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zarzavat
on July 14, 2022
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A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)
A recent example is that "Let's go [gun emoji] him" could be interpreted as either harmless fun, or conspiracy to murder, depending on if the recipient's phone displays that as a water pistol or a real gun.
Edit: weirdly HN refuses to display that emoji.
lolc
on July 14, 2022
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Hacker News doesn't allow emojis because only serious fun or something.
tomcatfish
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HN does not like displaying emojis, though a few slip through I believe.
popcube
on July 15, 2022
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try it ...you are right. or just a (・∀・)
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Edit: weirdly HN refuses to display that emoji.