#emojipedia

[superlinguo]

Gender Variations for Person in Suit Levitating Emoji - Emoji Proposal

Over the last four or five years there’s been a big project to think about gender representation in emoji, making sure that for people emoji they either have no visible gender representation (like the rugged up skier  ⛷️ or tiny tiny jockey 🏇🏿) or woman/man/person options (👩‍🌾🧑‍🌾👨‍🌾). To make the man/woman gender variations, the emoji is typically a combination of the ‘person’ version with the relevant ‘gender’ symbol (female: ♀️, male: ♂️), which are also symbols in the Unicode set.

Most of this work was done from 2019 to 2021. As part of their decision making, Unicode decided to treat the Person in Suit Levitating emoji as not requiring gendered options. in 2022 Jeremy Burge (former Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia) and I decided to do a bit of work exploring whether this was really the best solution.

Person in Suit Levitating (Google Noto version above) is one of those quirky emoji with an odd little history.

From Emojipedia

This character was originally introduced into the Webdings font as an “exclamation mark in the style of the rude boy logo found on records by The Specials". This levitating man was known as Walt Jabsco.

Person in Suit Levitating was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 under the name “Man in Business Suit Levitating” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

So, Levitating Person definitely started out as male, and if you scroll through the different ways it looks for different companies, it’s still very masculine. Twitter and Facebook have created Woman Levitating and and Man Levitating versions, but these only work on Twitter or Facebook. Below is the Twitter Twimoji version:

In our proposal we considered two main factors. The first is that all other emoji where there’s no gender option involves someone (a) tiny, like the person using a parachute 🪂, or (b) covered by bulky, gender neutralising clothing, like the snowboarder 🏂 . We also looked at how people are actually using the Levitating Person emoji in a set of tweets. In that small set of data we found that people are using the current, still very masculine Twimoji ‘person’ as male rather than female at a rate of 10 to 1. Just saying it’s a ‘person’ and asking vendors to tweak the design has clearly not worked to make this emoji function in a gender neutral way.

Ultimately, the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee decided that the current levitating person was sufficiently gender neutral to not update. I’m sharing our proposal here because Unicode only publish accepted proposals. Perhaps someone will find this worth revisiting one day, and if not, it was interesting to consider and explore. For my own benefit I’ve added the Twitter Levitating Woman to various Slack and Discord channels I’m in.

Reference:

2022 L. Gawne & J. Burge. Emoji Proposal: Levitating Man and Woman. FigShare. https://doi.org/10.26181/21825762

See also:

Person in Suit Levitating (Emojipedia page)

Woman in Suit Levitating (Emojipedia page)

#linguistics #emoji #english language #emojipedia #gender #cmc #unicode #emoji proposal

[emojipediaa]

#pirate flag #emoji #emojipedia #emojis

[2thinktalk]

Emojis 😍😁😎

Credits: Pexels I love emojis/emoticons, and the brevity of words and emotions that they convey. But, man, I tend to misuse them a lot. As much as I’d like to use them in every correspondence, I don’t for fear of conveying the wrong message or unintentionally offending someone. One day, I overheard one daughter ask the other: “why did Mom disliked this and emphasized that?”The other responded:…

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#emoji meanings #emojipedia #emojis

[dandelionsprout42]

• Notices that that the Faroese flag is missing from Emojipedia's main flag list, despite there being a page for said flag on Emojipedia. • Tries to figure out how to give them a tip about it. • Finds the page in the screenshot above.

I am not making a Twitter account to do that, and I will never ever do so.

#emojipedia #emoji #flags #faroe islands #humans

[kickassclefable]

#emojis #emoji kitchen #emojipedia #collage #im the white elf girl

[itsreaditandwow2]

My Thoughts On...#35 - New emojis 🆕🙂

As many of you may be aware, Emojipedia released some new emojis, consisting of a shaking face, a jellyfish, a moose, a goose, a black bird (or crow), a donkey, a wing, a flute, maracas, a hyacinth, a ginger root, a pea pod, a gray heart, a light blue heart, a pink heart (at last), a wi-fi symbol, a Khanda, a folding fan, a hair pick, and a pushing hand. The emojis are available on some platforms, which brings me to my thoughts. Now, like I said, these new emojis are available on some social media platforms. However, these new emojis were recently featured on Twitter. But the problem is, even though these new emojis are visible on Twitter’s emoji board, they don’t show up in tweets. The reason being? Because the new emojis for Twitter aren’t listed on Emojipedia. Yeah, even though the Twitter versions of these emojis are seemingly available for use, they’re yet to be listed. Which seems to be the reason why the new emojis appear as a broken image icon in tweets. Another thing about the new emojis that are confusing is that even though they’re not yet available for Microsoft, they’re available for Microsoft Teams. How does that make sense? Why have the new emojis available for Microsoft Teams, but not for simply Microsoft itself? I literally can’t even. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the new emojis. I hope you enjoy this post, and be sure to like, re-blog, and/or comment. Your choice.

#My Thoughts On #emoji #emojis #new emojis #Emojipedia #so yeah

[netscapenavigator-official]

*looks up the emoji I’m about to send/post to make sure it portrays the same emotion on Android*

#the saddest thing about emoji discrepancy is the #🌚 #on iOS she has so much ‘tude #the perfect side eye emoji #no dice on Android 😔 #||| #emoji #emojis #Android #iOS #emojipedia #emotion #emotions

[blue-thief]

fun fact 70% of my tumblr usage is on desktop. i'm usually searching up the specific emoji i wanna use and copy-pasting it here 💀

#usually i have the emojipedia website open at all times to make things a little easier for myself

[vitruvianmanbara]

going from a laptop with 4 gb RAM to one with 32 gb RAM is kind of blowing my mind I feel like a medieval peasant who was suddenly and violently catapulted into the future 😵‍💫

#I'm not emotionally prepared for youtube to run this quickly #now I can actually use the pop up emoji keyboard instead of having to go to emojipedia to copy & paste everything! 😭

[dullahandyke]

also thank god that discord has popularised typing emojis like :this: bcos the windows + . shortcut stopped working on my laptop and i need to be an emoji boy

#im not opening another tab to get shit from emojipedia. too much effort

[lucyisokay]

e-sumi-yan 🌿

#e sumi yan #ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #fanart #ignore the signature from my twitter!!!! #i really would like to do a proper print/painting of him still but this scratched my itch for now #i just realized the emoji linked back to emojipedia LMAOGGH EDITED THAT FINALLY #sorry i am an old lady and i don't wanna look up how to use emoji keyboard on windows

[emojipediaa]

unicorn emojis

#emojis #unicorn #emojipedia

[cartoonrival]

👍HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND HOW TO GET THE EMOJI KEYBOARD ON DESKTOP 😁

#txt157 #ive just been copying from emojipedia when i really needed one ToT

[aroacehanzawa]

i just discovered i can type emojis directly from a windows keyboard????

#i've been copy pasting from emojipedia this whole time 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #<- TYPED DIRECTLY FROM WINDOWS KEY + V POPUP WINDOW

[noisytenant]

🫀

Wow that heart emoji looks fucked up. Anyway. Non-human alters?

🫀- do you have non-human alters? what species are they?

yes. in this economy who can even afford to be a human alter (guy who is literally a human alter)

when it comes to creatures, there are a lot of them running around in here but most don't have a lot to say and don't cause trouble so i've not taken a headcount.

of note: catshape, kittens, a "silly animal" (species). a creepypasta-esque creature kinda like the rake. a sea urchin (?). the other day i found a mollusk

more commonly there are various things that fail the human test but also lack a "species" (parasite, "fake person", object, concept). i've wanted to maybe draw a map of some kind but these guys have very fuzzy appearances which makes it bothersome

this question was interesting to consider. it's funny how certain things average out (my fursona is a real blend of things) while others are quite segmented

#indexed post #I dont know what platform youre on but browsing emojipedia the anatomical heart emoji is wacky #systemposting

[17yearcicada]

brennan lee mulligan image i would rather die than set a single boundary

#whatever!!!! imagine the neutral face emoji here i don't feel like going to emojipedia for it #.txt