Apple Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign With New iOS 9.1 Emoji Symbol

[biscuitsxluv]

Big. Fat. One. Eye.
Ugh!
Glad I'm not the only one who knows what this symbol means.

 

[sudo1996]

The picture of the example usage looks like a guy trolling someone by spamming the eye emoji.

 

[You are the One]

It's the same eye that is on the dollar bill. "Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws." - Confucius

 

[MrCrowbar]

Errr... everyone got made fun of and bullied at school. It's part of culture. If you don't learn to deal with it at school, you're gonna have real trouble fitting it in an office environment. People who were bullied at school because they were nerds often became entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators. It builds character and makes you strong. Look up your school bully on Facebook, chances are he did not make it far in life.

 

[0098386]

Having been in one, yes.

Outstanding, I'll message all the support groups with this solution.

Could you help me out, I'm trying to find the email addresses of these women so I can forward your advice on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/why-didnt-you-just-leave_n_5805134.html

 

[RichardI]

Wow. That'll stop those bullies!
Yep, whip out your cyclops card and show it to their face!
Instant submission!
It's brilliant! Why didn't somebody already............

 

[Altis]

Wow. That'll stop those bullies!
Yep, whip out your cyclops card and show it to their face!
Instant submission!
It's brilliant! Why didn't somebody already............

I always wished that I had an emoji to put those bullies their place. Nothing shuts them up like an emoji. Honestly, a middle finger, eggplant and surprised face probably are more effective anyways.

What ever happened to just calling out a bully's actions? If someone is bullying you, say so.

Then again, "bullying" is changing these days to mean less and less. You can now report someone on Twitter for "harassment" for disagreeing with you.

 

[Jon-Erich]

I was bullied a little bit in elementary school and middle school. I witnessed bullying in high school. While I'm all for a campaign that makes bullying socially unacceptable, I don't think this will stop bullying. Honestly, if you want to stop bullying, you have to allow the person being bullied to beat the **** out of the bully. One big failure of the school system over the years is the policy of suspending two students who get in a fight even if they knew who started it. It has resolved nothing and has made things worse. I say if the school can prove that someone was being bullied, then they should get a free pass if they happen to break the other guy's face in.

 

[cmichaelb]

Outstanding, I'll message all the support groups with this solution.

Could you help me out, I'm trying to find the email addresses of these women so I can forward your advice on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/why-didnt-you-just-leave_n_5805134.html

Thanks for providing more evidence to support my point. I appreciate it.

 

[Solomani]

Honestly, if you want to stop bullying, you have to allow the person being bullied to beat the **** out of the bully. One big failure of the school system over the years is the policy of suspending two students who get in a fight even if they knew who started it. It has resolved nothing and has made things worse. I say if the school can prove that someone was being bullied, then they should get a free pass if they happen to break the other guy's face in.

Fair argument. The kid who instigated the fight should be the one who is suspended/disciplined. Unfortunately, that's difficult to do in high school. Witnesses? Many of the high schooler witnesses will probably have biased/false testimonies. If the witnesses are friends of the bully boy, then they will claim that the bully boy was innocent, and that his victim was the one who started the fight.

Surveillance cameras in every corner of the school might help spot the instigators and troublemakers. But how many schools can afford to install all those video cameras, and then pay a couple of security guards to monitor them all the time?

 

[jase1125]

I was bullied a little bit in elementary school and middle school. I witnessed bullying in high school. While I'm all for a campaign that makes bullying socially unacceptable, I don't think this will stop bullying. Honestly, if you want to stop bullying, you have to allow the person being bullied to beat the **** out of the bully. One big failure of the school system over the years is the policy of suspending two students who get in a fight even if they knew who started it. It has resolved nothing and has made things worse. I say if the school can prove that someone was being bullied, then they should get a free pass if they happen to break the other guy's face in.

You cannot possibly believe a bully should be held accountable for their actions? You cannot believe the victim as a right to self-defense? The bully is just misunderstood and we need to empathize with his plight. Besides, the victim probably had it coming because he is advantaged. At least that is what some groups will tell you. Anyway totally agree. The victims should band together and stomp the bull out of the bully and repeat behavior is likely to not occur.

 

[Lesser Evets]

Now all the bullies will use that emoji to bully victims further. I'm sure groups of abusive kids will use it to hammer on their prey even more.

 

[mazz0]

When they talk about combining, they actually mean combining the codes. They combine the code for the eye and the speech bubble, and when the OS sees those two codes, it draws this new emoji. I understand why the description is confusing, but it isn't the drawings that are combined, just the way they are written in underlying codes.

I hope that makes sense.

Oh, I see, so it parses the string and if it finds a combination of emoji codes that matches recognised pattern it doesn't show the separate emojis and shows a different image altogether instead?

My reading of it was that if you include that zero width thing it simply renders the two emoji next to each other, with no gap.

 

[Dfault]

I might be an a$$, but I'm not against bullying. Why? Because back in my day kids had a back bone and would suck it up and then eventually grow into men and show up them bullies by doing better than them at life.

 

[mazz0]

I might be an a$$, but I'm not against bullying. Why? Because back in my day kids had a back bone and would suck it up and then eventually grow into men and show up them bullies by doing better than them at life.

You're an a$$.