Emojis have become part and parcel of our social media life and they are continuously updated every year to the delight and scorn of people around the world. Sometimes you’ll see people celebrating the fact that the avocado and bacon emojis were finally added and now people are fighting over the cheeseburger emoji.
Over the weekend, Thomas Baekdal started a discussion comparing the cheeseburger emojis by Apple and Google. The issue was the fact that in the Google variant, the cheese is underneath the patty while on the Apple one, it was on top.
I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com/PgXmCkY3Yc
— Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) October 28, 2017
This led to an interesting discussion under the tweet where people gave their best descriptions of the ‘perfect cheeseburger,’
Cheese must be on top of meat.
Obviously, cheese must be on top of meat. But lettuce must be insulated by the tomato – so both are in the wrong.
— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) October 28, 2017
Hmmm…
lettuce under meat keeps the bottom bun from getting (as) soggy with meat juice.
— ~*godspeed baby*~ (@alex_insist) October 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/KeiyosX/status/924506569005522944
This tweet became rather popular and it captured Google’s CEO attention by making a rather odd announcement.
Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https://t.co/dXRuZnX1Ag
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017
Thanks to the furore about the Google Cheeseburger emoji, Google’s CEO said they will drop everything else they were doing today and address it. However, his tweet also led to people making burger puns along the thread.
Really?
https://twitter.com/hunterwalk/status/924491434157154310
Make it stop
https://twitter.com/MugOfPaul/status/924492410289233920
?
https://twitter.com/hunterwalk/status/924492671481085952
I’m done
https://twitter.com/alexqgb/status/924493241805766656
Okay this is good
Personally I relish this sort of discussion
— Ina Fried (@inafried) October 29, 2017
This guy gets it
https://twitter.com/Dave_Cochran/status/924620909968875520
This discussion was steered in different ways, which includes conspiracy theories and comparing it with other types of cheeseburger emojis.
Vegetarians had to be dragged into this
https://twitter.com/jguynn/status/924492674954092544
Facebook Messenger’s burger emoji was dragged into this discussion
@Facebook knows how. But team, we need to talk to @davidmarcus about being so stingy with the sesame. pic.twitter.com/Zu0VKVkV7u
— Kaspar Klippgen (@KasparKlippgen) October 29, 2017
…but David Marcus, Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products was quick to clarify this.
These are poppy seeds. But our cheese is excellent.
— David Marcus (@davidmarcus) October 29, 2017
Well, we are here waiting to see how Google will sort out this ‘mess’ surrounding their burger emoji, and yes this is becoming one of our problems in 2017.
