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  • Emoji-Laden Facebook Threat Against Police Lands Teen in Jail

    Don’t threaten the police. Don’t threaten the police on Facebook. Don’t use a bunch of gun emojis when threatening the police on Facebook, which you’re not supposed to be doing anyway. In fact, at this point, I’d advise against Facebook altogether. And emojis.

    A 17-year-old Brooklyn teen was been arrested after police saw that he’d been making threats against police on Facebook – many of which contained various emojis. The ones that caught the police’s attention featured the cop emoji and the gun emoji. It wasn’t just the emoji that was threatening, however. Aristy posted plenty of plain-text threats as well.

    DNAinfo has the specific tweets, which have since been deleted.

    At 9:52 p.m. on Jan. 15, Aristy posted a photo of him with a revolver and rounds of ammunition with the caption “feel like katxhin a body right now.”

    Shortly after, Aristy posted “N***a run up on me, he gunna get blown down,’ followed by an emoji of a police officer with three gun emojis pointed at it, according to a criminal complaint.

    And at 11:05 p.m., Aristy posted “F**k the 83 104 79 98 73 PCTKKKK,” followed by the police officer emoji with two gun emojis pointed at it, the DA’s office said.

    He then wrote “U know how I rock skrap.”

    It appears this is a trend. On January 4 Aristy posted this. It’s yet to be deleted.

    Aw, isn’t that just the cutest little terroristic threat you’ve ever seen?

    Upon Aristy’s arrest, police found a .38 caliber handgun and a significant amount of pot. He’s been booked on charges of making terrorist threats, criminal possession of a weapon, criminal use of drugs, and criminal possession of marijuana.

    According to police, Aristy has a lengthy record – 12 prior arrests.

  • Hershey’s New Logo: An Unfortunate Coincidence?

    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

    Or in the case of Hershey’s, a kiss is just a kiss.

    At least, that’s what the company told itself when it made the logical decision to bring its logo into the 21st century.

    The new version is completely drawn, using colors easily associated with their chocolate products: brown, white, and silver/grey.

    There’s nothing wrong with the word “Hershey’s”.

    The problem arises from the design of the candy at the end of the brand name.

    You see, part of the Hershey’s kiss design represents the paper that comes with Hershey kisses.

    You know that and I know that.

    To some onlookers, that paper makes the entire kiss design look like a steaming pile of poop.

    Yes, boys and girls, the internet is beside itself with either hilarity or indignity over the unfortunate coincidence.

    In a recent poll on Mashable, about 55% of responders believe that the design closely resembles the poo emoji.

    It’s kind of sad that Hershey’s attempt at a more updated look would find the company dealing with an unarguably modern problem.

    Unfortunately for the company and generation gaps being what they are, some younger people will look at a design like that and associate it with something like a poo emoji rather than an iconic piece of candy.

    This could also be something that has nothing to do with technology or age groups; just a lack of maturity combined with the predictable tendency of netizens to overreact to something harmless.

    Remember the new McDonald’s mascot people expected to emotionally scar children for life? No meltdowns thus far.

    With this situation, Hershey’s has couple of choices.

    The first option is that they could fire whoever put this new look together and redesign their logo.

    The second option is for the company to tell everyone freaking out about the design, “Well we ARE the shit, so the logo will stay as is,” and simply roll with it.

    In fact, I sincerely hope they go with the second option. Word for word.

  • Emojis Now Work on Web Version of Twitter

    Emojis Now Work on Web Version of Twitter

    All you emoji lovers can now sleep sound knowing that your smiley faces and little piles of poop will be able to be seen by those browsing their Twitter timelines on the web.

    Before today, mobile Twitter users who included emojis in their tweets were faced with hollow boxes when those tweets were viewed on the web. Now, if you include an emoji in a tweet from your smartphone, web-based Twitter users will see a version of that emoji. It’s retroactive too-all your past emojis will now show up.

    You’re still going to have issues when you attempt to embed tweets with emojis, however.

    Tweetdeck support for emojis seems to be inconsistent, with some users reporting that they can see them fine and other pissed that they still can’t see the colorful icons.

    Emoji away, Twitter users.