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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode
When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.
Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.
Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday July 23 2020, @03:12PM (1 child)
Right. I guess I was trying to say that if a rifle pictogram needs to be removed from unicode, I'm not sure how to justify adding a guillotine. But I'm not a fan of formalized emoticons anyhow.
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Thursday July 23 2020, @04:29PM
Personally, I think the formalized icons are a waste of time and effort. The symbols mean different things to different people and they often make communication less clear. On top of that, I don't see why they need to remove symbols either. People will say what they're going to say. Simply dropping symbols doesn't stop anyone from threatening someone, no matter whether they use a guillotine icon or something else.