IT House News on November 30, 10-year-old Teddy from Peppard, Oxfordshire, recently launched a petition asking Apple to change the "Nerd Face" emoji.
Nerd Face is an Emoji introduced in Unicode 8. It is equipped with huge glasses and an awkward smile. will also reveal two front teeth in the Apple system.
Teddy believes that Apple's "nerd face" has an "offensive and insulting" contextual meaning, giving people a stereotyped and wrong impression of people who wear glasses. He also redesigned the Emoji to replace the toothy one with a smile. smile.
Teddy said in an interview with the BBC: "I hope this changes. Apple is making people who wear glasses very scary. I believe there are tens of thousands of people around the world who feel the same way as me."
IT House inquired about relevant information. Currently, the "nerd faces" of Google and Facebook do not show teeth, while Apple and X (Twitter) have toothy smiles.
