Elon Musk has been bringing big changes to X. Notably, he changed the name from Twitter to just X. His new content policies essentially allow for nearly everything. Just last week, X made another subtle yet impactful change. They replaced the water pistol emoji with an actual gun emoji.
The above change was announced in a post by X employee @yacineMTB. “The gun emoji was returned into its rightful form, an M1911,” the post read. The announcement came with a meme and a comparison of the emojis. The Verge noted the change on Tuesday, mentioning its history.
The water pistol emoji was released in 2018. In fact, the emoji was decided to be a real gun by the Unicode Consortium. However, Apple changed it into a toy water gun way back in 2016. Other companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter followed the act.
Later, the Unicode Consortium changed it officially to a water pistol. On the 18th of July, the web was back to the gun emoji. Elon Musk confirmed that it would soon be fixed on mobile. As of now, X is the only platform making this change. Other platforms seem to stick with the water pistol emoji.
