Check the Emojipedia chart. Apple switched from a realistic gun to a water pistol in 2016. Two years later, we see the same move by Twitter, Samsung, and now Google.
A year after Apple made their move to a water gun, Facebook shifted to a more photo-realistic image.
And, interestingly, Microsoft went the opposite direction, moving from a sci-fi ray-gun to a hand gun.
So that leaves Facebook and Microsoft, sticking to their guns. But:
> A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Emojipedia that a toy squirt gun will now be replacing the gun emoji design on Facebook platforms.
Microsoft. Last gun standing.
UPDATE: From Microsoft:
[H/T Adam Hunter]
That’s funny. MS was the only one with a toy gun in the beginning. https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-updates-gun-emoji/
I can understand people wanting to ban real guns, but banning gun emojis that look to “real”?
Thank you, Microsoft, for standing up to the virtue signaling frauds.
next up, removing the word from written language.
And just where is the AR15 emoji?
The NRA is blithely neglecting the battle over emojis, methinks.
Phew, I feel so much safer.
Now where’s that sword, bomb, knife and most dangerous of all cigarette emoji…
Microsoft announced it is moving back to a toy gun as well.
Apple’s looks the best to me as it still has the basic form of a gun, the others seem to go a little to far into the toy realm.
let’s see if hollywood is willing to do the same from tv and movies. yyyyeeeaahhhh…..no. The Matrix with no guns just doesn’t sell, does it?