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I don't understand what either of those are trying to emote.
Sarcasm vs curiosity
How tf do you derive sarcasm from the first one?
Eye-rolling is commonly associated with sarcasm (and other forms of derision, but in the context sarcasm makes the most sense)
I'm sincerely wondering if some of the emoji hate is people with ASD or something similar not getting common facial expression associations beyond things like smile = happy
I wouldn't be surprised. If you're wondering, yes I'm on the spectrum. But I've also never seen eye-rolling used for sarcasm. It's so much more obvious to make a statement sound insane or to use /s.
Also, would most of the world even interpret that emoji as "eye rolling?"
Eye rolling is definitely a culturally-specific thing with the anglosphere, but the emoji is literally called "eye-roll" and does read visually as being that to someone familiar with the gesture.
The added nuance here is that eye-rolling is an expression of derision and not just sarcasm, while culturally /s is used for being facetious (think friendly sarcasm) as well as actual sarcasm.
You only interpret '\s' as sarcasm because of html and sarcasm beginning with the letter 's'. If you don't think pictorial eye-rolling 'looks' like sarcasm, just consider it almost like hieroglyphs.
Where the hell did you get HTML from? /s is a tag literally made to denote that a given text is sarcastic. It's one of the few good things to come out of Twitter.
...that is much older than Twitter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator
Dang, was it at least popularized on Twitter? I haven't seen /blah anywhere until 2018.
If anything, I would guess probably reddit since it kind of evolved from the early forums where it came from. Twitter has (had?) a much larger userbase though, so that's not a bad guess either. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Which is which?
The eye rolling is a sarcasm indicator, the monocle indicates curiosity.
Bro do you autist
Vroom vroom
Yes brk I autist ๐๐๐๐
Using autist as an insult. Stay classy, Lemmy.
Seems like you autist