Published 2018
“…Trans activists who have been
petitioning to have the trans flag incorporated into emoji vocabulary kick started the ‘Claws Out For Trans’ campaign calling for people to ‘hijack’ the lobster emoji as an “unofficial, official” trans symbol (Gil, 2018); 15-year-old Saudie Rayouf Alhumedhi successfully
petitioned for Unicode to include emoji of women wearing a hijab through her campaign ‘Hijab Emoji Project’ despite widespread racist reactions from several users (Al Jazeera, 2017); to curb visual representations of gun violence, tech companies Apple, Samsung, and Google, and platforms WhatsApp and Twitter replaced their pistol and handgun emoji with water guns (Ong, 2018); and Chinese users have been adopting the ‘rice’ and ‘bunny’ emoji as homophones (mǐtù) to ‘#MeToo’ in a “tactical response to circumvent
online censorship” on platforms including Sina Weibo and WeChat (Andersen, 2018; Zeng, 2018).
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