Visual language has gradually replaced verbal language in the digital world. Users' taste for expressing their feelings, emotions and reactions to content through emojis has turned the social world into a space full of hearts, happy, sad and funny faces.
However, these seemingly harmless drawings can become a weapon if we transfer them to the real world. That is what the artist Tadas Maksimovas has wanted to do, who, through a catapult that launches emojis, seeks to raise awareness about the emotional violence that these animations often generate.
Maksimovas himself was the guinea pig in a video in which he is seen receiving bolivia phone number the impacts of different types of emojis through what he calls an “emotigun”, a weapon that launches up to 10 emojis per second directly at the target’s face.
This artistic project originated in a meme in which Rambo was seen shooting Facebook thumbs instead of bullets, and although the criticism of social media and the recognition that the artist is obtaining through the same means may seem contradictory, Maksimovas leaves the interpretation to the discretion of the viewer.
“Whatever meaning you give it after watching the video is correct. The viewer creates the meaning. I have only created a gun that shoots emojis and tested it on myself,” he tells Fast Company.