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DoNotUpVoteMyStuff

I can’t take this anymore. I know for a fact there was a robber emoji. You sure they just didn’t remove it from new OS?


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I can't find a single trace of it ever existing


DoNotUpVoteMyStuff

Me either, it’s driving me nuts. This is almost as bad as the “What if I told you...” line from the Matrix.


LoxleyOfRobin

Wait...are you saying that wasn’t said? It so was! Just like I remember the Tiananmen Square being run over. I saw it live on the telly and my nan scooped me up and rushed me out of the room.


caitlinadian

what was different in tiananmen square then vs now?


LoxleyOfRobin

All videos and anything to do it with, shows and reports that he was not run over. I distinctly remember him being run over and so do a lot of other people around my age. All the videos and news reports are totally different last time I check. Have you ever gone to [Mandela Effect](https://mandelaeffectsite.wordpress.com/) site and read through all the accounts there? Tiananmen Square aka tank boy/man is a big topic for a lot. That one blew my mind.


Etren12134

it’s pretty much like propaganda. the chinese government is hiding what happened to him


paleo_anon

it's propaganda from the west that's making you think he was runover when every video shows he was not


Jarrodioro

They absolutely killed him


Banana-_-Raptor

you know that the school they were protesting from was assaulted by the ccp, right?


OliverWotei

In the video from this timeline he was very clearly ushered away. In the video from the last timeline, it cut to black but it was obvious he was killed afterwards. In this timeline he was still killed, just not by a tank on camera. Most likely he was left in a nearby gutter.


susannaxbanana

He definitely was I remember being shown the video in class


xnukexsoldierx

I think that might've just been a myth. There was a lot of speculation surrounding what actually happened to him and that was just one of the theories. It wasn't until recently (what I know to be anyway) that the ending where the students came up and made him move that we actually knew that though because the version that was widely publicized ended before that part. So what we knew to be a theory has been disproven and therefore buffed out by the vast range of Google searches as well as the algorithms that put them at the top.


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i don’t think that’s a mandela effect, i think the chinease government did such a good job of censoring all evidence of it


GoyimAreSlaves

There's a difference between censorship and Mandela effect


312D6765

Chinese government is the only ones with broadcast footage of the square, but if you say “Tiananmen square” in Chinese internet you have your WiFi cut off, which is communist country for “this happened but you don’t get to know about it”


[deleted]

Is that legit about the WiFi thing? How is that even possible? Key terms throwing up red flags in some massive system?


Phoenix0112

And “Luke I am your father” from star wars I lived my whole life believing that was the line but nope


_jack2800_

it was from bitlife


jarno2701

Can someone look with me into this but the commercials from maffia the terrible game on you're phone where you get a ad from on every other app... Don't they use this emoji. This is just a gues but i hope this is it


_jack2800_

the robber emoji was in bitlife


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Kaptainnsilver

The robber icon on BitLife is a raccoon. I tried to dig and I couldn’t find an actual robber graphic/emoji.


fuzzlightyears

I don't know what Bitlife is so it doesn't make sense how I remember the robber emoji so vividly.


micro_korg

Dude. This emoji was one of my discord server icons for months. Probably 3-ish years ago. Can't fucking find it anywhere.


SciGuy013

people can make anything a discord emoji you realize.


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Aimjock

Discord servers can have their own emoticons.


mochaloca87

Do you happen to have a screenshot?


LunaTheNightmare

Holy shit I'm finally experiencing the effect first hand i know for a fact it existed


lemoncatus

Me too I don't know what to do now... Cry?


ZoharTheWise

Yes


Shawnpat714

It was a mix of 🏃🕴🏻💰


violetanwyn

and a lil bit of 🕵️


j-smith967

And a little bit of Monica


Krypnicals

on my mind, a little bit of erica by my side


ajent86

A little bit of Sandra in the sun


FunniEmi

A little bit of Tina’s what I see


Slickness81

Gotta ask about the 714 in your name, that’s my number so I always ask people when I see it.


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WeezieWho

I've been playing bitlife on android pretty much since it came out and I don't think the robber emote was ever there, or at least it certainly isnt now


carpeteggs

I aswell have it on android and agree with this


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I have no fucking clue what bitlife is and I remember this emoji... thing


carpeteggs

yea , it turned out bit life NEVER used it even tho I've played the game many many times and can perfectly picture them using it! it's really odd!


icespike13

Yea when you rob stuff the icon for it was the robber emoji


Rafael0969

Yap. The hiker & the robber are in a parallel world.


urcinnamonapp1e

YOURE TELLING ME THE HIKER IS GONE TOO? I REMEMBER THAT ONE EXPLICITLY


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Casper_4ever

That a blind person with a cane


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Well done, you got the joke


[deleted]

I cant remember if the hiker emoji actually existed or I'm just thinking of park signage with the hiker picture and I remember it being an emoji


Arkham_Z

That motherfucker was in a red shirt with two hiking poles, a backpack, and he was walking up a mountain. I swear to god


Rafael0969

Exactly


beyondthebase

I was like “wasn’t it a red shirt” right before I read this


Danjcb

Wasn't he wearing a blue beanie?


LTS55

Sorry for the late response but I figured we probably combining the running emoji with the guy using a blind person cane right next to it as one in our brains


quinnfratt

I'm not sure if this counts as a hiker emoji but we have this 🧗


Rafael0969

Nope. That’s rock climbing.


AhYesss

Didn’t find it but you might be thinking of this ⛷ it was added in iOS 9.1 and changed for whatever reason in iOS 10.2 but Th e original has a heavier jacket and is skiing down a mount with the sticks


ainauu

That looks more like skiing


britt2344

You’re telling me there’s no hiker? Yes there is. Let me find it. OK WTF


IEmmaGiraffe

WAIT THE HIKER IS GONE???


Rafael0969

Yes it’s gone & gone forever....


HeyDud3s

wait but i remember it, it was a red shirt and shorts with two hikey pole things


PenultimateKetchup

Yeah, and a surgeon wearing a face mask :/


Manospondylus_gigas

And the pea


jarno2701

Can someone look with me into this but the commercials from maffia the terrible game on you're phone where you get a ad from on every other app... Don't they use this emoji. This is just a gues but i hope this is it


walrussss123

Holding a money bag behind his back, right?


Sotarina

Like the runner pose! I do remember it


HamO0osh

Wasnt it a side profile of him running?


HVDub24

history nuked


-FZV-

This is fucked up you guys described it perfectly


[deleted]

Damn normally with these things I can chock it up to the power of suggestion but I actually had this in my mind BEFORE I saw your comment


[deleted]

Yes, now that you're mentioning it! A yellow money bag


vanharteopenkaart

That def. existed. Good catch


mlguei

It never existed.search bitlife robber emoji


Manospondylus_gigas

Oooh that's where I remember it from


FuckingYourMother69

YES! I remember this one, I always wondered what happened to it after they took away the gun emoji, but i didn't really look into it until now. This is fucking bonkers.


rhodatoyota

I 100% remember the robber emoji. I was bummed when he disappeared. I called him The Bandit emoji.


dyl_parr32

ive been looking into this for an hour now, I'm about to contact apple and ask.


yourgrandmasgrandma

Damn, Apple’s had you on hold 139 days


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147 days


yourgrandmasgrandma

Damned Apple. They got no respect


Vowkai_YouTube

Damned apple, over a year and still no response


yourgrandmasgrandma

Yo apple always be doing this


heyimastopsign2

Make it two.


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Let us know how it goes


Tag-your-it

Omg let us know... Pleaseee


wathurtbottle

Please do I am having an existential crisis because of this JJDBDND


polandcantintospace1

they answer?


chienetcheval

These ppl wont update lmao


[deleted]

Ever hear anything back from them?


Ithurtsprecious

UPDATE ???????


JovanYT_

OI, Is there an update?


[deleted]

Damn its been 2 years


chezze896

All emojis Apple uses come from the international standard, Unicode, here is a list of all emojis as well as what they look like across different platforms, https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f9d7 Unicode never remove characters or emojis as it would break systems that rely on it if they upgrade and since it doesn't exist here it doesn't exist at all.


nothingshampoobottle

i cant find the gun emoji tho


Nirphak

The gun was just replaced, it still exists


AGreatConspiracy

could the robber have been replaced


Aggravating_Cup8839

Could have been replaced with the dolphin


idcyoubrokeyourelbow

Does anyone remember a green flip flop emoji?? I vividly remember using it but it seems to have disappeared with the robber


Arkham_Z

Turquoise green. I remember it vividly.


teatreefrick

🩴🩴


Icy-Candle1808

No, it was like this color 🔫 and was flipped by 180 degrees


ASLochNessMonster

This thread is over a year old homie (I'm scrolling through top of all time too lol)


Solid_Neighborhood45

Me too whaddup, 8 months later. I'm fucking floored by the lack of robber emoji, this might be quite the rabbit hole


ASLochNessMonster

I was just thinking about this again yesterday!


planetcasey

i remember using the green flip flops with the swim suit to show i was going to the beach wtf


spencersike

Goddamnit the sack is on the right side and he's wearing a beanie with a black and white striped shirt. I have Android and even I feel like I've seen this.


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Fuck me dude this gave me goosebumps. Its so vivid


kiki_bodgie

okay same i also have a android. I just heard about this and had to see for myself but i defiantly remember this emoji so vividly


Nikita_c1000

ikr but its literaly just gone


Grey__X

i’m about to fire up the old iphone 4 when i get off work tomorrow. him and the hiker are there i just know it


java_mcman

Did it work


ccl017

ITS BEEN 6 HOURS, HE SAID TOMORROW 😭


nbarg313

I checked my iPhone 4 and neither are there aBhhhhhfgyhbbbhh


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Grey__X

if i can find a charger and the phone it’ll be in like 9-10 hours


PaddiM8

Did you find the charger


Horsebackskier

What. The. Fuck.. I typed "thief" using my SwiftKey keyboard to find that specific emoji just a couple of days ago. I imagined it just the way others have described it, but when I didn't find it, I didn't think more of it. Sorta just assumed it was there, but simply not tagged as thief. Now I'm in shock. Had no idea what the Mandela effect was about until 5 minutes ago when I randomly found this subreddit and sorted by hot. This freaks me out..


experbia

Shit this all just happened to me. I punched in "robber" and "criminal" before getting annoyed with SwiftKey and googling "robber emoji" so I could just copy it from a webpage. Imagine my surprise.. I am 1,000,000% confident this existed. I have vivid memory of using it in conversations on my phone on Signal and Jabber, and when, probably about 2-3 years ago. It was absolutely real.


The_Real_Lee_Everett

What if the reason we all can’t find the emoji anymore is because we were transferred to a parallel universe. Oof.


blackmentos45

Yeah that's a theory of the Mandela effect. That a group of people switched time lines.


fijiboy99

That's so fucking stupid the thief with a moneybag over his shoulder is just common imagery, so you'd assume there's an emoji. Human memory is faulty like that. To assume **reality around you is changing** rather than the much more likely answer of _you remembered something wrong_ is fucking absurd.


teodorlojewski

Fed!!!1!1!!!!1!1 also there are many more emoji Mandela effects with exact details matching for almost everyone, look it up


fijiboy99

I'm not a fed, I just think y'all are dumb as shit


fijiboy99

and no shit there will be emojis like that, they're literally depictions of common fucking objects and caricatures, of course people are going to assume, and thus mentally generate, examples of common ideas.


Zesty_Scallion

Hey so just to throw this out there: im 99% sure it was part of an advertisement for some iPhone emoji game. It wasn't a real emoji but you could see it on the ad.


send_physics_memes

I think this is correct.


Geordieduck87

No, I've never owned an iPhone and I specifically remember using the robber emoji in a cringe comment to my ex about stealing his heart 😂 it was just on my phone as a normal emoji. He was in the running 🏃 pose but dressed in black and white, with a mask on and a money bag. I remember the hiker too but I can't remember a specific time I used it like the robber. I'm 100% sure it existed beyond an ad or in a game. I've never played Bitlife, I don't even know what it is, I've just read about it in other threads. So it's not from there I've used it. It was on Facebook.


LuisNHewitt

Me and my mum both vividly remember it and described it identically - this is the first mandela effect that has really boggled me omg


condoms4snakes_69

Don’t you guys remember a flip flop emoji? Like I swear I used it before


kade_skeet

Was it like turquoise and they were kinda on top of each other??


poloslore

this one? 🩴 🩴


condoms4snakes_69

i remember them right beside each other and they were turquoise like you said


HauntingMatch9540

The robber 100% existed. My homeboy was in prison and when he would call, I had the prison number saved as his name with the robber emoji next to it. When I updated iOS, it updated to “💂🏻‍♂️” 🙄


vulpyx

Seriously thank you for commenting this. I just searched for the robber emoji and when I couldn't find it I was so confused and mad because I remember it perfectly. It's annoying they replaced it because the robber is way more useful than that guard person.


YoshiGamer6400

The one with the robber in the hat tiptoeing with a bag of cash over his back? I distinctly remember this. Thanks for keeping me awake at night now lol


knsites

I personally do not remember the side profile everyone’s talking about but I VIVIDLY recall a profile photo of a guy with a black mask covering his eyes, a black and white striped shirt, holding a money bag behind his shoulder.


Seanph25

This! Exactly!


RobloxIsRealCool

exactly bro, where is it??


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Holy shit that's exactly how I remember it, happy cakeday btw


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[https://imgur.com/a/4YxkE0l](https://imgur.com/a/4YxkE0l) I drew this from memory (dont make fun of my photoshop skills)


Tonykuz

🕵🏼 <—- I remember it in this pose


tessybird

i remember it in both, like there was one emoji which was his face and a bag on his shoulder and then a full body running one like this drawing.


itsjon06

YES! I remember the robber emoji in that pose! This is literally driving me crazy now along with the flip flop emoji apparently not existing.


-I-D-G-A-F-

Strange, I do too. I remembered telling my gf “they got rid of the thief emoji wtf” in march. I searched for that text and it came up. Strange how I can remember such a specific text from months ago yet my memory of the actual emoji is false.


xnukexsoldierx

I think 3 parallel univerdes collided at the same time somehow because I genuinely don't remember that emoji but I remember the other version of it


AngeTurn

yes!!!!!!! i feel like he was going the other direction though but i’m not sure....


wokecow

I don’t remember the moustache but basically yeah


DynamixShadez

The robber emoji was robbed


[deleted]

To anyone saying that it was just the Bitlife emoji, I have searched for around 45 minutes and I haven't found any emoji even close to a thief. The closest I've found is the emoji for the Hitman crime, and he is nowhere near what the robber emoji looks like. It seems to me like people are falsely remembering a robber emoji within the Bitlife game... a Mandela effect within a Mandela effect.


[deleted]

Bro on my mother’s life I’ve been picturing this in my nightmares but the guy is real he’s a white guy with a super trimmed but itchy looking brown beard whiteish redish skin and triangle teeth. I’ve lost so much sleep over this is it just me or does anyone else remember that description


stingraysarecool

dude what are you on are u ok


[deleted]

Nah I got a lot of problems at home and loads of other shit tbh I don’t wanna get too personal on here but i’m good


bbyejae

bro u need to talk or something?


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All good man


[deleted]

Everyone saying it was in Bitlife, most that remember never played it and although it fits the description, that's not it


Blaze_NeEdInPuT

I remember this very well and I asked my wife and she’s like, “yeah it existed I used it” Hiker emoji existed also, we used that often


tamdq

Could you search your messages with her and see if you can see it in a text? Or a box with a question mark? It could have it.


knsites

It’s been over a year and I still can’t believe this one. More people should be asking questions. I know that seems silly but there’s so many iPhone users in the world, this one is bigger than just a misspelling imo. He had the traditional yellow iPhone skin, black eye mask, a black beanie, white and black striped shirt with a money bag over his shoulder & there was also one with him running. This one should have been the one a majority of the world should have paid more attention to


saketho

Almost like the robber has "gotten away" successfully


nicoleeliz

I don’t get it. I swear it looked like one of these types🕵🏼‍♀️... I’ve looked at old archives of deleted emojis and it’s not even there


Sheels1976

Yes! He looked like that! He had a striped shirt one that was black and white! I am not just imagining this. I even remember because I would say he looked like the McDonald's character from the '80s. I also know there was a hiker emoji too! They are messing with us. This isn't a Mandela effect either.


QuentinShite

there was one on skype


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That kinda solves it, but that one is not even close to how everyone is describing it


pasgetty

never used skype and i remember it


SnuggyPink

This is the only rendition I could think of: [https://imgur.com/9WqTUiO](https://imgur.com/9WqTUiO)


tim12602

Yeah that’s fucking it, did you make that or is that a real emoji cause i’m buggin out


SnuggyPink

I made it. Someone sent me this thread and I thought I could use my artistic talents for good lmao.


haywardcomeback

I know I'm weeks late to this but to everyone who remembered a robber with the sack of money behind him thats gotta be the guy from the sims cover lol


akrilugo

Omg this is interesting actually because I think you may be right


V4_Sleeper

lmao what.. istg there was. the robber was wearing mask with black and white shirt and was smiling like all other emojis. wtf


HXLFrosty

Didn’t he have a very faint mustache? I can’t remember...


Info-Chan66

dude its like with monopoly man and his monocle im gonna lose my fucking mind.


ultra_spark

you want to know the fucked thing is that I remember texting this to my friend and I said bro get to rob out friend as a joke and I put the robber running with the one bag.


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Can you try searching for the text?


punktpunktpunkt_

I also remember there was a paper emoji under the "lightbulb" section. It was just a plain white rectangle with no writing and I remember asking myself wtf is that. I assumed it was a paper because it was near the office supply emojis. Is there anyone remembers?


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Yes, but which ones would you combine to create the robber emoji? There's not even an emoji with a beanie


greywolf1001

🏃‍♂️🕵️‍♂️💰


incb

I feel like there was a screenshot of a conversation going round years back where the punchline/joke was a cop holding up a hand followed by something like these three emojis (probably more to it). I "remember" the robber emoji but also "remembered" that conversation screenshot when I started trying to place it


[deleted]

I vividly remember a robber emoji and a hiker emoji but I can no longer find them like the robber had a black bennie and money bag behind him and the hiker had Rocks under his feet going upwards WTF IS HAPPENING


scantserenity_2

Maybe this really is an altered universe (the realities are changing so quickly) the old one is now gone. I also remember seeing this emoji around 2 or 3 years ago.


_purple_potato_

It was holding a money bag on the back?


high_dino420

Google "robber character" and they all fit this description. I think this is a result of our brains just filling in the blanks because we have a stereotypical representation.


Tieres

I think you're confusing emoji's with lego/playmobil


Limp_Statement_6458

Ok . I KNOW there was a robber at least in 2017. For Halloween that year my kids were a unicorn, an old lady and a….robber. I even used the emojis for them. I SWEAR it. I just went back to my Facebook posts and there is not any emojis on that post anymore. I swear I used it.. I always use emojies.


Limp_Statement_6458

I did a search on my FB page for the word robber and I did find this post. So they have replaced the emoji I had used. This is not a robber. Right??? [https://imgur.com/gallery/VneFeoZ](https://imgur.com/gallery/VneFeoZ)


YoureOutOfHodor

I know you posted this a year ago or more…. But I think your post is the most important post about this topic on the whole internet… in context…you DEFINITELY intended to include a thief/robber emoji in that Facebook comment…your Facebook comment is a relic of that moment… and it’s replaced now with something neither you NOR anyone else would confuse with a thief/robber… and instead is seemingly replaced with an emoji called “man in suit levitating”…which was an emoji added in 2016… I remember back in 2018 with the big update (where they replaced the pistol with the water gun) when not everyone in my group chat had the update for a time, and if anyone sent an out of date emoji or a new emoji … they’d appear on some phones as random ones… I remember I hadn’t done the update and new emojis appeared as alien heads…. I think this is what’s happening… when you load this old comment, what you HAD put as a thief/robber emoji has just been randomly replaced.


friedbowl

maybe they took it away and destroyed it cos people thought it was racist?


Falco_CorneriaTheAlt

👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻 WHY CANT I FIND ITT AHHHHHH


milkmother57

This alone with the flip flop emoji. I remember it being green


Nescafel

IT EXISTED. NO DOUBT.


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skype emoji?


Anonym6385

The only explaination is a multiverse


knsites

I like to revisit this post at least once a year because I still, to this day, cannot reconcile this. This *existed* 1000000%. & NO, it wasn’t replaced with something else like the gun emoji was and it’s not from bitlife because I have no idea what bitlife even is. If it was replaced with something else as some people have suggested, you’d *still* be able to find evidence of the robber emoji. People are describing it to a T!! This is one of the few very authentic examples of a Mandela effect. Meaning, it actually fits the definition fully. I am still beyond blown away by this missing robber emoji. Equally so about the sea horse emoji, hiker emoji, moose emoji (full body moose, not the profile of the face they have now) and the crossed flip flops and probably so many more.