Can you believe that the first emoji was only created in the late 1990s? Before this, we could use emoticons, which were just ...

Mr Musk wrote, "Nerfing of the gun emoji matches the rise of the woke mind virus, as a core tenet is equating fake harm with real harm." ...

When it comes to the gun emoji, Apple was the first platform to swap it for the water pistol back in 2016. It also lobbied the Unicode Consortium to reject a rifle emoji.

However, the Unicode Consortium's decision is merely to set 'U+1F52B' as 'water gun,' and the platform will decide how the water gun emoji will be specifically designed.

Commentary Nervous System: The Great Emoji War Emojis are ubiquitous today, but they were once brand new communications territory. The differences in how they rendered on different operating ...

Originally designed as a syringe, the emoji is becoming more popular as people get vaccinated. Apple’s latest redesign reflects this evolution.

In recent years, few emoji have caused as big of a stir as the gun — both for what it looks like and what it represents, or represented, at least. The pistol was released as part of Unicode 6.0 ...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced in recent days that they will both swap out their handgun emoji for a water gun, following the lead of Apple, Twitter, Samsung and others.