MAGA has ruined another emoji

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Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.

If Republicans ever start using ✨ I’m screwed. —Kate

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If you’re one of the over twenty-million people who watched Adolescence on Netflix, myself and Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion dove into the the manosphere terms and trends cited in the episodes:

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In the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, Democrats, feeling raw after the second morning in their lifetime waking up to find out Donald Trump is the president, grieved in mysterious ways. One of those ways was by switching up their emoji usage. As

After School by Casey Lewis

noted, those who would previously reach for red ❤️ to express their love now felt the symbol was tainted. 💙 became the new heart of choice. (To me it reads a little too “Blue MAGA,” but to each their own.)

As a 🫶 girly myself, I wasn’t directly affected and assumed this would become irrelevant with time. Instead, as politics have heated up with the administration’s blizzard of executive orders and Elon Musk’s consolidation of power through DOGE, emoji polarization has only increased.