Teddy is ten years old and, despite his young age, knows exactly how he wants to be treated. The little glasses wearer does not shy away from confrontation with billion-dollar companies. He launched a high-profile campaign against Apple’s “nerd” smiley. “Glasses wearers are not nerds!”, he says confidently.
Teddy, from Oxfordshire, has launched a petition calling on mega-company Apple to change its ‘offensive and insulting’ glasses emoji. His teacher helped him with his project. “I love his curious mind and the fact that he fights for what he believes in,” she says proudly of her student.
“Makes me sad and angry!”
Apple would make people think that ‘glass wearers are nerds’. It was “absolutely horrible,” the boy told the BBC. “It makes me sad and angry, and if I find it offensive, thousands of people around the world will find it offensive too,” said the confident 10-year-old.
Teddy has dubbed his own version of the symbol – often colloquially known as the nerd emoji – the genius emoji and hopes the tech company will adopt it. “It has thin lenses and thin frames… and a little smiley face instead of those horrible buck teeth,” he explains.
Teddy is now hoping for feedback from Apple and hopes that his idea will be adopted. That would be “a great feeling and I would be happy with it.”
Source: Krone
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