Remove the eggplant emoticon

wWSunPandaWw

We all love the Scratch emojis. Those little Scratch cats and those tiny little food icons are so adorable!
But, there's an Eggplant emoji.
It was blocked from Instagram because it was being used to symbolize something very inappropriate.
And Instagram has a higher Age Demographic.
You might be thinking, “Oh, but since Scratch is geared towards younger kids, there's not much of a risk, right?”
Well, yes, but also no.
People who are at about Instagram's age demographic who use Scratch might use the emoji for the same, inappropriate reasons.
And younger kids will see that. Oh noes!
So my suggestion to not make the eggplant emoticon usable, since people on a much older kids' website used it for inappropriate stuff, which could then be brought into Scratch.
Thoughts?
And please remember to keep this conversation appropriate for all ages.

PrincessFlowerTV

I honestly think it's ok- I have never see people use it, because, well, it's a vegetable.
If you see it being used inappropriately, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

No support.

Every emoji can be potentially misused to represent something inappropriate. Does that mean we have to remove all the emojis?

wWSunPandaWw

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:
No support.

Every emoji can be potentially misused to represent something inappropriate. Does that mean we have to remove all the emojis?

True, but it's especially exclusive for the Eggplant emoticon.

PrincessFlowerTV

wWSunPandaWw wrote:
-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:
No support.

Every emoji can be potentially misused to represent something inappropriate. Does that mean we have to remove all the emojis?
True, but it's especially exclusive for the Eggplant emoticon.

Have you ever seen it get used misused in scratch?

wWSunPandaWw

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
wWSunPandaWw wrote:
-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:
No support.

Every emoji can be potentially misused to represent something inappropriate. Does that mean we have to remove all the emojis?
True, but it's especially exclusive for the Eggplant emoticon.
Have you ever seen it get used misused in scratch?

No.
But have I ever seen an inappropriate project?

TheMonsterOfTheDeep

I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

Haz-_-

TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:
I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

PrincessFlowerTV

Haz-_- wrote:
TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:
I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

Instead of just quoting what your thoughts are, don't post.

dude341

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
Haz-_- wrote:
TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:
I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

Instead of just quoting what your thoughts are, don't post.

They are agreeing with what they said. It's constructive.

-Osiris-

No support, everything can be interpreted in an inappropriate way. Everyone sees what they want to see.

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
I honestly think it's ok- I have never see people use it, because, well, it's a vegetable.

Actually, eggplants are fruits.

PrincessFlowerTV

-Osiris- wrote:
No support, everything can be interpreted in an inappropriate way. Everyone sees what they want to see.
PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
I honestly think it's ok- I have never see people use it, because, well, it's a vegetable.
Actually, eggplants are fruits.

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blue-circle

Support people use that emoji in a lot of bad ways (i've seen it before at school etc)

walkcycle

-Osiris- wrote:
Actually, eggplants are fruits.

Mind blown!

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
If you see it being used inappropriately, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.

This.

Dabzers

No support no one on this site uses it this way that I know of.

CosmicBunBun

We shouldn't start blocking because of hypothetical situations, and on a heavily moderated children's website, I doubt this happens at all.

WolfCat67

Just because this emoji exists on Scratch doesn't mean it'll be misused.
Heck, just because this emoji exists on Scratch doesn't mean that it'll be used in general. When was the last time you've even seen someone use this emoji on Scratch, or any of the food emojis in general (aside from things like pizza)?

This is a kid's site. Much of the younger audience wouldn't even know what it's meant to show when misused.

I-Iz-A-Litten

I didn't even know there was an eggplant emoji, (on Scratch).

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
I honestly think it's ok- I have never see people use it, because, well, it's a vegetable.
If you see it being used inappropriately, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.

yes, report innapropite projects when you see one.

Haz-_-

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
Haz-_- wrote:
TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:
I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

Instead of just quoting what your thoughts are, don't post.

So I'm not allowed to share my thoughts that are the same of other peoples post? interesting I wonder why other people do it?

mica43683

This is completely unnecessary. I agree with these guys:

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:
.If you see it being used inappropriately, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.

TheMonsterOfTheDeep wrote:
I don't really see any point to this. Even if the emoji is removed, somebody could use the exact same euphemism just by posting the word “eggplant,” as well as any other, similar euphemism.

WolfCat67 wrote:
Just because this emoji exists on Scratch doesn't mean it'll be misused.
Heck, just because this emoji exists on Scratch doesn't mean that it'll be used in general. When was the last time you've even seen someone use this emoji on Scratch, or any of the food emojis in general (aside from things like pizza)?

-Osiris- wrote:
Everything can be interpreted in an inappropriate way.

No support, sorry.

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