Apparently it is meant as an easter egg/announcement of the new stacked pull requests feature (https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/stacked-pul...), but with GitHub's gradual quality degradation and nothing denoting that in the tooltip it just looks like their icon font is malfunctioning.
Oh man. I just assumed this was unchecked Microslop.
It's funny when a brand doesn't realize how the public has started perceiving them and makes quite ironic choices that should have been caught well before they went to the public eye.
My train of thought was:
- LLMs way over-use emojis
- Replacing a standard icon with a look-alike emoji was probably an LLM mistake
- From a company that has been pushing sloppy AI hard.
- Must be Microslop!
They should have either used a custom picture that wouldn't be mistaken for slop, or they should have more clearly called out why they changed it. For me, even now that I know it is supposed to be an easter-egg, it just feel like slop.
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Apparently it is meant as an easter egg/announcement of the new stacked pull requests feature (https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/stacked-pul...), but with GitHub's gradual quality degradation and nothing denoting that in the tooltip it just looks like their icon font is malfunctioning.
Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests.
https://gh.io/stacks
Discussion:
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232
Relevant discussion https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/203497
my guess: their new-ish "PR stacks" feature?
edit: yes i bet it's https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-reques...
Oh man. I just assumed this was unchecked Microslop.
It's funny when a brand doesn't realize how the public has started perceiving them and makes quite ironic choices that should have been caught well before they went to the public eye.
My train of thought was:
They should have either used a custom picture that wouldn't be mistaken for slop, or they should have more clearly called out why they changed it. For me, even now that I know it is supposed to be an easter-egg, it just feel like slop.It changes per device cuz it is a emoji
I always thought it was a hamburger
I would also love to know
haha literally why is it a pancake
Yes
hungry for pancakes now
so cute