It started on Twitter. A person tweeted an emoji of a rainbow flag overlaid with a prohibited symbol. Then other people took notice and got angry, thinking that this was an anti-LGBT emoji Apple released. But as it turns out, it’s a glitch (via Fast Company).
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Anti-LGBT Emoji
This new emoji doesn’t exist. Instead it’s a glitch in the way unicode characters work. If you put a prohibited symbol—the unicode character, not the emoji—next to any emoji and copy/paste, it will appear on top of the emoji.
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It sounds like it only displays like that on phones, not Macs. And this glitch isn’t new either. Emojipedia wrote about it in 2016.
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