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

⃠ are

⃠ not

⃠ homophobic

⃠ why

⃠ would

⃠ yall

⃠ even

⃠ think

⃠ that

⃠ 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.

 

[TowinKarz]

Hey, one of you woke folk learn to code and fix that.....

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.

Look at Hillary in 2016..... all that money, all those strategists, publicists, celebrity endorsements, media allies... and she still blew it.

There is no wad of cash big enough that it cannot be squandered on a stupid idea.

 

[JosephTX]

The susbtitle of this thread really should be gays get their pozflag negged

 

[AnOminous]

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?

That's more or less what they want. That's why they want to change the language, so you literally can't say whatever it is that triggers them. Language just doesn't work that way, though, so bad luck for those who want to be the architects of Newspeak.

It is apparently "news" to whatever soynews outlet published this nonsense article that it is possible to put "no" next to "homo" and make a phrase.

 

[Splendid]

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

That's because it more or less just scales down its desktop interface for smaller screens rather than trying to create a "mobile experience" or whatever.

 

[RodgerDodger]

They finally patched in the "No Homo" emote? How Progressive of them. A nice polite way to tell someone that you don't take it in the ass, that crosses all known international language barriers.