here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:
this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones
How long until Muskrat replaces the Twitter emojis with AI slop?
Apple:
Google:
Microsoft:
Samsung:
Whatsapp:
Twitter:
Facebook:
LG:
I don’t mind the Microsoft style, but I wouldn’t be sure it’s a shark without context
Wow Twitter’s really does suck, huh?
The Apple and Samsung ones look oddly similar
Shouldn’t get a perfect score when it’s still missing a fin, wtf!?
Graded on a curve
I’m saying this lightly, but “triggering af”
No, I think you used that term 100% appropriately. Trigger warning to anyone who hasn’t viewed the image, yet.
See similar review of ant emoji.
“Firefox: that is a termite.”
Embedded the image, you have to click to view full size probably:
Hork bajir reference gets an upvote
And that ant’s mouth parts/muzzle really does look like a Hork-Bajir’s mouth does on the covers that feature them!
Funny, I just wish the image wasn’t so horribly compressed. I can’t even see the 4 gills on Facebook’s one.
Also, why does Apple get 9/10 and Samsung only 8/10 when they’re pretty much identical in terms of accuracy?
Here’s the Facebook Shark in full quality.
TIL that sharks have, and always have had five gill slits??? Is this a Mandela effect situation?
And they are way more compressed than on those images.
I now realized I never had a good idea of how sharks look like.
Google gets bonus points for being the most blahaj.
Unfortunately, they changed it:
Here are some fishies more
Default androidTil all sharks do a shrimp pose. Must be the Victory sign equivalent for humans
It’s because they’re all caught in an invisible square cage :(
How do any of these sharks function without a cloaca?!?
Fish asshole y is usually hidden in an anal fin.
The most important metric is shark happiness.
