The internet, especially social media platforms, is a place where anything can become a trend for good or bad reasons. So recently, a mere red-flag emoji went viral on Twitter as several users started to use it as a “warning” for a particular phrase or activity which they think is a “red flag” in someone or something. Twitter says that it saw a 455% uptick in tweets with the red flag emoji over the last few weeks and it reached 1.5 million tweets globally last Tuesday.
Now, for those wondering what the red-flag-emoji trend on Twitter is, these are tweets, usually with a sentence that the user thinks is non-compliant, along with a series of red flag emojis. These are to represent the things that one should not do (or have) according to the person who is posting the tweet.
How is the Red-Flag Emoji Trend Disturbing for Some Users?
Now, although the trend has spread all over the world with millions of tweets with the red-flag emoji, it has become somewhat annoying for some users on Twitter. As pointed out by a Twitter user @pyrrhl, the red-flag emojis can become pretty disturbing for the visually impaired userbase that depends on the screen reader accessibility feature to browse their news feeds on Twitter.
