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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

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 social media platform X(formerly known as Twitter) has redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as an actual firearm. Above: comparison between Twitter's Water Pistol design and X's new redesign of this emoji as a firearm. The 🔫 Water Pistol emoji in this Discord-used Twemoji offshoot remains as the design originally implemented on Twitter in 2018.

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