erm actually its offensive because a 10-year-old boy from Oxfordshire has launched a campaign to get Apple to change the emoji commonly understood to stand for “nerd”. You know the one: the familiar yellow roundel has acquired thick black glasses, and the eager grin underneath reveals two enormous buck teeth. Teddy Cottle, himself a handsome little bespectacled chap with no obvious beaverlike dentition, thinks that the emoji is “offensive and insulting to all those people in the world who wear glasses”.
He initially planned to write a letter of complaint to Apple, one of the largest corporations in the world, but his French teacher inspired him to think bigger. He has launched an online petition. I don’t know if it will prosper; but with the greatest of admiration and respect to Teddy, I hope it doesn’t. I take a personal interest in this because it so happens i am the absolute spitting image of the nerd emoji. And when i have, say, divulged himself of some particularly arcane football statistic, i will often proudly post the nerd emoji by way of congratulating himself. 🤓🤓👆🤓👆🤓👆🤓👆🤓👆👆👆👆
Etm actually you need to use two hands 👆🤓☝️