver | tool | weapon" but not a water pistol.
Apple unilaterally decided it would be a water pistol, and the other platforms followed because of a general trend of cross platform consistency (which is good) and Apple is the emoji market leader (perhaps not).
destructor_rph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
LG is still a gun
bluesclues42s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I swear just the other day, I was having my habitual uncontrollable white hot rage fit from seeing dangerous images of guns. Then I realized minutes later that I accidentally brought my water gun to the court steps. The district attorney and I had a good laugh after I realized that I had accidentally sprayed him with water.
Tldr: these emojis work
grandSkoff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:02:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
mysweetjenny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid
RiaModum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is stupid. If someone wants to kill people they'll find a way, even with a squirt gun.
Turbiini ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:10:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it boys we stopped violence
Hardcore_Daddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
I0nicAvenger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:12:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And thatโs how America stopped mass shootings.
EmptyCoast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
this prevented gun deaths.
SteakPotPie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:33:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I want my revolver back. Fucking pansies ruining everything
GiggaWat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thatโll sure to curb violence by pretending guns donโt exist
xxx_TwojaStara_xxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's the fricking least helpful thing to do. Hecking coat hangers
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
oh no... A gun...It's gonna kill somebody... Run smh
80503 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing replacing the gun emoji has reduced the amount of school shootings and police shooting civilians.
MrHyperion_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with the people
HealsGo0dMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if it'll show to you guys but Motorola still has it ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
PillowTalk420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:51:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bring back Classic Gun!
Lunar_Reich ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
didnt know that simply changing a emoji would stop all gun crime wow
Opesooorry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Someone forget to tell me we're prepping for a fire nation attack?
PlsDontPls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So... I guess weโre all gonna pretend that guns donโt exist. Good going tech companies!
the_coff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:20:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I want to listen to ๐ซ n' ๐น, not water pistols and flowers.
RahBren ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So stupid.
Ruckus45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They did it, they stopped people from shooting each other. Way to go tech companies.
one_fishy_boi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can we please get the real gun back? Thereโs nothing inherently wrong with guns, just people
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:33:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's just ridiculous
chipis1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:36:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is some snowflake BS!
DunkinDiabetes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it guys, we stopped gun violence!
The_dog_says ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
LG is apparently still a normal gun.
I just want a pitchfork emoji
JungleMuffin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:54:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My god society is a fucking joke.
xx_l0rdl4m4_xx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it. Gun violence is no more.
prog_d0nkey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple started this bullshit
PhantomForces_Noob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:00:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it boys, violence is no more.
๐ฃ ๐ช ๐
TheKpenguin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:01:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it. Violence is no more.
BeerShitzAndBongRips ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2018: breaking news, firearm crime rate drops to 0% after all gun emojis changed to squirt gun.
vegan8r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
THIS IS โMERICA! ITS MY FORKING RIGHT TO BEAR GUN PICTURES IN MY FREEDOM MESSAGES!!
j22man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Accurate representation of how soft society has gotten ๐
RickStormgren ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:15:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The infantilization of people and communication through corporate image/right-washing never looked so obvious.
JackReaperz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:42:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ก๏ธโ๏ธ๐ก๏ธโ๏ธ Age of sword and sorcery returns โ๏ธ๐ก๏ธโ๏ธ๐ก๏ธโ๏ธ
echo_oddly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This change goes against the purpose of the Unicode consortium. From the first line of the Unicode Wikipedia page (emphasis mine):
By changing the picture displayed, they are drastically changing the representation of the symbol. A squirt gun is NOT remotely similar to a pistol in ways such purpose, effectiveness, legality, danger, etc. They are entirely different things. So now, writings from before the change will be displayed on new devices with an entirely different meaning. If they wanted a squirt gun emoji, they could have added a new emoji for it, and even removed pistol from the emoji keyboard and put in a squirt gun. That doesn't affect previously written works. That wouldn't go against the purpose of Unicode.
The whole thing is akin to having a filter which changes the word "gun" to "toy" whenever you view a website, even if the website was written before the implementation of the filter, and the author meant to write the word "gun". So by changing the displayed word they are changing the meaning of past work. This is an example of a memory hole and it is dangerous.
benso_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Changing this emoji has prevented so many mass shootings. Itโs changed the world for the better!
Gachi_Ricardo_Milos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow imagine how many lives this has saved
AbsolutelyNotKosher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oi! You got a loicense for that whisk?
StivanosD2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It went from normal guns to water guns because pussies didnt like the fact that it was "spreading violence." How can an emoji do that?
x-Lost-x-In-x-Time-x ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:05:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This, this right here is the solution to the mass shootings.
ellokibbers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:17:40 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because guns are offensive
Ven1_Vid1_Vic1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:21:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My first gen iPod Touch hasnโt been updated past IOS 5 so I still have the original gun, Iโm probably on an FBI surveillance list or something
22Davin22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:43 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gun violence has dropped to 0%.
Stream_Deluxe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:34:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sad
charlietangomike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lemme get that blunderbus.
LyeInYourEye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:45:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How is this a guide
ThrowingUpPickles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:03 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
God i hate how easily triggered people are these days.
"Oh no better not trigger with a gun emoji the person who had a friends friends auntys third cousins son killed at school"
Everyone is made of fucking thin glass these days.
Stevefnevil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:49 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As they drown the human race in chickenshit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:19 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I miss the revolvers. Bunch of pussy anti-gun leftists.
Grothendi3ck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ซ
farmercurtis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คช๐ซ
AssaultClipazine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:14:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love how these companies think they can subtly engineer society with emoji
jakrkljalu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty much exactly the intent. Makes it just a *tiny* bit harder to casually threaten shooting someone on your phone, at least graphically.
knot_good ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
TremulousAF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:10:11 on May 28, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
apple: our users are all libtards.. we better do away with the real gun emoji.
two years later:
everyone: the sheeple are getting more anti-gun let's follow apple.
me: i'll fucking use gifs of real guns then.
pyttipanda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:56:22 on June 30, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it guys. Gun violence is no more.
alt_quite_frequently ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:23:01 on August 12, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know this post has died but it's just like the headphone jack.
Apple makes a stupid decision that seems trendy.
Everyone hates it except for a few die hard Apple followers.
The next year everyone makes a point of not following them.
The next year they start to follow suit for some reason.
Now Samsung's joined in and it sucks.
Then everything's been screwed. Thanks Apple.
Subofassholes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Evolution of cuckery,
Purpleguyghostwriter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussies.
AGuesthouseInBangkok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:56:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is total bullshit political correctness.
Guns exist, and they're legal to own. They're fun to shoot, and they're a legitimate hobby and activity, right along with baseball, cooking, and fashion.
Governments also maintain armies and police forces that use firearms.
We have let the most sensitive of pussies dictate what we can and cannot think and say. For shame.
I'm still upset that they renamed the Washington Bullets to "The Wizards," because of anti-gun hysteria. Bullets exist, and are powerful. It was a good name (and metaphor) for a sports team. A wizard, by contrast, is a man who makes it to the age of 30 without ever having had sex. It's not intimidating, and it's not a good name for a team of big, tough black dudes.
Stop trying to take away and erase the existence of firearms.
It's literally the second right in our constitution, after free speech, and without them, the strongest bully can dominate anyone smaller than he, and the weak remain vulnerable and defenseless.
notamanonlydynamite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:14:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Clown World
PORTMANTEAU-BOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Clorld.
Bleep-bloop, I'm a bot. This portmanteau was created from the phrase 'Clown World' | FAQs | Feedback | Opt-out
BootScootinBoogieman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Honk honk
Kurt_blowbrain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:14:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dissapointing
slightlysadist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:52:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
was there any big gun related tragedy between 2017-2018?
ethanwc ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 14:56:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean....yes? Always?
BCSteve ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:46:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is depressing
PretendDGAF ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:08:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Did someone say Chicago?
i_forget_what_i_do ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just not hear about Parkland? Honestly...
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 16:26:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:36:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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GilesDMT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:18:19 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just stop. You donโt have to make up shit. You know damn well you were gonna log on to reddit, not read a book.
IGlowers ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:00 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/woooosh
GilesDMT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:53:01 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ironic
IGlowers ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:50:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What
gullu2002 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:39 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ironic
IGlowers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What
StrongBuffaloAss69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most black mirror shit ever. People Litterally die and companies are like โI know!โ And change an emoji to be green. Good job world. Youโre fucked.
NexusARC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is retarded.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
lexluther4291 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Don't know about that, looks like a revolver to me (pasted from Google Keyboard's stock emoji list).
RegretsZ ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:59:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see watergun
lexluther4291 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:39:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's how it works though, here's a screenshot of what I see.
Aethenosity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How old is your phone? The new emojis are for newer phones which are still getting updates.
lexluther4291 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The keyboard just updated like a week ago, but it's a Nexus 6p.
BTL_Sammy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wack!
ReRix360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
things going spacy i guess
Klayman55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now go back to the formation of emojis in like 2007 or whenever.
RR321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I like when MS went from sci-fi to gangster phase before going all last model super soaker.
Also, Apple, Samsung and Twitter will get killed in a water fight :P
ryry823 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google: k fine we'll be the same. but different
arrowkid2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Clinterpottrmus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซmy gun is still a gun (Samsung)
Locke_N_Load ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/pFKgp6S.jpg
Clinterpottrmus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Must be different versions (I have Android 7.0)
Edit: I'm dumb you have iOS
EL-CUAJINAIS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
TinglyTim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They could sell it as an emoji bundle for 1.99 on the App Store. Glocks, 1911, Desert eagle, Shotgun, MPT, Vector, Ar15, AK47, and bolt action rifle.
Kehndy12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is 2014 and 2015 the same?
SocioEconGapMinder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google, bring back the pirate pistol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฌ๐๐๐
Gavinw2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
zehamberglar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How do we get the 2013 google one to be universal?
AydinUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens.
blascola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung didn't give a damn until the very last minute.
Yeetus-Elitest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google was plundering ships back in 2013
Lastromi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it! Mass shootings are no more!
MutantSharkPirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i clearly have not updated my phone since at least 2015.
Psilocybin_Tea_Time ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ?!
JebusMaximus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ!
savagestag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
/sadguides
passthedutchy420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
keepTruckin420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
0-_1_-0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2018: Gun violence is solved
Big_Duke_Six ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm "triggered" by seeing all of these scary guns! #rimshot
SouthButNotOut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I feel so much safer now.
Oikuras ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you shitty society.
kakatoru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How is this a guide and how it is cool?
darexinfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Next thing you know they'll bring back real guns but it will require both parties to agree that they're over 18.
Nazi_Marxist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wish they didn't turn it into a toy gun
Arenevian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
seran0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it guys! Gun violence is gone now!
Luminous_Fantasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Such a stupid change.
Thank god for custom keyboards and emojis, dont have to worry about any silly trash like this or a fuckin weak ass lookin eggplant.
MasochistCoder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hm. according to the unicode standard, the character represents "PISTOL".
so, none of them conform to the standard anymore. ๐ค
Purpleguyghostwriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How many shootings has this stopped?
falconbox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good job companies. That'll surely stop all the mass shootings!
TherapyByHumour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โDonโt worry, I know Jimmyโs dead, but at least he wasnโt subjected to violent imagery before he was shot at school. Hereโs your hospital and funeral bill, thoughts and prayers.โ
bloberjulia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
feedback_youth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Absolute clownworld
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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CommonMisspellingBot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, electricboy_12, just a quick heads-up:
belive is actually spelled believe. You can remember it by i before e.
Have a nice day!
The parent commenter can reply with 'delete' to delete this comment.
BooCMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey /u/CommonMisspellingBot, just a quick heads up:
Your spelling hints are really shitty because they're all essentially "remember the fucking spelling of the fucking word".
And your fucking delete function doesn't work. You're useless.
Have a nice day!
Save your breath, I'm a bot.
BooBCMB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey BooCMB, just a quick heads up: I learnt quite a lot from the bot. Though it's mnemonics are useless, and 'one lot' is it's most useful one, it's just here to help. This is like screaming at someone for trying to rescue kittens, because they annoyed you while doing that. (But really CMB get some quiality mnemonics)
I do agree with your idea of holding reddit for hostage by spambots though, while it might be a bit ineffective.
Have a nice day!
BooBCMBSucks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey /u/BooBCMB, just a quick heads up:
No one likes it when you are spamming multiple layers deep. So here I am, doing the hypocritical thing, and replying to your comments as well.
I realy like the idea of holding reddit hostage though, and I am quite drunk right now.
Have a drunk day!
CommonMisspellingBot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, BooBCMBSucks, just a quick heads-up:
realy is actually spelled really. You can remember it by two ls.
Have a nice day!
The parent commenter can reply with 'delete' to delete this comment.
VideoNutterhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY SHIT
Kara_Suu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is basically "I am helping!"
RetiredDonut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely still have a gun emoji on Android lol
smokemonkey97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The world is too soft.
the_boss308 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Glad there is no more gun violence, emojis solved it
dadankness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
gay
youngmaster2552 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Everything changed when 4kids attacked
Jrongle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That'll stop the school shootings all right! Just take away the gun emojis and blanket them with thoughts and prayers and they're good to go.
DifferentAnon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this a 'cool guide'
Boring_Fantasy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, I really thought Samsung and Twitter were gonna... stick to their guns
BarBearian2602 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ for me it's still a gun cause I have an old ass phone
Viking_things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because if people see guns as cartoons they turn into psychopaths
ShaneAyers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What happened in 2016 that made apple switch to a toy?
kenisha_martins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ hmmm
peachycreaam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
lol why did Microsoft design a gun for Marvin the Martian
Anthro_DragonFerrite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
BatteryTasteTester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now let's turn knives into sticks and bombs into farts
dhruveishp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
ClassicNet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I miss making my emoji commit suicide
_______-_-__________ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a pretty stupid trend. It doesn't seem to have any functional purpose and is just a lame attempt at steering public opinion.
freshspaghettios ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still don't know why they all changed to water gun. Like damn I was gonna shoot someone but then the gun emoji became a water gun emoji so now I'm not violent
BarfTheChicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Normal - retarded
GTRPrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"Let's pad the floors and walls, and place cameras inside bathroom stalls..."
chaos0510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have the Google Gboard keyboard app and I still have ๐ซ
etienneclerc1997 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That'll take care of school shootings
Atheist_Mctoker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is stupid. Do people really think the gun emoji is a problem?
Can invent an iphone but can't understand symbolism? Changing a symbol doesn't end it's symbolism, a new symbol will just represent that thing now.
I don't see how saying "I am going to gun symbol your face" is different than "i am going to water gun symbol your face"
bobkatpollo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
so we changed the cartoon interpretation of a gun into a more futuristic version? Sure! I guess but what happens when we actually have laser guns? What will the emoji morph into? What a time to be alive!
KopiteTheScot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks America
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คก๐
ChaosKodiak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Phew!! Thank god they changed them! The world is such a safer place now!... ๐๐
highoffsmite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ซ
cav54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The only time reddit uses emojis
SumthingStupid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
PlsHalpHowToFashion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not a guide.
Flandersmcj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐คช๐ซ
Jamato-sUn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
More like degradation
Realsorceror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That retro space gun is pretty great. Iโm also amazed there was ever a flintlock emoji.
XD_MACHINE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
holdmypocket710 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โLetโs demolish gun crime by changing the emoji to a squirt gun. Thatโll totally lower the murder rate.โ
thechaosz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My note 9/ladies S9 still have the real thing, updated to latest android and all.
So this is not accurate? Idk.
EDIT: I'm using google keyboard so this is double not accurate.
Qwiggalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is entirely Apple's fault. Changing it to a water gun changes the meaning, everyone has no choice but to change theirs too. Imagine a mom with an iPhone sends a message to her husband saying she's getting their 6 year old son a water gun and uses the gun emoji, the husband with an Android phone is going to think she's nuts getting their 6 year old a revolver.
TheWebRanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the closest thing to gun control we have in the United States...
BubsyFanboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Forgot to show Linux distros. Most of them still have a realistic revolver.
Centerman2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ wow it's true. Because AMERICA ๐
dabigmb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's the opposite of evolution of guns in US schools.
nitain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Aka: pussifying everything that doesnโt matter while ignoring the real issues
TheRavenousRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We laugh at people who found the exposure of a woman's ankle to be crude in the early 20th century.
Yeah. Don't worry - we're just as prudish and idiotic as they.
Democraticthiccochet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐พ
NiceGuyJoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
now only outlaws can use those emojis
Nemyosel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This definitely helps the anti gun movement and I would even say it is essential to it /s
Theta291 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tbh, I really like the google blunderbuss.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes on you Apple, Iโm still using an iPhone 4!
Donmon95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ Moto z
NETGEAR1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ my HTC didn't get the water gun memo apparently
monkeyboi08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
School shootings eliminated!
Wholatech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I like how microsoft had a toy looking gun then switched to real looking and was like oh shit go back go back
sallabanchod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
NRA is going to be pissed when they find out
michaelcr18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Huawei
Schly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was some commentary on the appearance or quality of each OS or site and was very confused.
Read comments and realized this was literally about the gun emoji on each site/OS and it made so much more sense.
Suto96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Discord still has the revolver as their gun emoji, I wonder if it will change.
Appiedash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
BRRING BLACK BLUNDERBUSS
Dogs-Keep-Me-Going ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I haven't updated my phone in 4 years, because I'm still rocking the classic apple revolver.
AMA.
TheHeroicOnion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's so fucking stupid. We all k ow what a gun looks like and they're censoring that?
SlapStickRick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it everyone great job! Soon violence will be history (then we can re-write it away)
X_Shadow101_X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Smh are y'all dumb or sumthin
๐ Changing ๐ Emojis ๐ Stops ๐ Violence ๐
/s
down4things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ Still got it ๐
Rouge_means_red ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐๐ซ
glassescleaningjuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
LG gang ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
heeph0p ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Twitter late to the game
LiveFromMyBasement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Man, Samsung, Facebook and Twitter tried to hang on to the true pistol emoji for as long as they could.
You could say they really...
stuck to their guns.
Wide_Cat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The Google flintlock pistol is actually pretty cool, I personally think it would be cool for it to return
rdp93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google with the blunderbuss
NosyStranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Get'em while their young,"See kids, guns are fun."๐ต
CrispySith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google and Microsoft should have stuck to their...
guns.
Wolf-of-War ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ Pew Pew
cutebleeder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They took "going green" a bit far...
JustaDuck97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
LowerPerformance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's the ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ
orenak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
antihexe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is dumb. I hate modern media. Ugh.
SithEel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
when your phone is so outdated you still have the gun emoji. ๐ซ
Zee4321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ why do I still have the revolver
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I hate it.
Johns_Fiesta_Life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
1knowsNothing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Nickademas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Googee had it right the first time
djd1ed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google must've switched back, mine is still a regular gun.
RunRunRamses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2018, the day that gun violence died
TheRealMarkTwain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
bring back real gun
ItWorkedLastTime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
/r/emojireview
LeEpicFunkyMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think we all learned from this is that "๐" isn't violent but the old gun emoji was.
Oreonyx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, hello, I would like the flintlock back please, Google Overlord sir
IloveISIS911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โcoolโ
VoopityScoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've still got an actual gun emoji ๐ซ๐ซ
Poop_killer_64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why, why follow apple?
zommavomma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
NRA has joined the chat.
Great-And-twinkieful ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I want the old google one or the old Microsoft one
I_like_PnutButter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:22 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can't wait until it morphs into Han Solo's pistol.
NeverSpeakInTongues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซโ๏ธ
msriram1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For a moment, I thought the picture means, phones made by these companies over the years.. Then I saw Facebook and Twitter
Ohreallysure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I donโt really like guns, but I think itโs stupid and pointless as fuck to shelter people from an image of one and use this shit instead lol. Like I get it, but itโs fucking moronic.
niamhish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
ahmedoooov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
nicholas_vqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google, Microsoft, and Facebook out here flexing with the best Emojis right now
esgrove2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
America: where toy guns are dangerous, drawings of guns are dangerous, but everyone should have a real gun to make things safer.
Eevoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Its_Phobos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see you Google with that super soaker 30
mahfar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Smiilie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google and Microsoft had it correct from the get go, smh.
Ermahgerd_its_Bubba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
TheMarketingDirector ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Which water gun can hold the most water?
give-me-cake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see the actual gun๐ซ
IIIDontGetIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Huawei still has it as normal gun
benchgetier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
phoenyx3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And just like that, tech companies ended shootings altogether.
M1k3Waz0wsk1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
GUN VIOLENCE DROPS TO 0%
300C ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Social justice is good. But too much of it and it becomes regressive and anti fun.
Birthofsith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
TheStupidZombie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซHmmm๐ซ
AppleJuiceSuicide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Detroiter1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, it makes sense though: depressed, schizo, over-medicated teens who didn't have enough parental care and guidance don't kill people; cartoony revolver images do.
Particle_Man_Prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฎ๐ซ๐ผ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ
SmokingPretzels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I swear I'm gonna CUM these niggas so PUSSY. You bitch ass niggas so sensitive you use a fucking WATER GUN instead of a handgun? Damn bruh that'll stop school shootings fo sho. stupid ass niggas
PineappleSooop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good job guys we stopped gun crime
BennyBeast200 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i like how they get less and less violent so they can get monitized
l0gans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
Novelty360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
discord be like
soapy5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/407/241/65c.jpg
Greenwhiteduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
EskilPotet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And then there's Twitch
Ummmmexcusemewtf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซhmmm mine still shows 2016 google
EirikurG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The absolute state of emojis
RobLoach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
holyhow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google had their shit together in 2013. In 2018, there was an attempt to bring that back
Rythescienceguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why are appleโs emojis seemingly so much higher resolution?
Cannibalcarebear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, we only got ๐ซs now so I guess we gotta go back to using๐นs
Somatose_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
wow google was really behind the times in 2013
shoogi_loogi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god we don't have any emojis if guns! Itherwise everyone would be school shooters by now!
MrMadrona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Aliens will think we developed pew pew guns
7777zahar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
allgoode1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People are so triggered now they changed it to a toy
UnSlain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐๐ช
ARV1989 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So we canโt have actual guns because it offends some people but they added the middle finger?
altaccount421 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
TabaCh1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They did it. They endes gun violence.
TinyPook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've saw it about 1 million times.
LuminalAstec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My Motorola is still a regular revolver.
Saphira2002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
jwicc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
magicturdd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Breaking news: mass shootings drop to 0 because tech companies
notveryrealatall2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Bodod_Begag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
I still have a gun bitch
Zepher51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Meanwhile discord keeping it OG
_Dire_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung and twitter really stuck to their guns
LemonSquaresButRound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sad
evenisto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:40 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sad depiction of our times.
collinstral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
SwampSloth2016 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And once they used squirt guns all violence ended. Thanks Silicon Valley thought police!
freegorilla14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Who's offended by a blunderbuss!?! Bring that back!
bonzibrendan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:36:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Turns out. Gun violence has completely disappeared as a result! Good job!
PlanckLengthPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
why even have a gun emoji? thats kind of random. hey lets put a rake emoji next, or a wind chime.
im more likely to use a wind chime emoji in my daily conversations but i dont see one
TeuCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I really like that flintlock design.
dalton_88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Woo they ended gun violence!
UnhappySunshine_PS4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:27 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ mine is still a gun
SomethingPunny69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
joshmaaaaaaans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For real? Lmao no way
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ nope, looks like a revolver to me still.
nhnick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't exactly call that an evolution
HakaishinNola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thats cool, I'll just use the dual blades, or hunting bow on either side of my potable drinking device to take you out.
Dedod_2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โHey boys. Whoโs gonna come down to the ๐ซshooting range๐ซ this weekend?โ
radioactive_arcade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But why
dannylopuz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When you want to get rid of guns in chatting but not in schools...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
willvsworld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐๐งช๐งช๐๐๐งฌ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐งฑ๐จ๐กโ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฅ
baxterrocky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So stupid.
Look Iโm guns people owning guns and shooting people obvs.
But this is just too much.
lusvig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh I hate the water pistols ๐
IAmHamburgerz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ Don't know what you mean
Mine is still a revolver
K_RiC_H ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ?
Manzia26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ nah mine's still a revolver
huttbole01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
omg this saved so many lives u don't even know
Eletrodhil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
oai555 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Unstable-Psycho-Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
d-did 4kids take over emojis everywhere in 2018?
Hamster-Food ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love how Apple changes to a toy gun and the next year Google and Facebook double down with more realistic looking revolvers.
Lorry_Al ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:55 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stamping out hate one emoji at a time
agentSMIITH1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Snipsnapboi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I see this as absolutely stupid, it's an emoji what can it possibly do? Increase terrorism in the world?
Tokestra420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing how something so random like the evolution of emojis can show the downturn of society
magnuzzz90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
the only way to stop a bad guy with a super soaker is a good guy with a super soaker
bensawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You know the combination of a blank smile and the gun emoji really summed up the dead inside emotion that I occasionally need to text.
By nerfing that gun I feel like I had part of my vocabulary removed.
But now I have the shrug emoji so ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Smh microsoft traded in the ray gun for the magnum, reported.
_fece ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐
DaddyRytlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:38 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2018: something changed when the fire nation attacked
dcannon729 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
thisshitisrealrandom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:25 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Twitter didnโt give fucks bout their emoji. R/twitter
MatEngAero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly what is the point besides the tech companies pushing their agendas?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:06 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
TheBitterCatlady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I'll make do with bow and arrow then ๐น
Dynorton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:33 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐๐ซ
NewComputerWhoDiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Some of you guys are alright, don't go to school tomorrow ๐ซ
The sixth graders plan to squirt water on us!
moneyforcolleg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Linkbuscus01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple: releases water gun emoji
BREAKING NEWS: โGun Violence rate DROPS to 0%โ
ledfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:32 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow glad we finally got some common sense gun control.
matrix2002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is so fucking stupid.
Inochimaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
hobbit_proctologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:14 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What a fucking joke.
bludytrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Emoji's got nurfed. Almost literally.
Family_Gardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Buncha milk-drinkinโ kneelers
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, liberals.
rocketpop546 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple: letโs promote anti-violence
Also apple: ๐ฃ
DankNerd97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The whole squirt gun thing is completely ridiculous. Why havenโt these companies altered the bomb ๐ฃ, knife ๐ช, pill ๐, sword โ๏ธ, and dynamite ๐งจ emojis, huh?
jakrkljalu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because we don't have a school bombing or school dynamite epidemic.
DankNerd97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pusillanimous political motives
gatoradenomics ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
lijer71 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:02 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How much of a flower do you have to be for a an emoji to offend you
upvotegoblin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I donโt understand though. Guns donโt exist anymore? I DO understand but itโs just going a little too far
GamerOtaku27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ I've got this
-unpopular--opinion- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I canโt even imagine how many lives you saved!!! /s
supafuz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
pointed finger, xx eyes, smoke emojis still gets across that i hate something though.
thats really all that matters
Albatrousse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
w0210230 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:01 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet... no more gun violence... give yourselves a good ole Pelosi clap
Brydets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yo Motorola has the revolver still
CatfreshWilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:20 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have guns on my android and ipad. Is it cause theyre old?
dudonutdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:06:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
lnsomn1ac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:05 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
tripandfall16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how much of a pussy do you have to be to change imaginary emoji guns
taicrunch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
JMountain26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It feels really dumb trying to emote killing myself with a water gun
Pathfinder24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Being afraid of seeing a gun is like being afraid of saying the word bomb in an airport. It has no impact on actual safety and clouds judgement with security theater hysteria.
10jesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:12 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple always a couple years ahead of its competitors
Satevo462 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because this is how you solve gun violence...
Lexa_Stanton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:31 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They all jumped the gun.
CanadianTwat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
MichaelEuteneuer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Politically correct bullshit. I want my revolver back!
HB675r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ridiculous, there's no sig sauer emoji.That really offends me!
JaesonBee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Was there a reason why apple changed the gun to look more like a toy?
RHCP2323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Let's ban gun emojis but not REAL guns LMAOOOOOOO
IamRedbutGoodkind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What a bunch of pussies
Pokmar1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:21 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When emojis have better gun control than the US
Augy1770 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
thiccness_advocate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:57 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah. I utilized this strategy in my last marriage. Don't talk/think about something for long enough and it eventually goes away. Congrats guys! Getting rid of little gun pictures solved gun violence!
AlvinGT3RS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol Microsoft starting with water gun and then real then going back
MHA_BNHA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:45 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
DefendedCobra29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
bUt MUh 2nD aMmeNDmenT rIGhTs!
TheHobbitPimp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:59 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ ๐ซ
MiddiDawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:03 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not gonna lie. I put off my update on my iPhone bc I knew it was gonna chance my gun emoji. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ as if i was on strike and it would have made a difference.
hoboslayer92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My gun doesnt look like a water gun, i call bullshit, on Android.
shcniper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it we solved gun violence
bathroomstalin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Everything's great now! :-)
PinkLouie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This should be better standardized...
Sabrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
America: "Is THIS gun control?"
poo_licker_420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm kinda irritated that I can't make a squirt gun that squirts. ๐ฆ๐ซ
Big_Banana_Typhoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Srgtfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Sharkymoto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
thats the most snowflaky thing ive ever seen. not using emojis anyways but thats just plain stupid. how should you threaten someone with a fucking squirtgun?
BukovecIsMyLastName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
RodoyotoRev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:08 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
u7zorot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin libtards!!
mackfeesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:17:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember in like 2006 my friend did a project on a computer virus for his class in computer tech or something, and he got suspended for like 1 week because he showed the class how a virus works, using a video.
they suspended him for 1 week saying "that's like bringing a gun to school and promising not to shoot anyone." and he was like "no, it's like bringing a picture of a gun to school." which got him the 1 week.
Kind of glad to see that everyone has changed to squirt guns, which made me remember my unfortunate buddy.
Mmad0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
DerpressionNaps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'll super soak you right in the heart.
kerrykingsbeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:05 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is very triggering.
JohnSteelBigCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Sam_Mendoza18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung kept that mf thang on them for awhile
Grizzly2525 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
See I didn't update Apple so I still got my revolver. Suckers haha
asiangirlsandfascism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Man, we really should thank these tech companies for all the lives they saved with this change.
RIPlurkerstatus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How is it possible that I am the only person upset that this person made time the Y axis???
HOW COULD YOU, OP?!?!?!
jfromstate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
pussies
Garrett4202 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:34:38 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, as of theyโre going to prevent something
DemonicJester09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me sad
Shmyt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
darevants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
_NapoleonBonerfart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
GUN VIOLENCE RATE DROPS TO %0
yaboi123679085313479 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:20 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ซ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ซ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ช๐ซ๐ช๐ซ๐ช๐ซ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐งจ๐งจ๐งจ๐งจ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐งจ๐ฃ๐งจ๐ซ๐งจ๐ซ๐งจ๐ซ๐งจ๐ซ๐ซ๐ช๐งจ๐ฃ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:52 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So from bullets to lasers?
daqwid2727 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing, Xiaomi doesn't give a single F about this, and I still have good old revolver ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
TheFeelsNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:56 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung took as long to update the gun emoji as it does to update android
rocker60 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I guess 2018 is when the fire nation attacked and all other companies had to join with the water nation
dope-priest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:04:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is this because off some shooting last year?
theRLStone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Kaikurura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
LinusDrugTrips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
WarriorWoman360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:20 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao yikes.
LedzepRulz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still fucked up if youโre hydrophobic
tajjet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:01 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
really interesting aside from just the gun thing
apple still had the sort of skeuomorph thing going on with that gun and it fucking sucked, remember that shit? the design choice for teaching boomers how their ipod touch worked. garbage. awful
twitter's flat design was really smart and is what everything looks like now. tough to tell whether they just made a great prediction or if everyone just copied twitter's design philosophy but probably the latter
microsoft and samsung emoji sets just suck, i have a samsung phone so i'm glad i'm online enough to use discord and twitter way more than i actually text people. fuck
speaking of discord, can't wait until they change to the water gun and gamers get mad about pc sjws or whatever. lol
google's flintlock thing is interesting, if everyone had gone to non-gun designs faster it would have worked out and made them look good for predicting it.
not willing to give microsoft that same credit because their designs all suck and always have
seriously, can't get over how samsung's water gun unironically has a fucking gradient in it. it makes me nauseous
Twentyhundred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's kinda sad to see that in the end none of them stuck to their guns.
adbaiy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ mine is still a gun bruv
b1gd1ckBernie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They keep getting worse
KatAttack23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It looks to me like theyโre turning them into squirt guns and nerf guns.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:52 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the funniest thing Iโve ever seen.
DrunkUncleJay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
RainbowSauce13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:17 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung now is ๐ซ
FlippingPossum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Motorola: ๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The current Microsoft gun looks like a Splattershot from the first Splatoon. Is that just me?
unfunnyforcedname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It legit annoys me that they felt they had to do this. Way more than it should.
Sir-Mattheous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My guns still show up as revolvers ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
eatyourbeans246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ bitches
KingRJ14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
toptop600 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Satailleure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bang bang
KookieMunster98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
A_Guy01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
CRIME DROPS TO 00%
UnknownCourage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now everyoneโs gay
masterx1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
gtrask101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow they really ended gun violence with that noble decision to change it to a water gun
The_Big_Lad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing this stopped all gun crime I. The USA
hikerfag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
valp_korv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐who๐tf๐cares๐
MacDaddyTheo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:43 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So ridiculously stupid
Wtfjushappen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:39 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They all look so dangerous
Madramatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Clownworld.
ramay2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
CRIME RATE DROPS TO 0
FearMe_Twiizted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:33 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So whatโs wrong with a gun emoji?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Should have gone the early Microsoft route.
WilliamJLawIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The great water wars begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDzWQ6I7cE4
thegoldengoober ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a violation of the 1st or 2nd amendment? Or both?
ButterBeanTheGreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
BringBackBlunderbus
RangerChasten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:17 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone talks about the Alien gun, we but no one talks about the blunderbuss.
Oktayey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly us members of the gun community are being oppressed and must rise up and overthrow this tyrannical behavior!
XgUNp44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Since they made the change to water guns I think gun crime dropped a couple percent.
CSIHoratioCaine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Cause without gun emojis. People won't shoot each other.
WingedHussar16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Think of all the lives SAVED IN 2018!! ... ... ... Yeah this is stupid.
senseofthebird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me: he says he's going to ๐ซ me
Police: that's just a water pistol
Leftyleftyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
2019 will be a symbol of a snowflake
memeboird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:56 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ???
witsendidk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty fucking stupid.
HillockViable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Emoji guns don't kill people. People kill people.
the_noxious_nub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Weird, Iโm on an Apple IPhone 7 and Iโm seeing the Microsoft 2013-2015 gun
bruhmoment999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How school shooters look when they try to put a gun emoji in their insta post before they shoot up the school but itโs a water gun ๐คก
lolheywassupyall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i miss the gun emoji it was my favorite and made me feel like a cowboy
strange_fishsmell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:08 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
TheGreatCanjuju ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:03 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
WE WANT OUR GUNS BACK! stop trying to take our emoji guns away
TheWildGooseberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Gosh darn, I feel safer already.
ReleaseTheTendies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
c4e_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Love the supersoaker emoji
Lean__Lantern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:03 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is how you know we have a problem in the United States
Paintguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Did super soaker buy out Google?
eggycarrot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
idontfeelsogoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
wakeboarder106 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:33 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's so sad, that now when we want a REAL gun emoji that all we get is some cartoonish crap
RobotWeeb1V6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:56 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot to read the title and then spent 5 minutes wondering how Samsung was considered bad last year
YeltsinYerMouth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:39 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
ribeye14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussies.
Josemsa455 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
crystalistwo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This year is the perfect opportunity to have Rick Deckard's gun from Blade Runner.
mtccizl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
T0MR0M ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
hoboslayer47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This should be called evolution of the sjw.
TheAlfredoSauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:17 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ I still see a revolver
MimicOfPlagy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Violence is no more
Soaring_Eagle_01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:26 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pro-gun and pro-life so just saying that alone just pissed off over half of Reddit users if not 3/4 of them here. I'm here to be a smartass and read other smartass comments while having fun.
As far as the evolution of the gun emoji goes.... Go back to 2013 for all of them.
HGStormy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:19 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
remember when google emojis didnt suck? i 'member..
#bringbacktheblobs
FartHeadTony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's so Microsoft.
brainboy66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:00 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
pussified
ExperiencedSoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ก I will fucking use a sword then
veeroptimus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:32 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
SwiftKey still believes in the realistic portray of the Gun.
Plauge- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ช
garbage_boy_stinkman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing they switched to squirt guns, someone could have gotten hurt
Spokker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oi you got a loicense for that emoji, mate.
Roflolmfao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:52 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ ๐ซ
tessishungry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is why shit is getting flooded
nahte_ecirp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:08 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But y tho what's an emoji gonna do
thekingofthejungle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:31 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Virtue signaling at its finest
HybridKangaroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:18 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Tuur200o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:49 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We did it bois, violence is no more!
tommhan53 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I guess they don't want to offend any snowflakes with real looking guns, they might need a safe place.
Trance2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dat feeling when tech companies have more gun control regulations in their emojis than US society does in real life
TenseiganNerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Huawei still has a revolver.
simo9445 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Someone mass produce a pistol that looks like a water gun
UsmanSaleemS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can anyone explain why everyone changed to water gun? I hate this.
diningPhilosophizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks a lot Bin Laden
Alliera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซmy gun emoji is still a gun ๐
rideordie4weezer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โis that a freakin musket?โ -MALIBU!!
Inwestigator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And year by year chart of how much we are taking gun control seriously...
BobbyAxelsRod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You can change it however you want. Itโs still a gun. Clap clap! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ซ
blackdeathbeatle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nice to see Twitter stuck to their guns
BhinoTL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wasnt even aware Samsung changed it
tempUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That awkward moment when technology companies care more about gun control than the US government...
MrPiggyJelly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think they just stopped gun violence...
theasshole1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:45 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This sure helps.
GoliathOC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:03 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
jangofettsgaycousin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:25 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So fucking stupid
911Carrera4S ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Guns rool
JukedXD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐ซ still a gun
shanethebyrneman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:19 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why do we gotta ban gun emojis? We can buy a gun (in America at least) with no issues but if you want to text a gun emoji then someone might be triggered. No pun intended.
eagle_smesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:02 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Soft ass society
KingIcarus12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Funny enough my j5 still has a revolver..
1Oam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:05 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Test ๐ซ
WaterNigguh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Mine still shows revolver. But I used swiftkey
RD____ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:16 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well done guys, violence is no more
TMVSM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
IzumiKon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:09 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the first thing apple could say they invented without pure lies.
sunfaller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Samsung must be like,
"Hey I heard guns are offensive in the US so we have to change it". "
"really? But I thought they love cowboy movies"
"They're for shooting schoolchildren now"
Pretty sad world
TesticlesTheElder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs like you can see the virtue signaling in real time.
Rexli178 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because if we change the gun emoji to a squirt gun that will do something... okay it wonโt do anything but it will make us feel like weโre doing something positive and taking a stance while literally doing nothing at all... sort of like the plastic straw ban.
Silent0wl01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Tbh this is pretty fucking stupid. It's like banning fortnite or replacing it's guns with something "non-violent" because it promotes crime. If that's the case then fortnite is promoting people aged 4 and up to go out and kill everyone in sight.
Rmangahelp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Quixote_Dog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:27 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And not one glock?
fahrenheit1221 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I dig the 2013 Google relic personally.
HoppedDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
SeTUrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
anerkul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
wheres-the-dent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:22 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The pussification of society.
bubblegumguyYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:11 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Go on a roblox app and type in the gun emoji. That game is for 6 year olds.
iseeyouwatching99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:58 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wait.... So if we just shield ourselves from violence we won't be violence and it just won't exist?!?! Holy shit we fixed the world boys
swamich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
KnowlegeSlayer69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:12 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซwdym
OblivionStar12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:59 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
Crazyfrog2424 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
nogoodgerman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:07 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Evolution of how sensitive and scared and low testosterone humans have gotten
Ytaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:52 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ I STILL HAVE THE REVOLVER
AndreiIoan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:47 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:57 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:37 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Funny how the bomb emoji still exists despite it having more meaning in modern society than a revolver.
FlCoC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like desensitizing guns is either worse or a cop out from gun violence.
I find it weird that young people increasingly dislike guns and know less about them at alarming rates.
anbeasley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:55 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So this is why all guns in the future look like super soakers.
jakekick1999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
Dr_Emmett_Brown_PHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So stupid
wowsomuchempty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google 2013 was the best. Brep brep, pew pew
thismypornreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Evolution of censorship
NosirraH101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:15 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well bois we did it
Dr-Cloudy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:06 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Earth_of_Worms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:43 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ก๐ก๐ก๐น๐ช๐ช
eat_snaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:13 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
*honk*
coconuttookcoconut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Twitter finally caught on
impkidz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:24 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the gun control the liberals want
SuperBeastNoobSlayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:41 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good, now that the emojies are water guns school shootings will surely stop happening
CatalystEXE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:50 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was just on my way to commit a mass shooting, until I noticed that the gun emoji is now a water gun. Thank goodness, the spell is broken! I'm free!
Pandaisguud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:30 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
mayplemoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:17 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have a actual gun :0 ill enjoy it while I can lol
Grzegorz2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:42 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google go forward, Microsoft go back.
DarwinBruz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:23 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I got a Motorola and still have a real gun emoji
Really donโt understand why everyone theyโre all water pistols now completely different meaning
Like what if I send a message to my cousin โIโm coming to lil Johnnyโs party (guns) blazing!!!โ If it shows water pistols thatโs a genuine misunderstanding, need to keep the guns real homies to avoid those misunderstandings
Dank_freak_inc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:34 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it. We stopped violence.
kwul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:51 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
congratulations you just solved the gun problem
harbis12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Discord arenโt water gun tho so ye
CPC1445 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:28 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Jadturentale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:36 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
theirishcunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:29 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Xiaomi phones still have it
feedayeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:00 on May 23, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Test ๐ซ, please ignore.
anonymouslaet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:26 on May 23, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ข๐ซ
thewalter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:42 on May 25, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussies man, PUSSIES. So sick of this political corrective bullshitt.
srobinson2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:43 on May 26, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Microsoft has shitty emojis
AusTF-Dino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:25 on May 29, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well boys, we did it. Gun violence is no more.
lillbich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:50 on June 2, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think itโs backwards making emojis more Politically correct, itโs like auto correcting the word fucking to the word ducking but not having the option to actually write fuck. Itโs kind of like censoring peopleโs language.
raccatacc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:51 on June 5, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Huawei have a normal gun
tanib91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:29 on June 19, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Microsoftโs water gun looks like the WB aliens gun
brenb1120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:30 on July 11, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
LG standing strong
The_Fucking_FBI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:06 on July 17, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still a revolver for me ๐ซ๐ซ
NeRoHaZard06 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:54 on August 6, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse water gun emojis help stop shootings
markb1501 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:42 on August 7, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ass
ShadyShields ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:32 on August 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The pic is gone
Grizzy121206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:21 on August 22, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ๐ซ
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:44 on September 30, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The Americans couldnโt stop murdering each other and ruined the gun emoji for everyone
hachiemachie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:36 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You never know when youโre living in a Golden Age.
E_EqualsDankCSquared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still got the regular handgun ayyy๐ซ
swank69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Cuz libs are scared of guns
L2thunkit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:34 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussificaton of society in movement.
Arklese1zure ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:02:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โDamn, we need to do something about gun violence.
โHow about some law regulating military-grade weapons acquisition by civilians?
โNah, let's just change the gun emoji. That oughta fix it.
NMJ87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
From the scary data ive seen, we're not going to see a drop in mass shootings until we see one with income inequality.
The reason it scares me is that uh... Its not an obvious link, when you say that more unequal societies have more violence people think in their head "yeah poor people are sometimes violent thanks captain obvious" but the worrying bit is that it doesn't have anything to do with income level really -- its a correlation between how unequal a society is and how much violence
I'm worried real real real worried that gun control legislation is going to be passed and then the rate of these incidents isn't going to drop and then folks are going to be convinced that nothing can be done, and even more worrying it will diminish the other good ideas those who would pass gun control legislation would have -- and at the moment the only people in American politics who are speaking about income inequality are the same people who are talking about gun control lol so.. Yeah we're fucked
Arklese1zure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It probably won't go down. America has this really fucked up problem where the ultra-rich just want to get richer at the expense of fucking everything and everyone over. Just look at healthcare bills, student loans, housing expenses and pretty much anything. And since they have the government on their pockets, no one can do anything.
I saw a post some days ago where a hospital charged like a thousand bucks for an EKG. That's what a low to mid-range EKG machine costs. I'd too want to shoot people if they charged me that much.
IDefaultedOnMyDebt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:44:21 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean those "military grade weapons" that are a rounding error on violent crime statistics?
Kurumi-Ebisuzawa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:53 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think regulating military-grade weapons is gonna do? Plus the majority of shooters are using civilian rifles, so gtfo
DarehMeyod ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 16:16:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
The amount of people upset over what companies did to little cartoon guns is sad and hilarious. Like who gives a shit?
Edit: lots of people butthurt over emojis.
swagduck69 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:03:04 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pussy
BootScootinBoogieman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:04 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was funnier as an actual gun. The squirt gun has no humor application.
HardTacoKit ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:00:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They are more upset about this than actual school shootings.
Thoughts and prayers.
IDefaultedOnMyDebt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:40 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think the right is happy when someone shoots up a school?
HardTacoKit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:44 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, I don't think they are happy.
But they don't seem to want to do anything about it. So it's confusing.
But they have "thoughts and prayers". So maybe Jesus can help?
TR8R2199 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:59:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One time this dude wouldnโt stop texting my sister all this creepy shit she didnโt want, so I got his number and started doing the same to him but amped up the 11.
He thought gun emojis would scare me off. And he never figured out it was someone connected to her.
That was a nice bonding moment with my sister I thought Iโd share.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:00:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What information are you looking at that shows violent crime going up at all? General trend for violent crime has been going down for quite a while now, despite the rise in video games somehow.
Workin_Them_Angels ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:19:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
Workin_Them_Angels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:51 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OK... On my phone I entered what looks like a normal revolver. Looking at it on my desk top, it's turned into a super soaker. On my phone it's still the revolver.
peecum_pie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:51:26 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As the world gets more and more faggy
biggz124 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:42:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple stays the leader of the culture ๐ ๐ฝ
TooManyEdits-YT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:52:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Cuccifying of the gun emoji
Mufflee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:11:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bunch of fuckin liberal nonsense. Guns arenโt scary.
Niggatweed ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:19:10 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Shows how pussified we are now
advancedlamb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:52:48 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Glad they changed them, it'd be like if you had c4 or anthrax as an emoji.
Katie2020 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:05:14 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm pretty sure this shows the evolution of the pussification of American culture
Deeznuts39 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:51:35 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol libtards
HockeyFreak_14 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 14:56:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wow very cool apple
Lorettooooooooo ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 15:03:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Meanwhile at the american schools...
Hello_Im_LuLu ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:27 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Apple setting trends.
Murdock07 ยท -56 points ยท Posted at 14:17:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
When tech companies have literally done more to combat gun violence than Capitol Hill...
SweetzDeetz ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 14:51:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, I remember when shootings dropped to 0% when Apple was the first one to change their gun emoji.
RoninCDN ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:48:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
God job boys, we ended VIOLENCE.
Im gonna use a GUN EMOJI
MRS.OBAMA GET DOWN!!
gabehlego ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:47:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ซ
SweetzDeetz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:48:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
oh god oh fuck please donโt shoot
gabehlego ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:48:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Smh Iโm aiming to the left not at you
Murdock07 ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 15:12:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still more action than anyone in the GOP...
โCanโt change one thing and make it go 100% away, best not bother thenโ ? Thatโs some dumb logic
Jewbaccah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:50:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
THIS ISNT FUCKING ACTION DUDE.
All it shows it how much of a ignorant and fearmongered culture they have in the these companies. Jesus christ...
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well even if itโs not action, itโs intent. And the GOP has no intent to help. So Iโm sorry, tech companies still show more compassion for school shooting victims :/
If youโre mad at that, you need help.
Jewbaccah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:54:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
THIS is compassion for school shooting victims? Wtf...
You should be mad that our culture is so fucking childish that all these companies change some emojis from revolvers to water guns because people like you think it means something.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:57:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or so childish that after 20 years of school shootings nothing has been done...?
Oh but yeah, emojis are the problem.
Jewbaccah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:24:47 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, watergun emojis are perfectly fine.
The problem is that people think that replacing a pixeled gun emoji with a watergun is "caring" about school shootings. Sad what our culture has deemed as important. And these major corporations are absolutely wasting their time and resources doing this.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:41 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Persistent images contributes to behavioral output...
Read Blink, itโs a great book. You would be surprised by all the little things that can influence behavior. You may think the gesture of changing an image is useless from your view but you donโt know that, you just feel that...
Yet you get flustered anyway? It just screams a certain... something... hard to put my finger on it
Jewbaccah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:45:15 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're telling me that we are going to influence violence, for good or bad, by an emoji that looks like a gun? An emoji that looks like a gun. On a phone. For texting. Think about what you are saying.
It's preposterous that society thinks it needs to change emojis in order to help curb the bad things in our world.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:52:28 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you read a book once in a while you may learn something new other than your own preconceived view of the world. There are many interesting nuances to behavior. I literally have degrees in neuroscience and have studied the matter. Whatโs your authority?
Jewbaccah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They changed emojis from guns to waterguns for political correctness...
I'm not sure if your neuroscience degree included how fearmongered and ridiculous our culture has become. Your going to need a psychology degree, not a neuroscience degree.
Telling someone to go "read a book" is childish. What's funny is that I actually have Malcolm Gladwell's Blink book on my Amazon wishlist. I'm pretty positive if read it though, Gladwell wouldn't be ignorant enough to think that changing these emojis would have a positive influence on our culture.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:08:24 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Try reading it.
Jewbaccah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:35:52 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're still not explaining to me how gun emojis changing to waterguns will help the world curb gun violence...
Most people think this is ridiculous.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:07 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5:
Iโll put it this way. An eggplant emoji as we all know often implies a penis, but itโs very different from an actual penis emoji. Both represent the same thing, imply the same suggestions. Would you rather normalize people to the graphic image of a penis, or the veggie suggestion of one? Thatโs the simplest Iโll break it down. You should really read Blink, itโs a great book
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So the water gun should be banned as well? Because the eggplant emoji was removed for implying penis and that's exactly what the water gun does. The fake version was even more effective and removed anyway showing that these actions are pointless and mean nothing.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:58 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You missed the point.
Jewbaccah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:24:44 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
People would use an actual penis if it was an emoji LESS than using the eggplant ironically. At least I'd imagine.
Either way, an icon of a gun does NOT automatically imply negative things, malevolence, the degradation of society, or whatever you want to call it. I'm not sure how people are so uptight about that. After crying to apple about the emoji being too violent, they buy their kids some loot boxes for Counter Strike or sit down and watch Game of Thrones with them. It's all bullshit. None of that causes any problems with society. Even if it does, that's not a problem with the image, and thus shouldn't be demonized. It's like saying the movie Saving Private Ryan glorifies war. Couldn't be more wrong.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Youโre trying to prove a negative. Youโre saying it doesnโt help but you literally canโt prove that.
It costs nothing, it may help, it may not. Better than doing nothing. Stop being upset lol.
Jewbaccah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just saying it parallels with something as ridiculous as a network refusing to play a war movie because they cause violence. It's just another stepping stone towards that. It might be small, but it's not insignificant.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You're the retard who thinks changing an emoji has done more to combat gun violence than the Government has in the last 20 years.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:39 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Name 3 GOP gun regulation laws that have passed on a federal level. Iโll wait.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:43 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Changing an emoji is as effective as thoughts and prayers.
SweetzDeetz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:14:09 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Well duh, tech companies are the ones with big pull. Apple is the first bastion against gun violence, I mean, all of the collective 49 million lives saved from an emoji change merits a company wide Nobel peace prize.
Dumb logic is thinking an emoji change does anything.
Murdock07 ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 15:15:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Literally still more action...
SweetzDeetz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:16:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Action doesnโt count if itโs worthless.
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Better do nothing at all then?
SweetzDeetz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:37:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's literally what they did, so yeah.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:38:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Weird logic but ok. It cost them little to nothing to make a good gesture and people are upset about that? Iโm sorry, but how unhinged are you?
SweetzDeetz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:41:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That last sentence doesnโt make sense, but okay. How is it a good gesture though, what does it change? Do you think an aspiring mass shooter looked at his new water pistol emoji and called off his plan? Or it prevented anything? Nope. Itโs stupid all around, your logic more so at this point, not even the emoji.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:41:42 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And youโre mad why?
Seems it had more of an impact than intended.
SweetzDeetz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:43:16 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because your logic is stupid. โHaha they did more than GOPโ but if all thatโs needed is a good gesture, Iโm sure there are good gestures everywhere that arenโt seen because of a majority. Itโs just retarded. Sorry you canโt see that Bucko.
Murdock07 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:18 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude itโs simple math.
1 action is greater than 0 actions.
Dont get mad you canโt handle that truth, kiddo.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:07:56 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There were 50 new gun laws after Parkland in 2018 alone you absolute retard. Keep jacking off your water gun though.
Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:37 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Siri, define โFederalโ
IDefaultedOnMyDebt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:54 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamn what a bootlicker
RoninCDN ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:50:35 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the kind of guy that protests for veganism grocery stores because slaughterhouses are too icky for him.
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha. Oh boy I do love your assumptions lol. Speaks volumes about who you are ;)
RoninCDN ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:22:54 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the kind of guy that intentionally takes sarcasm seriously so he can build his "Days I was Offended" streak to earn his Social Justice Merit Badge.
PerfectDebate ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:23:17 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should do a better job understanding their arguments instead of assuming that you're smarter than an entire political party. The GOP has strong reason to believe that making guns illegal wouldn't solve gun violence, and it's stupid to believe that doing so would reduce it by 100% if at all. Not only that, but there's the moral and practical issue of being able to defend oneself, particularly against tyrannical forces, instead of waiting for others to do it.
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Ok. List a single policy by the GOP aimed to reduce gun violence that passed. Iโll wait.
Edit: still waiting lmao.
PerfectDebate ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:30:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hah, "I'll wait." You weren't talking about this before, only the reasoning of the GOP behind their stance on guns, but if you insist on my giving an example, look into Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:33:30 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Doesnโt matter what your stance is. People keep dying and one side refuses to take even the smallest action. I understand where they come from, and what Iโm saying is that they have done nothing at all to help. Projects and ideas are great and all, but laws and regulation is what we need to keep people safe. Why not just try it? If it doesnโt work then we change it again. Itโs called democracy โthe great experimentโ for a reason. Doing nothing will change nothing. Iโm sorry if thatโs too complex to grasp.
PerfectDebate ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:30:49 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I literally just gave you an example of something that was being done. Are you going to acknowledge facts, or are you just going to deny them and continue changing the goalposts?
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The one that just ramps up prosecution and policing of certain districts? That doesnโt really tackle guns, itโs just more of the same heavy handed policing, nothing new.
PerfectDebate ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:35:48 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because as I explained, the GOP position on guns isn't to ban them but to solve the underlying issues that lead to gun violence.
Murdock07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:29 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Longer sentences, mandatory minimums and militarization of the police is not helping. Itโs actually doing more harm than good, and does nothing to reduce violence... but thatโs cool to keep around why? Meanwhile people get flustered over an emoji because โit doesnโt do anythingโ
Edit: also downvoting every one of my replies makes you look childish.
PerfectDebate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:13 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The Project has had positive effects since it was begun, and it's not just "longer sentences, mandatory minimums and militarization of the police." Look, all this information is out there. Prove your position to me instead of just throwing your feelings at me.
Murdock07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:04:50 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It cost $1.5 billion dollars to fund and most of that went to police. Iโm not throwing feelings Iโm just saying that itโs interesting that cheap alternatives are scoffed at, but if there is a billion dollars to the police thatโs no problem. Other solutions cost pennies, and when dems want to spend $1.5 billion on climate change Iโm sure the GOP would scoff too. I just think there are better ways, and so far none of the solutions proposed have either passed or done much to really help.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:59:53 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If only they could change an emoji to satisfy you. Fucking what?
Aethenosity ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:07:23 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you have to be angry and insulting in every comment, despite that guy being very patient and polite? Anger of that kind is a way bigger driver of gun violence than anything else, so if anything, you are encouraging gun violence with your aggression.
IDefaultedOnMyDebt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:46 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"action" does imply solution or even work towards your goal.
Don't worry I'll keep defending you from a tyrannical government while you try to strip me of my ability to do so.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:46 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
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Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:11 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How can you judge that? Have you seen evidence to support your claims? Iโd like to see it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:08 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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Murdock07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:00 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm not looking to insult you. I just think that even a tiny useless gesture is better than indifference and none at all.
suburban_hyena ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:41:19 on May 20, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
water gun > bullet gun
Typical_Viking ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:25 on May 21, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine being mad about this lmao