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[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can someone actually tell me what this Israel cool emoji was and why people broke themselves in half over it? I wasn't around for that, I only saw the aftermath

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tl;Dr: burning flag of Israel wasn't originally added bc the person who creates most of the emojis thought it was anti semetic, eventually enough people demanded it and a struggle sesh happened and we got the emoji and lost some users in the process. The person who makes the emojis came around and realized they changed their mind about it (growth) but some others were really holding on to zio talking points about it and crashing out

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for clarifying!

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The emoji instrael used to look like this: old-isntrael, the Isntrael flag with the Lehi logo. (And the israel-cool emoji, israel-cool with Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, who is a good guy)

AFAIK, it used to be like this because WhyEssEff ("Self-Appointed Emote Czar") didn't want to add a burning star of david originally. She came around on it and posted https://hexbear.net/post/5887493 to change it to what we have today. It became a large struggle session. But now the isntreal emoji is of the actual Israeli flag isntrael

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[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks, and wow, that really seems like a pointless struggle sesh, idk how it is for most power posters here but if you just consider how things look like to newer users or people who don't know anything about the site all of this is just going in circles, also one person was making ALL the emojis and got pissed?

Sure is cool when admins do whatever tf they want lol, I've been a lurker for a long time and only started posting recently, but I guess there need to be more mods so one of them can't just shut things down because they feel like it shrug-outta-hecks

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

also one person was making ALL the emojis and got pissed?

WhyEssEff has been the one to do emojies for the most part yeah. I don't think she got pissed. She just didn't want to add it originally (which may have been years ago, I'm not exactly sure how long), but didn't block any of the other admins from adding it (but they didn't). Neither did she get pissed when she came around on it and changed it 5 months ago.

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[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks again, at least they got around to it, I wasn't fully familiar with the story but ig all's well that ends well rat-salute isntrael