(Remember #BernTheWitch? Yikes.) More importantly, it’s also evidence of sexism that has been slithering around Warren’s campaign from the start. As even other Sanders supporters have noted, it’s a particularly bad look for Sanders’ supporters, who have been accused of bro-iness and online harassment in the past. Being a fan of something or someone shouldn’t mean flocking to harass their perceived enemies with endless insulting animal emoji.īesides, the snake emoji is more than just stanning gone wrong. Other celebrities have faced bubonic plagues of rat emoji.
Beyoncé fans are known to swarm the accounts of anyone critical of their queen with bee emoji. If you consider other waves of animal emoji, the list just gets longer. Swift and Kardashian West are far from the only celebrities to get snaked: The trend has impacted everyone from singers to drag queens to politicians to athletes. No matter who is mistaken when it comes to what was said in the meeting between Sanders and Warren, snake emoji spamming is a symptom of larger social media sicknesses. “Hypothetically, if Senator Warren were to add the snake emoji to her keywords, the emoji would be filtered from her comments.” (Warren could also mute the emoji on Twitter, but that’s not quite the same as scrubbing them entirely.) “The AI we built to proactively filter out bullying or offensive terms doesn’t filter out the snake emoji, given the many different ways it can be used,” explains a spokesperson for Facebook, Instagram’s parent company. The feature can now be employed by any user, which could prove useful to Senator Warren, should she decide to employ it. Kim Kardashian West later availed herself of the same filter to rid herself of snake emoji posted by angered Swifties. Instagram had been building a filter that would automatically delete specific words (or emoji) from users’ feeds, and Swift’s account made a fitting first test case. There was one upside to the Taylor Swift snake-pit situation, though. She also joined incensed fans in the snake emoji flood. In response, Kardashian West posted audio on Snapchat of Swift seeming to approve the lyrics prior to the track’s release. After the release of West’s single “Famous,” Swift said that she was offended by the song’s lyrics, in which West both takes credit for Swift’s fame and says he thinks the pair might sleep together. In July 2016, people began spamming Swift’s accounts with snake emoji because they believed she was duplicitous-partially due to situations with ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris and Katy Perry, but mostly because of a longtime feud with Kanye West (and, by extension, Kim Kardashian West). Calling someone a snake is hardly a social media invention, but employing the snake emoji as a form of memetic harassment started with popstar Taylor Swift. Warren is not the first woman to be visited with a social media plague of snake emoji in the midst of a controversy.
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