Emoji might not be 66 million years old, but they are pretty much everywhere. Join Ben and Amory as they explore the history of dinosaur emoji in LGBTQ+ communities and their more recent use as an online dog-whistle for anti-trans activists. What happens when one symbol is used for conflicting reasons? And can the dinosaur emoji avoid redefinition — or extinction?
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I hold the belief that use of emojis should be discouraged for everyone born before 1990 like myself, so learning that using a dinosaur emoji in a conversation could have accidentally signalled that I support anti-trans nonsense is actually very helpful in validating my dogma.
Why wouldn’t they make it a tranceratops?
There’s a transeratops pin…
