While the trolling of right-wing Facebook pages might give LGBT rights campaigners a chuckle, a couple of other recent news stories prove much more sobering. Some users have called for all the "leftists" leaving a rainbow flag to banned from Fronda's page, while others have asked Facebook to remove Fronda from the website entirely. Meanwhile the comments section below the article is subject to much finger pointing and debate. Rather frustratingly for the Fronda journalist, his post received a whopping 2,000 rainbow reactions – almost ten times more the amount of likes. Robak then finished off by suggesting Zukerburg's statement about the pride emoji should have begun with the words "Leftist ideology destroys family values and the foundations of our civilization". There hasn't been and there never will be because it offends Muslims and the representatives of the LGBT community." "Do you ever remember seeing emojis for Christmas or Easter on Facebook? Not a stupid Christmas tree or eggs but just the cross? Of course not. During his lengthy rant Robak also accused Facebook of not introducing an emoji with the catholic cross on it and blamed the situation on the LGBT community and Muslims: In an article published yesterday morning, Fronda's Jacek Robak unleashed a seething rant at Facebook, who he believes are pushing "pro homosexual propaganda" into the faces of its users. In the past Fronda have declared Halloween as satanic and claimed that Yoga can cause "spontaeous orgasims". One such Facebook page and website is the extreme Catholic portal Fronda, whose content is so outrageous even many PiS voters distance themselves from it. The situation has sparked anger among Poland's strongly catholic, conservative, nationalist and right-wing circles, whose favourite Facebook pages are powerless to stop the rainbow flag appearing on all their posts. The official Facebook page of PiS has also been subject to similar treatment. As a result, some portals have seen their 'likes' and 'loves' accredited to their articles end up being completely outnumbered by 'pride' reactions.
In the last few days thousands of social media users have used the rainbow reaction to troll nationalist, right-wing and conservative Facebook pages. It will remain an option for the rest of June as a means of celebrating 'pride month'. The rainbow reaction can be activated by 'liking' Facebook's official LGBTQ page. With the end of June and gay pride month, Facebook has removed the rainbow emoji.As more of Poland's Facebook users have come to learn about the social media portal's new rainbow 'pride' emoji, an inevitable clash of online opinions has quickly followed.įor those who haven't noticed yet, Facebook have decided to activate a so called 'pride' reaction emoji that can be used in the same way as a 'like' or the other recently added emojis such as 'love' and 'angry'.
The post has now been shared over 9,500 times and gathered over 28,000 “reactions” – including over 3,000 rainbow flags. Over time, more Christians have come up to support the appeal.Ī Facebook spokesman later told the Huffington Post: “This reaction is not actually available on Facebook, and is not something we’re working on.” Thomson Reutersįacebook has refused to cave in to demands by Christian evangelicals to create a cross “reaction” emoji.Ĭampaigners are particularly incensed at the lack of a Christ-related miniature symbol after a Pride flag was added to the social media giant’s pictorial lexicon last month.įacebook introduced the rainbow-coloured reaction emoji to mark LGBT Pride month on 9 June and “celebrate love and diversity”.īut on 24 June, public figure Hikmat Hanna posted an image asking for a cross reaction emoji as well, which was then shared by evangelist Joshua Feuerstein to his two million followers.