Homophobic straight boys can't deal with Twitter's new 'hearts' update

Twitter just rolled out what initially seemed like a frivolous and minor change, replacing its ‘favourites’ with ‘likes’, and swapping the traditional star icon for a hearts.

In a blog explaining the change, product manager Akarshan Kumar wrote: “The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones. The heart is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people. And in our tests, we found that people loved it.”

As it turns out however, various users suffering from a serious case of fragile masculinity are accusing the update for being, like, totally gay.

Twitter is making me feel so gay with these hearts. I'm just trying to tell my homies they are funny not ask them to be my valentine.

— Matthew Jerson (@mjerson0311) November 3, 2015

https://twitter.com/CantBeLocal/status/661628936153993216/

https://twitter.com/alexrileyiscool/status/661562061994901504

They changed favs to hearts ? Wtf is this nonsense ? I blame gay rights

— His Excellency Burner Acct (@VsopVic) November 3, 2015

https://twitter.com/TheBlanquito/status/661601210475126784/

https://twitter.com/FoolishWiseGuy/status/661575306768158721/

Twitter is officially gay af
thnx hearts

— kamo (@_kxmo) November 3, 2015

Thankfully, there are still some users with common sense.

https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/661593675626082304/

Y'all really homophobic over a Heart instead of a Star?

If you thinking clicking a heart makes you gay .. Twitter the least of your worries

— Uncle J.R. 🇩🇲🇵🇸 (@HarlemGetsMoney) November 3, 2015

Twitter: changing hearts, but perhaps not minds…

Homophobic straight boys can’t deal with Twitter’s new ‘hearts’ update

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