What frustrates me further is that nobody is talking about the cross through the black man, the flag with the Star of David, or the Kaaba. 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.
