I have seen that GitHub added a gender icon on my profile

[sblantipodi]

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not a problem for me but why? 🙂 is it important to show an icon?
I mean, is this a useful info for people visiting my profile?
I have seen that not everyone has it, is this something I added by mistake? 😄

[sblantipodi]

that's weird I refreshed the page and the icon vanished O_o

[ghost]

it seems an irrelevant data but some may take it as a status or simply to give something to our github profiles so it doesn't look so empty.

[sblantipodi]

ok but how can I choose to hide/show that icon?

[Vikrez22]

click on the icon, an option will pop out for you to add or remove the icon

[LucaScorpion]

I believe that's supposed to be part of the preceding emoji, 🧙‍♂️ Emoji variants are done by multiple characters joined by a zero-width spacer (for gender, skin tone, etc). It might be that here something went wrong either while loading or dipslaying the emoji (might also be due to your local font not properly supporting it). Either way, it's not related to the pronouns that are specified on your profile, just a bug 😅

[GhostOf0days]

That's interesting to learn how they're made. Thank you!

[ronakkothari123]

Yeah I think this is right!