Comment on Why šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø do users šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» dislike šŸ‘Ž the use āœ… of emojis šŸ˜€ on Lemmy šŸ­?

GooberEar@lemmy.wtf āØ2ā© āØmonthsā© ago

Imagine if every language in the world used the exact same alphabet, exact same words with the exact same spelling, and exact same sentences but the meaning of those words/sentences varied from person to person, region to region, in different contexts, and sometimes changed day to day. Then on top of that, the words even rendered differently from device to device.

Additionally, there was no way to look up what those words meant to the person writing them, who you donā€™t even know. Even if you ask for clarification, thereā€™s less than 50% chance theyā€™ll respond at all, let alone provide a sincere, meaningful, and accurate answer.

Thatā€™s what emojis are like to me. Sure, some of these same complaints apply to text-based communication as well, but emojis take it to the extreme.

I donā€™t typically care that much if people use them ā€“ for instance, to reinforce the meaning or intention of their message. But itā€™s mildly annoying when the emojis are a message all of their own and that person is trying to communicate with me.

Additionally, thereā€™s an extremely high degree of correlation between people and messages that use a bunch of emojis and actual quality of the message/meaning being sent. In other words, if someoneā€™s using a lot of emojis to communicate, I can pretty much completely disregard anything they have to say because it almost certainly holds no value to me. And thatā€™s okay.

So maybe in a broader sense, comments/titles/descriptions with lots and lots of emojis is annoying similar to seeing advertisements at the top of my search results and interspersed in the front page posts. Itā€™s useless drivel that mucks up the experience.

And even to use your description as an example:

I donā€™t understand at all how that emoji is necessary or even insightful. It seems completely contradictory to the ā€œBut seriouslyā€ at the start of the sentence, it doesnā€™t seem like anybody with any degree of reading comprehension would mistake what youā€™re saying as being something negative/nasty/mean/hurtful/etc so itā€™s like if I ended my sentence with ā€œand Iā€™m currently chewing gumā€. Okay, nice to know I guess, but why would I need to be told that?

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