Apple is lucky, again, that this community has the best sense of humor. It was as if we all knew there was no way this could be real. The anti-gay emoji still made its way to social media, but instead of an uproar, many members of the LGBTQ+ community made fun of the situation and started using the new “anti-pride” flag as a joke. Unicode Consortium basically assigns each text, symbol, and emoji their own number as a way to identify them, so, when playing with the code, people were able to put a strike-through circle over any emoji, and it doesn’t even work on all devices. If you’re still upset with the company over the anti-gay emoji, it’s time to learn that it was nothing more than a glitch that’s not even Apple’s doing it’s Unicode! As far as situations go, Apple should consider itself lucky: a real anti-LGBT emoji would have been a disaster.
