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The internet's fight over dinosaur emoji
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:27:37
Publish Date: 2022-01-14 14:06:35
Description:

Emoji might not be 66 million years old, but they are pretty much everywhere. Join Ben and Amory as they explore the history of dinosaur emoji in LGBTQ+ communities and their more recent use as an online dog-whistle for anti-trans activists. What happens when one symbol is used for conflicting reasons? And can the dinosaur emoji avoid redefinition — or extinction?
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