The special character is part of Unicode, which is a standard set of characters computers use to handle text. Jeremy Burge, who lists his title on Twitter as 'chief emoji officer' for Emojipedia, set the record straight, saying, 'It's literally how that character works in combo with any emoji or character.'īurge pointed out that in situations like this, it can be hard to differentiate which Twitter users have been genuinely fooled and which ones are pretending to be fooled as a joke. If you copy and paste it, the circle covers any previous character, not just the rainbow flag emoji. The crossed-out circle is a special character that covers the previous letter or emoji. » New emojis are coming for 2019, include service dogs, inclusivity, sloth On iPhones, the tweet showed the crossed-out circle on the LGBT flag emoji.
The talk began yesterday when one user tweeted the image, according to Fast Company.
