Credit: Mashable It's not clear exactly why Apple objected to the emoji but, as BuzzFeed points out, the characters had already faced criticism from gun control activists in the UK. Even though ...

Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after real-life pistols. While Microsoft’s looked more like a ray gun from a science fiction movie. But in iOS 10, Apple was the ...

Ten emoji have been linked to violence, according to For Working Parents. Unsurprisingly, the water gun and knife refer to weapons, while the dynamite and pirate flag simply refer to crime in general.

He worries that the adoption of the gun emoji is another example of Musk trying to prod and poke at culture war issues. X did not respond to a request to comment made through Nick Pickles ...

while anal sex can be communicated using the donut emoji. While some meanings may seem like a given — the gun or knife emojis symbolize weapons and the smiley face with x’s over the eyes ...