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globalreutersJuly 24, 20241 Mins read
X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
globalreutersJuly 24, 20241 Mins read 
Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.
The company hasn’t explained the change, but it feels on-brand for Elon Musk’s social network. Twitter originally switched its emoji to display a water gun in 2018, following others like Google and Facebook. (Apple made the switch in 2016; Microsoft was a brief hold-out.)
Eventually, the Unicode Consortium, which decides which emoji get made in the first place, followed the…
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