By 2018, Google, Meta, and X had followed suit.The Unicode Consortium later renamed the emoji to "water pistol," The Verge notes.. X didn't elaborate on why it decided to restore the emoji, though ...

July 17 is World Emoji Day and in celebration, Stanford University's Green Library is featuring the emoji-inspired artwork of ...

Apple removed the pistol emoji and replaced it with a bright-green water gun in its newest iOS 10 operating system for iPads and iPhones. The change was part of more than 100 new emoji characters ...

Apple announced Monday that they will be replacing the pistol emoji with a green water gun, among other emoji changes, in the new version of iOS 10, CNN reports. ADVERTISEMENT. The ...