In 2010, the unicode consortium approved of a new emoji called Pistol. And companies like Apple added it to their platforms. Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after ...

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Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer ...

X changed its water pistol emoji to a normal firearm, six years after Twitter decided to follow the lead of other companies and get rid of its gun emoji.

Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol.

The squirt gun emoji change comes alongside "more than 100" other changes to Apple's emoji, including more options for skin tones, more women in diverse professional roles, and more detailed ...

Digital archivists refer to these temporal anomalies as zombies. While emoji objects like the gun may retain their original meaning, changed illustrations of faces do not have this problem.

A few years ago, Apple was the first big emoji designer to stop rendering the "pistol" emoji as a real gun. It went from a revolver to a green squirt gun, and other companies have just started ...

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.