To stay updated with more positive news, please connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. One can use the rainbow emoji-only if the person has liked the Facebook’s official LGBTQ page.ĭo you have an interesting story to share? Please write to us at. It also wished its users ‘Happy Pride’ in their news feed. Plus, it’s a natural flag-it’s from the sky!”Īlong with the emoji, the social media site has also added frames based on pride themes to Facebook cameras. The rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things. You can only use the emoji if you are in possession of the special string of code. To access the new emoji, all you have to do is like the LGBTQFacebook page. For June, Facebook's new rainbow flag reaction is, of course, in recognition of Pride Month, which is celebrated every June in the United States. According to The Independent, talking about the significance of the flag, he had said, “We needed something beautiful, something from us. People can now send a transgender Pride flag emoji to their friends and familythough there are a few catches. On Mother's Day, people could select a flower instead of the usual 'Like' thumbs-up or other 5 reactions. The colours were hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet representing sex, life, healing, the sun, serenity with nature, art, harmony, and spirit respectively.
When Gilbert designed the flag, it had eight colours initially. Introducing the emoji this year is significant owing to the fact that he died in March 2017. The rainbow emoji is based on the rainbow flag or the LGBTQ pride flag created in the year 1978 by Gilbert Baker who was a gay rights activist from America. Nothing new, and can be done with any emoji rainbow emoji will come in handy for more than 12 million people from all over the world who are part of 76,000 Facebook groups supporting LGBTQ community.Īdding to that the fact that over 1.5 million people intent to participate in one or the other 7500 LGBTQ Pride events happening this year on Facebook. If you have seen tweets like this and assume this is an official emoji it’s merely combining two existing characters. E.g.: ?⃠ no chocolate, ?⃠ no babies, or ?⃠ no fun /KvG6dJQsxO- Emojipedia ? February 19, 2019 The Unicode character ⃠ U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH is programmed to appear over the top of the previous character (on supported systems). Straight ppl: /Sq8ANUgn6O- Triggerology February 19, 2019 Nothing new, and can be done with any emoji,” it confirms.
“If you have seen tweets like this and assume this is an official emoji it’s merely combining two existing characters. Neither is the combination of the two characters a glitch.Īccording to Emojipedia, the ‘no’ symbol-officially named the ‘Combining Enclosing Circle Backslash’-is programmed to float above the emoji that precedes it. Screenshots taken by users reveal that the alienating symbol appears on other networks as well, such as Instagram. People reading his tweet with the iPhone would see that the crossed-out circle is hoisted over the LGBT flag, creating what looks like a single emoji. The ‘emoji’ was first discovered in January, when Twitter user Mitchell-who goes by the handle ‘ mioog’ and identifies as gay-tweeted a combination of the pride flag and prohibition sign emojis next to each other. Luckily, it’s not a new-or even real-icon that’s set to roll out with 2019’s edition of emoticons, but the result of the way Unicode is programmed.
Twitter users have been in a frenzy over a supposed ‘anti-gay emoji’ that sees the pride flag being canceled out. Get meaning, pictures, codes, symbols to copy & paste, similar & related emoji The Rainbow Flag Emoji is listed in Flags category since.