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I find this really funny. I used reddit for about a decade, and I remember redditors absolutely hating emojis. Reddit really changed, in the time I used it and rarely did it change for the better.
I also remember a lot of hate for emojis on Reddit. Or maybe it's just the communities I frequented. But, most of the hate I saw linked them to Twitter and a dumbing down of discourse. I have the same sort of reaction to them, but I also recognize that they are becoming normalized in discourse and I really shouldn't have such a negative reaction. Some day, we'll probably have some make their way into formalized English and you would be considered weird, archaic and backwards for not using them. Consider how we now see the use of the words "thee" and "thou". Those used to be normal, but people got lazy and just started using "you" everywhere, despite it being the "wrong" usage. Now, it's just normal.
I hated when they started allowing animated gifs in the comments.
"You" isn't lazy usage of "thou", they're both modern representations of "ΓΎou", the old spelling which changed to accommodate printing technology. "You" uses one fewer letter, so it became the preferred spelling.
The normies took over.
Says a guy with a profile picture.
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My eyes!
Come to say the same thing. I guess it's mostly old grouchy people like us that moved on to the Feddiverse lol
When the Redditpocalypse started and we all came this way, someone made a post about this very thing. I still stand by my statement that day (which I paraphrase):
I don't care about emoji's enough to whine until it's excessive. Reddit's insistence that one "π" is the end of the world was pants-on-head-stupid. Use emoji's all you fuckin' want, but if you start putting 3+ in 1 comment I'm going to prep a straight jacket for the person.
Since the app basically. Influx of younger and mostly mobile users really changed the platform
I didn't really use Reddit until 2020. People hated emojis there the 3 years I was around. I don't think the majority opinion on that changed
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