Overview

• Teddy, a 10-year-old boy from Oxfordshire, has started a petition to change the 'nerd' emoji on Apple's keyboard, which he finds offensive.
• With the help of his teacher, Lisa Baillie, Teddy has launched his campaign online and around his school, gathering over 100 signatures so far.
• Teddy's issue with the 'nerd' emoji is that it pairs glasses with protruding front teeth, which he feels misrepresents people who wear glasses.
• Teddy has proposed a new design for the emoji, which he calls the 'genius emoji', featuring a smiley face with thin-framed glasses and no protruding teeth.
• Apple, while not in charge of adopting emojis, does determine how they are displayed and could potentially make changes to the 'nerd' emoji.