Tbh it is actually the "gun" emoji and was changed to a water pistol years ago (after some mass shooting iirc). But knowing why he's doing it now makes me very uneasy.
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Rare, and I mean extremely rare musk W. Changing them to water pistols was fucking stupid and has never and will never do anything to change gun violence in America
I mean, it used to be an actual gun. Then platforms changed it to a water gun because I guess that does something.
Yeah, he actually kind of fixed this one...
(Parkland school shooting was in 2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji#Controversy_and_glyph_changes
Well, if there's one thing that's clear from all this, it's that Microsoft and Google at least used to have some style.
Eh, as others say that emoji has a bit of a history. That said, I very much expect he'll remove all the "DEI emojis" (aka literally any shade who isn't white or classic yellow)
Just yellow is fine, it was fine, it was a single icon that was still representative of all IMO