• @waigl@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    WhatsApp is not its own company, it belongs to Facebook/Meta.

    Also, on that topic, you could do the same thing you did with X/Twitter to Meta/Facebook.

    *edit: Oh, and of course Alphabet/Google. Curious how many big tech companies seem keen on obfuscating their own name these days…

    • SuperDuper
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      114 months ago

      Facebook the product is still called Facebook, Google the product is still called Google. It’s only the parent companies that changed their names, their products kept the same branding.

      Twitter the product has been, or is being, rebranded as X along with the company.

  • @AVincentInSpace
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    164 months ago

    Facebook and WhatsApp are both owned by Meta – why on Earth do they use two different emoji fonts?

    • ElPussyKangaroo
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      44 months ago

      Facebook and WhatsApp were separate apps until Facebook bought WhatsApp. That’s why there’s so much difference in the design language, functionality, etc.

      • @velvetThunder@lemmy.zip
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        14 months ago

        You can see the difference between the Apple and WhatsApp version. And I have Whatsapp installed on Android and it looks the same as the WhatsApp Emoji in the picture.

        So it doesn’t use the System Style, WhatsApp has its own IOS looking emojis.

      • @AVincentInSpace
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        14 months ago

        Meta is the name of the company. Facebook is the product made by the company. I acknowledged that in the comment you’re replying to.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      4 months ago

      That’s not how emojis work. They look different for everybody. It all depends on how the client renders Unicode character U+1F62C. Just like text.

      Try it out. Find a PC with a web browser and find your comment and emoji, and see how it looks on a different platform.

      • Zyratoxx
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        4 months ago

        Oh, yeah, I know how emojis work using unicode, I just didn’t bother to attach an image of the Samsung 😬 emoji for laziness reasons (I myself don’t have a Samsung Smartphone either.)

        I’m sorry, I should have done that, now I have made myself look like a fool :')

          • Zyratoxx
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            Haha no problem. We all are nerds around here, otherwise we’d probably be using Instagram and TikTok (and Reddit).

            Funny back story: I first learned about Unicode around 2013 - 15 (I always judge those wrong in terms of when I started using certain apps/sites)… Back then people would start commenting shit on YouTube using emoji but Firefox hadn’t introduced emoji support yet, causing them to be displayed as Unicode strings which lead to comments looking like this: “Hahaha, haven’t laughed like this in ages U+1F602 Best video ever U+2764”

  • CaptainBlagbird
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    94 months ago

    Is my group of friends and I the only ones who use that emoji as kind of “fuck yeah” or “yes please”?

    Because I don’t think this meme is meant that way 🤔

    • @tsugu@slrpnk.netOP
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      124 months ago

      Near miss. GIMP on Ubuntu, and the emojis originate from here. Just for fun I tried to match the gradient of the image featured in the article, instead of pasting the emojis one by one.

      • @tsugu@slrpnk.netOP
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        54 months ago

        I guess he doesn’t know about Lemmy’s image compression. Oh well, In case someone truly wants a high res version of this masterpiece, here it is.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav
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          24 months ago

          Sweet, thanks! I think the original looks just fine tbh, but my eyesight’s not the greatest :P