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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by mikkupikku on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:20PM (#47278015)
I thought it was weird when they made the gun emoji look like a toy.. to make threats seem funny? Or some sort of Sapir-Whorf thing? I don't know, it never made sense.
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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by bombcar on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#47279474)
It was more troubling that it was different - so you send a squirt gun, I see a pistol, but even worse was that it was pointing in different directions on different platforms.
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