How We Ended Up with the Pregnant Man Emoji

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18 points·Eric_WVGG··10 comments

I don't understand why silly design outcomes like this make me smile, but they make me smile nonetheless. Something about it just manages to tickle both my inner engineer and my inner jester in equal measure.

It's made all the sweeter by the notion that, eventually, someone somewhere will find a way to use this emoji and be completely earnest about it.

Agreed, it's an amusing and wholesome story. Shame we live in a world where not everyone agrees. As the author said,

> The level of vitriol and outrage I have seen surrounding something as innocuous as an emoji has been awful. The headlines I've noticed that I feel obligated not to link back to, combined with the malice ascribed directly towards people due to their political leaning, gender, or sexual orientation, gave me enough pause to spend my night writing this.

We all know it's just going to be used by men who ate a whole burrito.

Can we just go back to yellow genderless Android blobs?

I sincerely tried to understand that article. Nearly tapped out a few times from brain bleeds but I managed to reach the end. Guess I'll have to take his word for it why this emoji has arrived.

Apparently there is now an emoji for churrascaria. Yum...

Too much beer?

I've already heard multiple people refer to it as the beer belly emoji.

there has been a glitch in the matrix

The end approacheth..

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