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I'm a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you'll get an idea of the face I'm making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes..

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[โ€“] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't hate all emojis. I do hate how the vast majority of people use them.

Back when I used Skype, I freaking loved all of them because the animations made it very clear what someone is trying to express in an easy to understand way (assuming everyone in a given chat had a similar culture).

Discord is a not-so-close second. I like a decent chunk of the emojis because they are super expressive while being simple. More importantly, custom emojis allow for incredibly unique ways of expressing ideas that only a small group will understand. It's perfect for inside jokes.

In general, though? Emojis are so freaking bland and inoffensive. 90% of the time that they're used, there's literally 0 reason for them to be used. I don't need a page full of pregnant people and 16 variations of a family because it's nowhere near as effective as saying "I'm pregnant" or "I have 3 siblings." Whoever makes Unicode/these emojis is so hell-bent on inclusivity that they often ignore what makes human inclusivity so important: personality.

As for the people that use them on the daily? The vast majority seem like a hivemind. On YouTube you will literally find pages of "bro [insert incredibly basic observation] ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ˜ญ" in a single comment section. It's one thing if it were a reference to something insane or unhinged like a copypasta, but it's another when it's a subconscious "can I copy your homework" over and over again. People overuse emojis in the same way that people type out "lmao" with a straight face in response to a meme. They're used out of laziness so often that they're becoming filler speech.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Too Zoomer like ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Noticed this already, not so much downvoting, but that people here don't use emojis. Just a weird subculture norm I guess.
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[โ€“] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Emojis are fine here. Maybe you just have opinions that don't align with those of other users with whom you've interacted.

[โ€“] Gabu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are fewer "normies" using Lemmy, so you get less "normie behavior".

[โ€“] toototabon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why are emojis normie behavior? ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘„๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

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