The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags.

Microsoft is changing its toy gun emoji to a revolver — the exact opposite of Apple By Matt Weinberger 2016-08-05T16:37:23Z ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer ...

Below: Apple’s water gun. Below: Twitter’s water gun. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when Apple in 2016 rolled out its own ...

Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people. The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji.

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.