The "pushpin emoji detour meme," which evolved from the "distance meme," is demonstrating just how often we avoid the simple solution to our habits.

Whenever someone uses a teeny, tiny pushpin emoji, I usually expect to see their current location beside it. However, people on Twitter have been utilizing the red symbol for a reason you'd never ...

Written out, it might sound like this: (Thing No. 1) avoids (Action No. 1) to get to (Action No. 2). Our own Nick Schwartz explained it this way in a For The Win slack chat: “You’re bypassing ...

If you pin a friends' chat to the top of your feed, the pushpin emoji appears. You can pin individual users or group conversations. Most use this emoji to keep track of their most important ...

Pushpin Emoji. Everyone assumes that you have to use the gun or the knife emoji to indicate a threat, but the pushpin is much subtler and therefore much cleverer.

People are now simply using a handshake emoji to ... a so-called “distance meme” employed the use of three ruler emojis and two red pushpin emojis as a way for people to poke fun of ...