“I’ve been embracing it, but it’s also dangerous for people to use it hatefully,” he explained. He added that he was pleased to see queer people using the emoji ironically or for humorous purposes, but was worried about the potential harm it could do in the wrong hands. Mitchell, who discovered the anti-LGBT emoji “I’ve been embracing it, but it’s also dangerous for people to use it hatefully.”

“It shouldn’t be possible,” said Mitchell, who is gay. He found the mistake by combining the blocks of Unicode which make up the Pride flag with the Unicode which creates a circle with a slash through it. mitchell (Discovered ️‍ ⃠) February 19, 2019 How gay twitter became obsessed with this: a thread ✨

Instead, the arresting image seems to be a glitch in the software.Ī Twitter user called Mitchell told Out Magazine on February 19 that he discovered the apparent flaw a month ago.