It’s hard to not take everything offensively these days when your community has been marginalized in every way for decades. Regardless, I see why the LGBT community is in an outrage over this. Love Lundy, a junior, comments, “I’ve been told that it’s a glitch. Essentially copy and pasting a cancellation symbol over any emoji, like the pride flag, will create the seemingly anti symbol. It is, in fact, a glitch and not an official Apple emoji however, that does not diminish the fact that it is offensive to copy and paste what would be deemed a hate symbol over the internet.Īt first, it was not apparent this was the case, but it is actually a unicode glitch, as several experts online have already explained.
The initial reaction on social media was due to the public believing it was a new or official emoji. The emoji in question immediately went viral on a Twitter post. Understandably, it has garnered a fair bit of outrage from members of the LGBT community, as well as its allies.
An anti-gay flag emoji has been circulating on Twitter and Instagram for a few days now.
