'The nerd emoji is not who we are'

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'The nerd emoji - 🤓 - is not who we are' Lowri, 13, is campaigning for an option to add glasses to emojis, just like you can with skin and hair colour Read more:

is calling for better representation from tech companies.

Lowri, 13, from Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, says one of the few bespectacled emojis is the "nerd" face, which she believes is damaging to the confidence of young glasses wearers. She has written to the Unicode Consortium, a group of tech companies which approves new emojis, calling for an option to add glasses to emojis., where their latest film Encanto - which features a glasses-wearing heroine - was honoured."Teenagers [who wear glasses] don't really feel represented," Lowri said.

"Not positively anyway. If it's representation then it's the nerd [emoji] and that's not who we are."

 

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