Some queer people are embracing the manufactured anti-LGBTQ emoji with jokes and irony, in typical internet fashion. Allowing a prohibition sign to be easily combined with other emojis makes sense for creating a lot of useful symbols, like no smoking, or no peanuts, or no kids. The “no” symbol can be applied to any emoji on platforms that support it. Nothing new, and can be done with any emoji /S3tu7Wm4qD- Emojipedia February 19, 2019 If you have seen tweets like this and assume this is an official emoji it’s merely combining two existing characters. Emojipedia, the world’s emoji dictionary, explained on Twitter that it was user-created. Straight ppl: /Sq8ANUgn6O- Triggerology February 19, 2019Įveryone can breathe at least a little sigh of relief because the “anti-LGTBQ” image isn’t an official emoji. People shared screengrabs of the emoji on Twitter. The emoji shows the “no” symbol, also known as the prohibition sign, over the LGBTQ flag. But the symbol doesn’t actually exist as an official emoji. A supposed new anti-LGBTQ emoji caused an uproar on social media.