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And I bet Chaka mad that it isn't.

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah how come Bowie got emojis πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸŽ€πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸŽ€πŸ§‘πŸ»β€πŸŽ€

but Prince, George Michael, and Freddie Mercury got sweet fuck all? Yes, I know Freddie died pre-emoji you absolute pedants.

Edit: And what's with all the downvotes? MFer can't even have a thought in the shower without getting downvoted. Smh.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prince is apparently a very sensitive subject.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 2 days ago

Images that are adopted as Unicode glyphs (including emoji) have to be in the public domain, i.e. not copyrighted or trademarked. When they were assembling the Unicode codepage for characters from vintage computer character sets, they left out the Atari ST Dobbshead character because the intellectual property status of the piece of vintage advertising clip-art it was derived from was unclear. Presumably someone (Prince’s estate and/or Warner Music, I’d guess) owns the copyright and/or has a trademark claim on the Prince symbol

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What would be the use? What emotion or expression would it convey?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are we going to use for "no" then?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Same symbol. It's like ciao or shalom.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't it like 4 Unicode pieces layered over one a other ?

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Hey you're right

Ƭ̡̬̊

https://www.bustle.com/articles/156480-3-ways-to-type-princes-symbol-name-from-a-font-to-old-fashioned-unicode

(Likely will look less or more accurate depending on your web browser/OS/etc.)

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Im pretty sure there is some tool that can approximate any shape by layering an arbitrary number of Unicode pieces

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You have symbols all over your shower too ehh? Mine are mostly red and 5 sided.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Add it to unicode too.