You'll also notice the same thing happens for other non-existent emojis that sound like they should exist: dragonflies, lemurs, possums, blackberries - even Claude 4.5 will start off by saying "Yes!" and then correcting itself. It will immediately give the right answer for very specific things that you wouldn't expect to get their own emojis though.
Which proves that the popular "Mandela effect" explanation is false. People just jump to plausible sounding explanations instead of saying: This might be it, but really I don't know.
