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X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm

https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesigns-water-pistol-emoji-back-to-a-firearm/

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

the X engineer responsible for the change ... stated that this design is "not the final design (going to make it look more badass)"

incidentally this engineer is a fascist weeb who complains about gay characters in TV shows and bragged about getting trans flags removed from a grocery store by leaving a negative google review

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Antiwork

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ak47 or nothing

Storm

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I know you're not sleeping on the king slayer.

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Is that emoji an actual AK-47 or is it an akm? I'm really bad at telling the difference.

LocalOaf

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From a cursory zoom, I think the receiver is milled instead of stamped, so probably 47 over M or it's some Chinese Type-Whatever produced in between the AK-47 and AKM, but I could definitely be wrong

@Tervell@hexbear.net ?

Tervell

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I'm not sure if I can tell receiver details at that resolution, but a better giveaway is the stock - the 47 has its stock attached at an angle to the receiver (and the receiver itself has an angled rear end), with a metal bit inbetween, while the AKM has a nice right angle

(this might also be the exact image used for the emoji)

there's also a difference in the pistol grips (a similar situation with being attached at an angle and there being an extra connecting metal bit), but that's more difficult to see in a small image

LocalOaf

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(this might also be the exact image used for the emoji)

Looks like it to me squidward-nochill

I didn't know that about the stock thing though, thank you.

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