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I've seen it a few times now and I have no idea what it's supposed to mean.

For that matter, I don't know what it's supposed to mean period.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I see a modern car wheel on Memmy iOS.

[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

So far, we've got an old fashioned spoke wheel, a modern car wheel and a bunch of lines. What the heck?

[–] slazer2au 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to Emoji. Where everyone follows the standard their own way and not everyone sees the same thing.

For me I see a square with an X through it so I assume my android device does not support that particular emoji yet.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Screenshot so you can see it on iOS

[–] FederatedSaint 4 points 10 months ago

Wow yeah, interesting! I'm on Sync/Android and it's a brown wagon wheel for me.

[–] andrewta 2 points 10 months ago

That's crazy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

The Unicode standard just specified a "wheel". A particular amusing (read: drama inducing) case is with the πŸ”« emoji: Unicode specified it as "Pistol", but depending on your font (and version), it can either appear as a water gun, or a musket or revolver.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), all major vendors have now switched over to a water gun, so no more amusing forum threads cases by the different meanings.

So in addition to the interpretation being unclear, there is also no real standard for emoji.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Same in Jerboa for Android.

Yes, I'm aware this may differ depending on your specific brand of Android phone. 🀷

[–] WhoRoger 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Liar, Jerboa on Android is showing an old wooden wheel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have an older phone which is probably why i see the wooden wheel. Rubber wheels hadn't been invented yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have an even older phone, which is probably why I see a rectangle with a cross through it

[–] davidgro 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would depend on what brand and how old your phone is on Android, for example I think Samsung has its own set of emoji - at least for older phones

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[–] zepheriths 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's an old wagon wheel on Motorola, come on man, you have to know there is more than one android phone

[–] astropenguin5 1 points 10 months ago

Also wagon wheel on pixel 7

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://emojigraph.org/wheel/

Displayed as a classical wooden wheel for a dray or modern car wheel with a tire depending on the platform. May be used in the context of "reinventing the wheel."

[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That is so weird. And I just tried it on Firefox and got this:

So it's either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Don't hate, I have to have Chrome for work and it's a pain to run two separate browsers. I'll end up doing that eventually when my adblockers no longer work though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Neither really, it's a font thing. I see a wooden wheel in the page title, a car wheel in my tab bar, and it's missing in the window title.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It works fine in Firefox.

Screenshot of the headline with wheel emoji rendered in Firefox

Inspecting it, here on my instances Feddit.de rendered theme shows two fonts in use - a fallback for the emoji because I assume Lato does not include it:

Screenshot of headline fonts being used

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's gotta be a mac thing. I switched to my desktop browser which is firefox on win10 and it shows as the car wheel like on ios.

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[–] marcos 1 points 10 months ago

You need better fonts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can sell stolen wagons there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Haha unexpected Red Dead Remption

[–] Candelestine 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Appears to be an old fashioned wooden spoke wheel. A cart wheel, as in, the wheel of an old cart. Connotations would presumably be mostly related to "rolling".

[–] FlyingSquid 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oh weird. That's totally not what I see. Maybe it's a Mac thing?

This is what I see:

[–] WhoRoger 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If your OS doesn't support the emoji, it shows an empty or placeholder image. If you see that icon, you can copy it to clipboard and paste to search here: https://emojipedia.org/

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I honestly didn't realize it was that it didn't support the emoji. I thought the horizontal lines WAS the emoji and I was just not getting what it meant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Double hamburger menu

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Screenshot of this thread on Android so you can see what it looks like for others

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not all others. Another person said it's a modern car wheel for them.

[–] Alchemy 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s what it is for me on iphone using Firefox, the modern wheel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I saw, and now I think it's by app for us on phones, then, as my normal android emoji keyboard has a completely different set of wheels when look at them in other apps. I use Connect and see a wagon wheel, the other guy is on Memmy and sees a modern one, kinda curious what the other apps see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thunder here, it's a wagon wheel

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[–] JJROKCZ 1 points 10 months ago

On iOS it’s a modern car wheel strangely enough

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I see a box with a cross in the middle, as in the icon for "unsupported icon" . I imagine it's the same for you.

I'm on android.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see a bunch of horizontal lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well, yea, I can see that, but I imagine the bunch of horizontal lines is how your device tells you that it encountered an "unsupported icon".

[–] TonyOstrich 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think so, I see an old spoke wheel on Android running Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean there is a ROFL emoji already: 🀣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope it's related to drugs.

[–] DiploRaucous 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope it's related to Limp Bizkit.

[–] j4k3 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is the special group club for advanced Linux users. Like Disney's Club 33. You have to know Pam, offer hash, and keep a secret shadow file to get in.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who thought 'Dharma Wheel'?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Hah, me too!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Looks like a carriage wheel to me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

An secretive elite group of users rumored to be able to obtain the great power of root.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

maybe like a settings wheel?

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