It takes no time for the internet to take notice. Hours after Emojipedia, an emoji reference website added 230 new emojis following approval by the Unicode Consortium, a particular emoji, with a “picking hand” symbol is viral on the internet.
?? 230 new emojis coming to phones in 2019 https://t.co/40lHKWeBFj pic.twitter.com/GKGJvS1dJf
— Emojipedia ? (@Emojipedia) February 5, 2019
✅ Approved in #emoji12: Pinching Hand https://t.co/g9P4Zdq7UW pic.twitter.com/WmNMSPa1dc
— Emojipedia ? (@Emojipedia) February 5, 2019
Among the hundreds of emojis which includes a yawning face, a dog, Pinching hand won over the internet. Twitterati believe that emoji would be used to denote penis size.
Unsolicited dick pic community is in a panic rn https://t.co/ScJgOeg19N
— dad (@NeptxneDubz) February 5, 2019
The pinching hand emoji will solely be used for small dicks pic.twitter.com/iuG49co66D
— Brian Koerber (@bkurbs) February 6, 2019
FINALLY a small dick emoji https://t.co/TTvzP609Xv
— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) February 5, 2019
On the official website emojipedia.org, the symbol has been defined as, “A hand with thumb and index finger in close proximity. Used to suggest that something is small, or to gesture a small amount.”