Culture Mobile Twitter users find homophobic bug - no-homo emoji

https://heavy.com/news/2019/02/pride-flag-emoji/
http://www.papermag.com/no-homo-rainbow-emoji-2629424245.html

A pride flag with a strikethrough symbol layered across it has appeared on Twitter. The presence of the emoji has caused a huge stir on social media, with users outraged at what is likely to be a glitch. Tweets about the emoji first appeared on the night of February 18.

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Honey Lemon Daily@rossleonardy
https://twitter.com/rossleonardy/status/1097727955478945792

WHY IS THERE AN ANTI GAY FLAG EMOJI... IM SCREAMING

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11:21 PM - Feb 18, 2019

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The homophobic emoji, which was referred to as the “no homo” emoji by Paper Magazine, appears to only work on mobile and not desktop. The mobile version puts the strikethrough on top of the pride flag while the desktop version puts the strikethrough after the flag. The emoji was not made by emoji creator Unicode. In a statement to Paper Magazine, a Twitter spokesperson said, “The way the emoji appears is due to Unicode presentation on iOS, and on its own is not a violation of our rules. However, if a user is targeted with this kind of emoji, and we have context that the intention is to shame, degrade, or harass based on membership (or perceived membership) in a protected category, we will action under our Hateful Conduct policies.”

TwitterThis is the infamous emoji.

The glitch appears for users if they tweet the pride flag and “banned” together. A Twitter user name Mitchell, who has since changed his handle to reflect the fact that he discovered the glitch, says he discovered the glitch. Mitchell says that he had noticed the flaw a while back and only posted about it on February 19. Mitchell later told Out that he was “shocked” when discovered the flaw. He added, “It shouldn’t be possible. I’ve been embracing it, but it’s also dangerous for people to use it hatefully.”


･ﾟ☆@THNGYN
https://twitter.com/THNGYN/status/1097741064792731648

the church be like: we

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⃠ homophobic

⃠ why

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⃠ haha

⃠ silly

⃠ gays

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12:13 AM - Feb 19, 2019
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The fact that the emoji only appears on mobile should be worrying for Jack Dorsey and co., [URL='https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/']Omnicore says that 80 percent of Twitter users are on mobile.[/URL]

https://twitter.com/THNGYN/status/1097741064792731648
Basically if you tweet a gay pride flag emoji and a banned emoji next to eachother the banned emoji will layer onto the gay pride emoji. Creating the no-homo emoji/anti-gay pride emoji. It doesn't work on desktop.

 

[Sam Losco]

Not surprising. Twitter mobile is utter garbage, and I'm pretty sure it's like that on purpose to push people to get the app.

Edit - I'm seeing the same amount of overlay on both mobile browser and PC browser.

 

[byuu]

homophobic bug

I thought this was a euphemism for AIDS at first.

 

[Draza]

What a bunch of crybabies.

 

[ghostmice]

Not surprising. Twitter mobile is utter garbage, and I'm pretty sure it's like that on purpose to push people to get the app.

Edit - I'm seeing the same amount of overlay on both mobile browser and PC browser.

It shows up like this on desktop and twitter for me.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

No doubt a mistake. Still proof twatter needs to fix shit though. So I'll just lol.

 

[MadDamon]

When you are so well off in life that a small bug in an app bother the hell out of you.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

"The emoji was not made by emoji creator Unicode." - Heavy.com

That isn't what the Unicode Consortium does. They approve letters and scripts to be standardized so that people don't end up with mojibake anymore.

 

[The Cunting Death]

homophobic is a buzzword

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Not surprising. Twitter mobile is utter garbage, and I'm pretty sure it's like that on purpose to push people to get the app.

Edit - I'm seeing the same amount of overlay on both mobile browser and PC browser.

Most social media sites are like that. Tumblr is so bad it used to crash my phone's browser.

 

[AnOminous]

They ought to add some swastikas, lawn jockeys, and nooses to distract from this.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

Most social media sites are like that. Tumblr is so bad it used to crash my phone's browser.

Reddits "mobile friendly" version is worse on mobile than on desktop, because its also terrible.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Not going to lie, I thought this was going to be about bugchasers.

 

[Splendid]

"The emoji was not made by emoji creator Unicode." - Heavy.com

That isn't what the Unicode Consortium does. They approve letters and scripts to be standardized so that people don't end up with mojibake anymore.

They actually do assign standardized code points to agreed upon emoji now. However, they do not decide the emojis' appearance beyond providing their name.
Many individual vendors extend the standard by providing more emoji.

 

[Cool kitties club]

Reddits "mobile friendly" version is worse on mobile than on desktop, because its also terrible.

Yeah every time you click on a post or image it asks you to get the app.

 

[RG 448]

Make it a rating here.

 

[Mender Bug]

The farms is one of the very few sites I know of that the mobile site is just as good as the Desktop version.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

So basically, this "banned" emoji can be combined with any other one, right? It's not just the gay pride flag it layers onto like this, is it?

Because if so... should we also ban the word "Don't" or "Bad"? Could I put those words next to a gay pride flag and indicate a non-approved opinion?

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

IM SCREAMING

It's funny that the article quoted a tweet from that guy, who apparently is entirely vacuous.

The farms is one of the very few sites I know of that the mobile site is just as good as the Desktop version.

It is funny how both Facebook and Twitter have all the money in the world and all of the creamiest engineering talent yet have the worst goddamn websites, especially the mobile versions and their mobile apps too.

I wish there were Twitter clients that didn't require login to follow people, like there is for Reddit. Mofos at Twitter demand a phone number to complete sign-up, no way I'm giving that scummy outfit my phone number.

 

[Cool kitties club]

It is funny how both Facebook and Twitter have all the money in the world and all of the creamiest engineering talent yet have the worst goddamn websites, especially the mobile versions and their mobile apps too.

It doesn't really matter how much money you have if you just spend it on news ways to make targeted adds and steal people's data.