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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

Six years after swapping the gun emoji for a green-and-orange water pistol, X has reversed course and reinstated the original icon. As The Verge reports, an X employee tweeted about the change ...

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.

Apple announced that more than 100 new emoji characters will be available on iPhone and iPad with the iOS10 upgrade coming soon.

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.

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.