The internet's fight over dinosaur emoji

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WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Emoji might not be 66 million years old, but they are pretty much everywhere. Join Ben and Amory as they explore the history of dinosaur emoji in LGBTQ+ communities and their more recent use as an online dog-whistle for anti-trans activists. What happens when one symbol is used for conflicting reasons? And can the dinosaur emoji avoid redefinition — or extinction?

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0:58.2	Alright, so, Amory, can you read this in an incredible piece of literature?
1:02.1	We've got a telephone, a little dude making some kind of expression with his mouth open,
1:08.7	but I can't really see what the eyes are doing.
1:11.5	Got a sailboat, a little whale, and then...
1:14.5	Just for the record, just for the record.
1:16.2	I'm not asking you to literally repeat the emoji.
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