The Google delete process for the family emoji is absolutely brutal
When you delete an emoji, it’s reasonable to expect it to simply disappear in one go, but with one particular emoji, Google has a very different – and callous – approach.
just learned with horror that deleting any of the "family" emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children pic.twitter.com/0v2s8Bx91n
— Brooke Watson (@brookLYNevery1) August 29, 2019
That’s just so harsh. We weren’t the only people who thought so.
make the parents watch https://t.co/PCwPGx8WOq
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 29, 2019
getting some really weird pet semetary vibes here https://t.co/xtgqBHeYMU
— 💗FOX💗 (@clamblitz) August 29, 2019
Unicode is hard.
👨👩👦👦👩👩👧👨👦🙅♂️🤦♂️🧟♀️. https://t.co/K9ym3BZ0J4— Gabriel Peal (@gpeal8) August 30, 2019
I can't believe they made the dad watch his entire family get murdered
— Nick (@NickFromJersey) August 29, 2019
I hate it when this happens. https://t.co/20RI1tXPTo
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) August 29, 2019
Not everyone was simply appalled – there was a dark humour there, too.
this is so terrible, why am I laughing! https://t.co/xx1LcWq7VV
— Bharat Mediratta (@bharat) August 30, 2019
In pain laughing at this. https://t.co/wk1ucfq9sH
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 29, 2019
The explanation was less about secret techie serial killers and more about the way the emoji is generated.
Family emoji is awesome, you can have whatever pair or single parents, as well as a few children, everyone of them can get a different gender and skin colour.
The people at unicode really went hard on this one. https://t.co/nziivRMwXj— Félix (@rolldodge_) August 30, 2019
Hilarious consequence of how combining characters work https://t.co/tFmiTqOPUd
— What duck? (@geeoharee) August 29, 2019
Source: Twitter Image: iemoji.com, screengrab
