X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

the X engineer responsible for the change … stated that this design is “not the final design (going to make it look more badass)”

incidentally this engineer is a fascist weeb who complains about gay characters in TV shows and bragged about getting trans flags removed from a grocery store by leaving a negative google review

    • Tervell [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I’m not sure if I can tell receiver details at that resolution, but a better giveaway is the stock - the 47 has its stock attached at an angle to the receiver (and the receiver itself has an angled rear end), with a metal bit inbetween, while the AKM has a nice right angle

      (this might also be the exact image used for the emoji)

      there’s also a difference in the pistol grips (a similar situation with being attached at an angle and there being an extra connecting metal bit), but that’s more difficult to see in a small image