The battle to get a redhead emoji added to keyboards has certainly not been without impassioned debate. But, now it seems Google might have waded into the ginger emoji discussion with a rather shady message. 。
SEE ALSO:An online petition is pleading with Apple to add a redhead emoji 。If you're an iPhone user with Gboard enabled on your keyboard, something pretty unusual happens when you emoji search the word "ginger." Google's Gboard presents you with a bunch of middle finger emoji. (How rude!) 。) 。
Credit: rachel thompson / mashable 。Redheads are currently jubilantly celebrating as a 。 standalone redhead emoji。has just been made a candidate for 2018's Unicode release. If accepted, they could be added to emoji keyboards by mid-2018. Given that Ginger Parrot (a website for redheads and their supporters) launched a 。 petition 。petition 。
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Tweet may have been deleted。Bizarrely, this little quirk is unique to iPhone users. 。
Mashable 。
did some more digging into Google's potential distain for redheads. It emerged that no middle fingers appear when you search for "ginger" on Android using the Gboard function. 。
Tweet may have been deleted 。Via Giphy。