There was some legitimate confusion over how and why Alex’s photo blew up. The tweet went viral, and people fell in love with this mysterious Alex from Target, creating memes and tributes in his image, leading anyone over the age of 23 to wonder: What the fuck is happening here? Her tweet was simply, “YOOOOOOOO,” signaling that, well, this teen boy was cute. In November 2014, a young woman tweeted a photo of a teenage checkout clerk at Target with Alex on the nametag. Dodson went on to a strange post-virality career, with a reality show that never got off the ground, celebrity boxing matches, controversial statements about being gay, and a Trump endorsement. At the time, some people pointed out that turning a video of poor black man expressing anguish over the attempted sexual assault of his sister was problematic. “Bed Intruder Song” captured two powerful vectors that would come to define the rest of the decade: a normal person being propelled to some sort of viral fame, and a critical backlash over the exploitative race, gender, and class dynamics. * The Advocate did not link to the Reddit thread or instruction videos because it has deemed the symbols a form of hate speech.In July 2010, Antoine Dodson appeared on the local news in Alabama after a home invader attempted to assault his sister, saying: “He’s climbin’ in your windows, he’s snatchin’ your people up… So y’all need to hide your kids, hide your wife.” The news clip went viral, and a few days later, Dodson’s words were remixed into the auto-tuned “Bed Intruder Song,” which made it onto the Billboard 100 charts and become the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010. “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their blood is upon them.” -Leviticus 20:13Īs of the time of this article's publishing, the flaw was still in effect. However, is also retweeting users who say being gay is a sin. “I’ve been embracing it, but it’s also dangerous for people to use it hatefully,” he told Out. The user, who claims to be a gay man named Mitchell, has been using Twitter to try to make the anti-LGBTQ symbol trend - allegedly as a means of reclaiming hate speech. Out magazine, The Advocate's sibling publication, interviewed the Twitter user, who is claiming credit over discovering the flaw around a month ago. The worst part of this, is that whoever figured out this flaw, has used it to spread hate."
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"This should be an easy fix, and I believe it is Unicode's interest to fix it. "This is a new concern that I personally will be discussing with Unicode," he added. "Until now no one has used emojis and characters in such a way to create what I believe is hate speech."
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"I was not aware that this could be done with emojis and maybe nobody did," said Sherka. Mathew Sherka - a cofounder of the Born Perfect campaign and a designer of the rainbow flag emoji, which was added to Unicode in 2016 - was disturbed by how the "flaw" is being exploited. This is the only emoji we needed /p>- ahmed February 20, 2019
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A crop of YouTube videos with instructions on how to construct hateful symbols have also appeared.*
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On Tuesday, a message thread on Reddit - announced with a swastika symbol - cropped up to educate users on how to apply the strike-through to emojis like an Israeli flag, a mosque, and an African-American face. The alt-right was quick to pick up on the offensive possibilities. The strike-through modifier of the rainbow flag was the first to make headlines, but it appears the strike-through can be applied to any emoji. This is comparable to how the character of the letter "e," for example, can be modified to become "é." As other reports have noted, an emoji with a strike-through can only be viewed in certain ways, such as text message window or Twitter on a mobile device. It is a line of code, in which a modifier in the form of a strike-through symbol has been applied to a rainbow flag emoji to create the offensive image. The controversial image, resembling a crossed-out rainbow flag, is not one character. The bad news is that a glitch in the Unicode Standard is being exploited to create what is essentially hate speech in emoji form. The good news is that there is no such emoji has been designed or approved of by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that oversees the Unicode Standard of characters that includes emojis. Reports of an anti-LGBTQ emoji sparked alarm on social media and queer outlets this week, with many questioning why such an emoji would ever have been designed.