Am I overthinking this? Something sinister in Emojis - Frequently Used Unicorns with Rainbow horns?

[loveyouradvice]

This has bugged me for a while..... my iPhone has two lots of Frequently used Emojis ... a group which I genuinely do frequently use, and before that a group of eight unicorns, all with rainbow horns, doing various things ... snoozing, sunglasses, etc.

I've always thought weird ... and then my sister accidentally sent me a unicorn.

So....

1. Does anyone else have this? Is it just an iPhone phenomenon or wider
2. Why have random unicorns been chosen...especially given the most recent associations with them..... I feel like I'm being subliminally indoctrinated

Not on my iPhone 6s.

My 'frequently used' starts with my memojis (though I haven't used them in months) and is followed by my most recently used emojis. The most recently used block changes as I use them, but the memojis stay the same.

Could you have created a set of unicorn memojis and forgotten about them?

It it your ‘memoji’ section? I have it before my actual frequently used emojis. Maybe unicorn is the default?

I have never sent a unicorn emoji to anyone. A while ago, my phone changed things around, and now when I go to emojis it added a group of emojis to the left of my actual most-used emojis. The new emojis were all rainbow unicorns. I have just looked again, and now it also includes a dinosaur and a shark, as well as 6 rainbow unicorns (I haven’t ever sent a shark emoji either, and may have sent a dinosaur one, but unlikely). These are clearly not ‘frequently used’ by me - I assumed it was maybe a ‘these are the most popular emojis in use’ section, but it has always annoyed me that I have a group of emojis labelled ‘frequently used’ on my phone which I have never used.

My “frequently used” emoji list has the Memojis first. If I press the ... button, I can then select the unicorns. But they don’t then show as default in that list.

I've sent a unicorn by mistake before

Hmmmmm - so lots of us have it.

1. Who chose it for us?
2. Why?

Is it sinister... or am I overthinking.... think I am becoming paranoid

I'm not sure what the problem is here - - are you trying to say that the unicorn is something to do with trans issues (is it?) and therefore there's some big undercover plot to make our phones send out random unicorn emojis to each other?
Don't really know what to say to that one tbh, what even would be the end game if you think it through
You're right when you say becoming paranoid, it definitely comes across that way

1. Who chose it for us?
The emojis?
They're part of your phone.
So the phone makers ie Apple/Samsung/whatever.

Lol - I sometimes wonder if I’m on a list somewhere in the depths of Apple HQ for repeatedly typing “transwomen” despite my phone insisting on “correcting” me and inserting a space every single time. But I haven’t been selected for the Rainbow Unicorn Indoctrination Programme yet.

You’re probably being paranoid, OP, but honestly the level of Big Tech creepiness around all this is so mind blowing, and so hard to credit if you haven’t seen it in action, that I can’t really blame you for the paranoia!

Has somebody (a child?) set your memojis to be unicorns?

The unicorns are stickers though not emojis. There are others as well. Personally, I favour the giraffes!

I don't know the automatic stickers are random, I think.
I used to have the rainbow unicorns, and an angry cat, now I have some badly drawn dinosaurs...or crocodiles and a flower that looks like a fried egg. They're all shit though!

What do you mean? Sinister in what way?

How does feminism come into it?

@TheWaif

What do you mean? Sinister in what way?

How does feminism come into it?

Exactly Sounds like nothing to do with feminism. just people getting worried about their browsing history, or there's trans people controlling the emojis on their phone or something (gleaned from post about "big tech creepiness"?)

Give me giraffes any day.....

Lol - I sometimes wonder if I’m on a list somewhere in the depths of Apple HQ for repeatedly typing “transwomen” despite my phone insisting on “correcting” me and inserting a space every single time. But I haven’t been selected for the Rainbow Unicorn Indoctrination Programme yet.

You’re probably being paranoid, OP, but honestly the level of Big Tech creepiness around all this is so mind blowing, and so hard to credit if you haven’t seen it in action, that I can’t really blame you for the paranoia!

Exactly this!!!!!!!!!

Two years ago I had no idea that high-tech and Twitter etc were so anti-women, nor that the IT sector had a much higher rate of transwomen than other sectors..... now I am seeing conspiracy round every corner!

So unicorns flying into my message box feel VERY unwelcome!

Has somebody (a child?) set your memojis to be unicorns?

They came up automatically on my iPhone.

Two years ago I had no idea that high-tech and Twitter etc were so anti-women, nor that the IT sector had a much higher rate of transwomen than other sectors....

Even if as you say there were a lot of trans women in tech, why would they be setting everyone's phone to send out default unicorns?

Even if as you say there were a lot of trans women in tech, why would they be setting everyone's phone to send out default unicorns? confused

Agree... but SOMEONE is setting them FOR SOME REASON - what is it ???? And why?

They're memojis but you can change the animal to any one of about 30, I've even got skulls and snakes and all sorts in mine.

You just swipe across on the animals at the top

@loveyouradvice

Even if as you say there were a lot of trans women in tech, why would they be setting everyone's phone to send out default unicorns? confused

Agree... but SOMEONE is setting them FOR SOME REASON - what is it ???? And why?

Are you ok?

Are you ok?

I'm genuinely not being sarky or goading or whatever before anyone says, but I'm with you on this one - I genuinely do wonder/worry about some of the posts on here sometimes lol!

@Quaagars

Yes OP, you're overthinking it. You can change it to your avatar or an octopus or anything.

it's a Memoji.. just pick a different one