Let’s be honest. This article is a bit mean spirited, $hitty, and inaccurate. It punches down implying the 10 yr old boy and his teacher don’t understand how emoji work, and then goes on to mansplain how they are correct in their assertions that apple could change their depiction of this emoji.
I’m not saying Apple should change it, but this article did not do the topic justice.
I was bespectacled from fourth grade until my late twenties. One word, little chap: LASIK. It will change your life, you're welcome.
I looked into that once but the doctor told me that even though I wouldn’t need glasses to see things far away that I wouldn’t be able to see things up close without reading glasses.
You must be old (45? 50?). The downside of age is your lenses stiffen and the muscles that control them weaken and LASIK comes with those trade offs. Not an issue for the young. Get LASIK while you're still young kids!
Hey Nerd Boy, that's not Apple's emoji on the page you're holding up. That is the TWITTER version. It is easy to tell them apart, Apple uses 3D visual cues, the Twitter version is completely flat colors:
If an emoticon makes you “sad and upset”, then the real problem is that you allow insignificant things to change your state — not good.
That being said, the fact that there is an emoticon that depicts this is ridiculous. I use maybe 2-3 different ones on a regular basis — most are bizarre to me, including the one this kid is pointing out. But call it out for what it is — what exactly is it trying to communicate?
Another thing done by someone to self-promote. The emoji fits every nerd I know. He needs a reality check as his life is going to be miserable as he gets older.
Another thing done by someone to self-promote. The emoji fits every nerd I know. He needs a reality check as his life is going to be miserable as he gets older.
This 10 year old kid shouldn't be concern that he has a strong resemblance to the current emojis, of what most would instantly say are images of a "nerd". What he should maybe be concern about is that he has a strong resemblance to "nerd" emojis that what most would say are images of a nerd ..... for over fifty years before he was born.
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that apple could change their depiction of this emoji.
That being said, the fact that there is an emoticon that depicts this is ridiculous. I use maybe 2-3 different ones on a regular basis — most are bizarre to me, including the one this kid is pointing out. But call it out for what it is — what exactly is it trying to communicate?