Depending on your device’s font, how it displays character combinations, and which Unicode characters it supports, you’ll either see the combined symbol rendered properly, misaligned, or simply as two characters next to each other. That means there is no pre-made “anti-LGBT” flag, only one that appears when your device applies the character combining rules to the text you just entered. Unicode allows fonts to either use pre-made combined characters or rely on the standard’s rules for combining characters. You’ve probably seen combined characters before, like the acute accent combination in “Pokémon,” or the umlaut combination in the German word “schön.” The “no symbol” ⃠ itself is categorized in Unicode as a “combining character,” meaning it’s designed to overlay the preceding character. Unicode provides a standard way to represent text in multiple languages, symbols, and emoji by assigning each character - emoji included - a unique identification number that can be displayed by the font installed on your device.įor the officially designated “international prohibition sign,” that identification number is U+20E0.
Its members include individuals as well as major corporations like Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Do you think using the pride reaction on Facebook as a way to troll politicians with anti-gay positions is FUNNY or OFFENSIVE? Vote and comment below.The reason you can see symbols like the “no sign” ⃠, your favorite emoji, accents in a French city name, or Japanese kanji on an online storefront, is the Unicode Standard, created by the Unicode Consortium. Or at least as long as Facebook has the option. The joke seems to have wings past politicians but aiming the pride flag at oppositional views may be something that hangs around for a while. His profile picture has currently been given the pride treatment over 7,000 times. politics. Australian conservatives senator Cory Bernardi has had the same social media experience during the month of June as a vocal opponent of marriage equality. The rainbow trolling doesn’t seem to be exclusive to U.S. People’s comments showing support of Moore and the replies of the hopeful candidate tasted the rainbow, too. The judge even began sharing news stories which covered the flood of pride reactions and, as you could imagine, those were met with the same reactions. Moore is now running for US Senate and his posts on topics ranging from recreational angling to Obamacare repeal have fallen victim to a fabulous takeover. He’s also quoted as saying “that the state should use the ‘power of the sword’ to keep children from being corrupted by the LGBT community’s influence.” Moore went against a federal district judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples back in early 2016 – a decision that led to his suspension from the Alabama Supreme Court. One politician in particular has received the most colorful pushback. Alabama’s former Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore’s campaign page has seen a flood of rainbow reactions with an increase over the weekend due to many pride festivals across the country. When politicians known for their anti-LGBT positions posted about any topic on Facebook, some people have “reacted” by pressing the rainbow flag icon leaving lots of gay pride on their page. Then comes politicians who oppose marriage equality. June 13th, 2017 – During the month of June, people can show their pride in the LGBT community by waving rainbow flags in the streets, and now they can also show their trolling skills by using Facebook’s pride reaction emoji.įirst comes love.