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(Header image: A screenshot of WeChat’s emoji library shows that the “smoking soldier” has lost his cigar.We know you adore our vast library of stickers and love using them to express your personality and emotions. Among the symbols singled out by the group were the broken heart, “praying hands,” and poop emojis. In late January, a group of artists staged a small protest outside WeChat’s corporate headquarters in the southern megacity of Guangzhou, claiming the app’s users should have been consulted about the redesigned symbols, which they felt had missed the mark. The emoji makeovers weren’t welcomed by all users. The app’s “bloody meat cleaver” emoji is now a bloodless meat cleaver, and several new emojis, including the classic smiley face, as well as the “fireworks” and “bomb” symbols, now include accompanying animations.

The cigarless soldier isn’t the only WeChat emoji to attract attention after the Version 8.0.0 update. Zhang added that he hoped young people would agree that the non-smoking soldier is “much cooler” than his predecessor. “Enterprises, and especially well-known ones, should shoulder the responsibility and do their part to create a smoke-free China.” “Tencent’s decision has come a little late, but given that it’s such a ubiquitous social platform, it’s good that it has taken the lead as a no-smoking role model,” Zhang was quoted as saying. Zhang Jianzhong, president of the Beijing Tobacco Control Association, told Beijing Daily his organization even personally contacted Tencent’s CEO, Ma Huateng - also known as Pony Ma - to raise awareness about the message the symbol was sending. The association, in turn, lobbied the city’s cyberspace authorities to resolve the matter.īoth QQ - another Tencent-owned messaging app - and Weibo removed their tobacco-using emojis in late 2017, but WeChat’s smoking soldier persisted, seemingly undeterred. According to an article Sunday by state-run newspaper Beijing Daily, anti-smoking campaigners in Beijing first reported “smoking emojis” on social platforms like WeChat, Weibo, and QQ to the city’s tobacco control association in 2017. WeChat has been under pressure to reconsider its tobacco-related messaging for years. The platform declined an interview request Monday, and a source within the company told Sixth Tone that staff had been asked not to discuss the matter with the media.
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WeChat has been reticent to say more about what prompted the change, which came with the Version 8.0.0 update earlier this year and has since gone largely unnoticed.
