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Many people have a more friendly way of using the emoji, but with one side comes another to counterclaim it. “It’s stupid…this emoji is wrong in many ways,” says Alicia Marrufo, freshman at Agua Fria High School. “I just think it’s a meme itself, I don’t support it, I just think it’s funny,” said Sean Pompa, freshman at Desert Edge High School.Įven though most people use it in a humorous way, many people believe it’s wrong. Some people love the new emoji, without using it in a hurtful way. People are using this emoji as a way of sarcasm and jokes. This being introduced to the internet of today has gotten some results. “…Would be not only harmful…but harmful for a community that’s already been struggling to gain support and awareness,” said Kianna Znika, a staff writer at Talon Marks. The LGBTQ+ community already has hard times trying to gain support, and this new emoji doesn’t help. It’s simply a glitch in the system when using Unicode characters.” When Herb Scribner from Deseret News stated a quote from Fast Company, it said, ”This new Apple emoji does not exist. “It shouldn’t be possible,” said Mitchell to Out.
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Using Unicode characters, it is possible to grab an emoji and put a strikethrough circle overlaying the emoji.
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What the real emoji is, is just a glitch in the system. “I’ve been embracing it, but it’s also dangerous for people to use it hatefully,” said Mitchell, the Twitter user who discovered the emoji, on Pink News. This emoji has been discovered for a month before the Twitter user claimed to had discovered it, but didn’t say anything, due to the fear of how it might be used. The emoji is only visible through mobile and not on desktop. The “new emoji” is basically the LGBTQ+ flag with a strikethrough circle that means ‘no’ over it. No emoji can put a positive spin on that.Around February 18th, 2019, a Twitter user, tweeted about a “new emoji” that he claims to have discovered. This isn’t about a difference of opinion it is a potent symbol of the kind of hate that sees LGBT+ people discriminated against across the globe. However, the righteous anger at its enthusiastic adoption by thousands of members of the anti-pride brigade should be interpreted as a token of the frustration of LGBT+ people that homophobic, biphobic and transphobic expression continues to be both freely voiced and seemingly tolerated by those who could stifle it. In this world of corporatised Pride, where companies like Starbucks and Barclays sponsor parades in London, and the ludicrous evolution of the white cisgender heterosexual male into the self-portrayed “forgotten minority” ( Straight Pride, anyone?), it would be incredibly easy, understandable even, to dismiss the anti-LGBT emoji as a distraction from the real issues. Just as racial equality should never be at the mercy of “debate”, queer people deserve the dignity of their equality being a given in 2019.
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However, it seems highly unlikely that Twitter would have allowed it to be disseminated without hindrance, avoiding taking action to ban such usage from the platform. Undoubtedly, the reaction of the majority of users would have been equally as vociferous. One can only imagine the rightful uproar that would have ensued had this particular emoji been replaced with a racist equivalent.