Asklemmy

We've come a long way from cave drawings and hieroglyphics. We've developed languages capable of expressing tiny details in amazing clarity; succinctly, pointedly, and without confusion as to their meaning.

And yet there is a whole new wave of people unable to use those languages correctly or even rudimentarily who drag civilization backwards by returning to hieroglyphics.

I'm almost of the opinion we've reached "peak human" and are now backsliding. Yes, of course it's self inflicted - how else could we as a species do an 'about face' and head back to cave dwelling? However it happens and whomever is responsible, here we are... and we're losing ground fast.

And things like emojis are leading the charge.

i use text ones like ^_^ and :3

but i also love blobcats

and blobfoxes too!

Text emojis are fine with me, but I personally don't like yellow spots on my clean black and white screen

Reject emoji, embrace reaction images.

My Keyboard don't have emoji on android and on desktop I use Linux(Too Lazy to install a plugin or extension for my DE) :)

Women tend to use emojis more, so redditors and by extension lemmitors hate emojis

In moderation they're totally fine, but for me personally it's just faster to type up an emoticon by hand than it is to search through tons of emojis or even use alt codes on Windows.

I love emoji, the haters will have to pry them from my cold dead hands 😤

😺

I've never noticed this to be honest, and I'm a heavy, heavy emoji user. Though I prefer the old-fashioned emoji's. I'd love to use ^_^ more, but the constant backslashes make my pinky hurt :)

Anyway, I like using emoji's because I'm a happy person and want to share a friendly smile :)

I've never noticed anyone here hating on them.

But then again I'm on kbin and it doesn't federate downvotes, so the only downvotes we see are the ones by other kbin people.

😔