Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon on the android emoji flag picker. I think the country code is GB so it’s next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what’s throwing people.
The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.
The first is 🇺🇲 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F2’ and is for ‘U.S. Outlying Islands’.
The second is 🇺🇸 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F8’ and is for ‘United States’.
No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.
I haven’t used Twitter or X, but based on the image, that’s the keyboard. See the blue GIF icon? Likely X’s picker. The dark gray one below it is probably the keyboard. Could be Samsung because I see the same thing in Samsung Keyboard, SwiftKey, and Gboard.
twitter doesn’t have an emoji picker, and if it did, it would use the same iconography as the rest of the app, and, more importantly, the same emoji (except on iOS devices where they are forced to use apple’s emojis)
Everyone take a step back and take a deep breath. Now, do you really believe elon removed an emoji from the built-in keyboard of your smartphone?
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No, that is the phone’s built-in keyboard, look at what mine does around the UN flag:
(Google Gboard, on Android)
The UK flag is back there:
Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon on the android emoji flag picker. I think the country code is GB so it’s next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what’s throwing people.
The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.
The first is 🇺🇲 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F2’ and is for ‘U.S. Outlying Islands’.
The second is 🇺🇸 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F8’ and is for ‘United States’.
No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.
I like that there is no united states flag there
I haven’t used Twitter or X, but based on the image, that’s the keyboard. See the blue GIF icon? Likely X’s picker. The dark gray one below it is probably the keyboard. Could be Samsung because I see the same thing in Samsung Keyboard, SwiftKey, and Gboard.
twitter doesn’t have an emoji picker, and if it did, it would use the same iconography as the rest of the app, and, more importantly, the same emoji (except on iOS devices where they are forced to use apple’s emojis)
This is NOT a bug or a mistake. If the UK flag hasn’t been gone for long this is a deliberate action by someone.
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any sufficiently advanced incompetence (elon musk) is indistinguishable from malice