"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." ...

A UK schoolboy is asking Apple to fix and rename what he says is its offensive and insulting "nerd face ... to know that it's actually the Unicode consortium that rules on emoji — but you ...

Apple’s nerd face emoji could undergo a major redesign—that is, if an English schoolboy gets his way. According to the BBC, 10-year-old Teddy Cottlel has launched a petition to change the ...

A schoolgirl whose dream came true when Disney created a heroine with glasses in a hit film has now set her sights on taking the spectacles off the ‘nerd-face’ emoji. When Lowri Moore, now 13 ...

But one boy claims that urgent changes are needed to one of the most popular emoji – the 'nerd'. Teddy Cottle ... He has always been like that, really interested in learning, and he watches ...

the nerd emoji and having emojis that aren’t representative of people wearing glasses just perpetuates the stigma. “It’s really important we encourage children and their parents of the ...

Read more below. Teddy Cottlel, from Oxfordshire, England, has issued a petition to Apple to change its ‘nerd’ emoji, which depicts a glasses-wearing grinning face with two front teeth ...

Boy, 10, calls on Apple to redesign the nerd emoji Unsplash/Denis Cherkashin, Apple (right) and Teddy Cottle's petition (left) In a bid to challenge stereotypes, a 10-year-old UK boy, Teddy Cottle ...