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Why are the people emoji changing sex?

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 10:21

I have noticed the last few days that every time I post 🤷♀️, it is automatically changed to a boy !
im not alone apparently, what is happening here?
I sincerely hope that mn are not changing skintone on poc posters too!

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C8H10N4O2 · 07/08/2025 13:04

And of course, stripping the modifier changes the sex of the emoji because the default is male.

Its about time Invisible Women was made a mandatory text. See also default white.

Aout25 · 06/08/2025 12:45

🐴🎃💩🤡💋🙇🏻‍♀️

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 12:40

🙋‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙅‍♀️💁‍♀️

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Springersrock · 06/08/2025 12:39

Yes, I noticed it yesterday with 🤦‍♀️

Edit - oh, it worked this time. I had a man with a symbol yesterday

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 06/08/2025 12:38

💁‍♀️

cyvguhb · 06/08/2025 12:28

I don't know what the emojis signify and was going to start a thread asking what I was missing as they were on every thread I've opened today, pleased I'm not out of the loop

Ragdollrage · 06/08/2025 12:28

Those bloody TRAs!!

🤷‍♀️🤰

BoomBoom70 · 06/08/2025 12:26

🤷‍♀️

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MattTech · 06/08/2025 12:24

Hi all..

This should now be fixed. Apologies about the disruption!

@FourIsNewSix That's mostly correct. In an effort to fix some formatting issues we've been having we tightened up our text processing. As a consequence of that, the emoji zero width joiner character was being stripped which removed the variant information from the emoji code.

This should all be fixed now, but as always please let us know if you see any issues!

Thanks

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 12:22

Seems to be working @waitingforpost! 🤷‍♀️

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 12:21

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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waitingforpost · 06/08/2025 12:21

I was testing it. how odd

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 12:21

Oh has it been fixed???? 👏

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 12:20

🤷‍♀️

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waitingforpost · 06/08/2025 12:11

🤷🏻‍♀️

FourIsNewSix · 06/08/2025 12:08

MN is already aware and fixing it, but in the meantime... I suppose the difference are three form emoji (neutral, male, female) Vs single word emoji.

For the three form ones, it looks behind the scenes as "shrug - female", "shrug - male" and "shrug", and the MN user interface reads it wrongly and sees it as "shrug" "female" or "shrug" "male", putting neutral shrug and separate male/female into the image.

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jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 11:33

VioletandDill · 06/08/2025 11:16

I'm very confused though because the 'boy' one you're posting doesn't appear overly boy like to me. What emojis are on the iPhone? On Pixel I've got 3 options so can post 3 different ones on MN, (Man, woman, either) all of which are pretty androgynous anyway.

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Here it’s very difficult to make them bigger but there are more and they were clearly women or men , Apple introduced a more androgynous one but left the rest as they were , I’m sorry I can’t fit more on and make them bigger.

Why are the people emoji changing sex?
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MelOfTheRoses · 06/08/2025 11:30

🤦♀️

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MattTech · 06/08/2025 11:26

Hi all...

Apologies - this was an unintended side effect of a change to improve our post formatting.

We should have a fix for this in place shortly.

I'll follow up as soon as it's been released.

Thanks

OldBeyondMyYears · 06/08/2025 11:23

Oh thank god it’s not just me!! I’ve been searching all my settings (and Google!) to see what was wrong with my sodding phone!

PractisingMyTelekenipsis · 06/08/2025 11:20

🤷♂️🤷🏼♀️🤷

VioletandDill · 06/08/2025 11:16

jeffgoldblum · 06/08/2025 10:34

That’s my point!!! I can make a boy! 🤷 , it’s only the girls who are changed!

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I'm very confused though because the 'boy' one you're posting doesn't appear overly boy like to me. What emojis are on the iPhone? On Pixel I've got 3 options so can post 3 different ones on MN, (Man, woman, either) all of which are pretty androgynous anyway.

Why are the people emoji changing sex?
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BeckyAMumsnet · 06/08/2025 10:51

Oh this will never do.

Thanks for alerting us - we're looking into it now.

💃

Keroppi · 06/08/2025 10:51

This is so funny 🤷♀️

TheCurious0range · 06/08/2025 10:45

TheCurious0range · 06/08/2025 10:45

👰🏼♀️or a bride

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No not even a bride!

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