Teddy Cottel was angry at Apple's emoji depicting someone wearing glasses with their front teeth sticking out Getty A 10-year-old boy in England is taking on Apple over its "nerd" emoji.

Nerd emoji memes feature different iterations of the specific emoji 🤓, which wears glasses and sports prominent front teeth. The emoji is used when someone gets into a technically nerdy ...

In a bid to promote inclusivity and challenge stereotypes, 10-year-old Teddy from England, has initiated a campaign urging Apple to redesign its “nerd face” emoji. Teddy, a proud glasses ...

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 ...

"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." ...

“I like wearing glasses because they make me see a lot better, and they look good and stylish," he said. As of Thursday night, Teddy’s “No Nerd Emoji” petition had garnered more than 600 ...

Cottle’s problem is that nerd emoji is allegedly demeaning to people like him who wear glasses. “I hate the teeth at the bottom (of the emoji) and the name,” he told the BBC in a video ...

A schoolgirl who got Disney to create a princess with glasses in their hit animated feature Encanto has set her sights on challenging the stigma of the nerd face emoji. Lowri Moore, 13 ...

gives the wrong impression of people who wear glasses. Teddy has called his own revamp of the symbol - which is often colloquially referred to as the nerd emoji - as the genius emoji, and hopes ...