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• kerthale@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.

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  • finickydesert@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you using the opendyslexic font?

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.

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    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Comic Sans?

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    • kerthale@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Often yes, though most sans serif fonts work well enough for me.

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like “fuck” need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.

  Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it’s “Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?”

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• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like

  *During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️‍🗨️ at 💑 *

  Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government

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• Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to 💩.

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, never understood it till now. 100% how my in monolog read it title.

    Do add to your point making all those movements while talking make you seem crazy.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive… but that might just be me *shrug*

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sooooo with you. Emoticons 4eva! The only good use for emoji is

    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠈⠉⠁⠢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⣀⣰⣤⣤⡠⠤⢀⢀⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠀⠊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠢⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡠⠐⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠢⠀ ⠈⠐⠂⠈⠁⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢇⠀⠀⠉⠉⢂⠀⠀⢸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣇⠄⠂⠈⠉⠉⠐⠂⢔⠉⠈⠉⠑⡀⢑⠤⢼ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⡀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠀⡸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⢘⠃⠁⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡘⠀⣠⠂⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡀⠀⠀⠈⠂⠤⠤⠔⠈⠍⠁⠌⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠡⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡎⠂⡀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠘⠢⠀⠀⠈⡄⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⢀⡇⠀⡄⠀⠑⡀⢀⠰⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢄⡈⠈⠇⠀⠀⠐⡁⠀⠈⡕⡂ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⡀⠀⢠⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢸⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⣠⠸⠀

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My keyboard doesn’t have enough Cs on it to properly express how thicc that is.

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    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aaaah sexy Flanders!

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  • GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, you hit the nail on the head for why emojis nag me, messages being monotone just makes it so much easier to parse.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*.

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• Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A single emoji at the end of a post never hurt anybody 🤫

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For real 😏

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ಠ_ಠ

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  • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Word 💀

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• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It feels immature and cringe but that’s probably only 'cause I’m “old”.

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  • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. Plus, emoji don’t really add a whole lot that words cannot, and interpreting them takes away valuable time from my schedule when I’m practicing yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤷

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  • emptyother@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And I thought it was us middle-aged (40+) and older who was the only one who still used them literally. Gotten the impression that younger generations invented non-obvious meanings that spread in trend waves, then stopped using emojis when it became too hard and social anxiety-inducing to keep track of the various interpretations of what a “slight smile” might possibly mean to the receiver. 🙂

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    • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I don’t care anymore. I just use a few smile emoji, and the facepalm one, because I never found a satisfactory emoticon for it.

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see it as a laugh track in american sitcoms, trying to force me to feel something that isn’t on the actor’s performance.

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• Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love them but that was a bit much. 🤨

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love them too 🙂

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love them too 🍆💦

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• 667@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤷🏽‍♂️

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I interpret someone using that many as an idiot

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  • zerozaku@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can confirm

    I use emojis when I want to convey that I’m trolling.

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      with gen a and z humor combined with your reply you get this:

      skibidi😎toilet🚽sigma😳male♂️ohio⚠️MLG⚗️9/11🗼🗼uwu🤭fortnite battlepass🤑mewing🤫 among us🏮

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• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what exactly have you seen people saying when they complain? when they do it like you did in the title, it’s just too busy for my eyes, I’ve been in Discord servers where the moderators ask people to remove most of the Emojis from their username because of how annoying it is (to them apparently. I find it a little obnoxious but not enough to care).

  I basically use them as tone indicators. like

  omg 😭 omg 🙄 omg 🖕 omg 💀 omg 🥵

  etc.

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  • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I find interesting is that in your examples I actually find the “omg” to be the redundant part.

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• zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One emoji is fine.

  Two if you want to underline your reaction.

  Three is the maximum allowed by the cringe police.

  After three according to the judgement of the Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale you belong to the Facebook boomer jail. Enjoy the nationalist/racist/sexist minion “memes”.

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People who put the clapping e.oji between every word should be taken to the guillotine.

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    • zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands 👏👏

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  • knightmare1147@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is my new emoji rulebook and I’m going to explain to it to others exactly like this.

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    • zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel honored \(^-^)/

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  • Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I have that song stuck in my head again.

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    • zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hehe, that was the plan all along ;)

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• EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because I’m a millennial who prefers emoticons.*

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  *Contrary to popular opinion, emoticons ≠ emoji. :) is an emoticon, while 🙂 is an emoji. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Lol.)

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  • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (╯°□°)╯︵ 🤸

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    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, I like that. xD

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YES, emoticons are so much better than emojis!

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    • Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re objectively not.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    by definition they should really be the same though or at least both qualifying as emoticons. emoji are more icons than emoticons are, and the translation from japanese is literally just picture letter/symbol

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    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I never said emoticons are icons.

      • Emoji are picture-like and each one is a single-glyph.

      • Emoticons are not picture-like but resemble letters or punctuation, and are typically composed of multiple glyphs to make a coherent whole.

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    • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🙅‍♀️

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have nothing to add but Cartman

    (((>.<)))

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• raptore39@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like emojis 😬

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• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because this isn’t a Spot The Dog book, and we don’t need little picture of all the nouns.

  On their own they’re ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they’re completely redundant.

  What good does it do to say “I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch”?

  I’ll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🍕

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a dick 😡

    What a dick 🤤

    Completely different meanings

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  • GlenRambo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Devil’s advocate. Helps ESL speakers and dyslexics. Probably bad for tts scream readers though.

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• h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, yall emoji hatin’ MF’ERs are gross.

  🤮

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  • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The emoji guy is giving Shrek a blowjob

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    • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🫢

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    • deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shreks’ moist pickle dick

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🤔

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It’s just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It’s mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren’t formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I’m more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.

  Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the “voice” may be missed.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like one or two at the end of the sentence to help relay tone. As seen in:

  OMG! HE’S DYING! 😂

  OMG! HE’S DYING! 😭

  Those are useful emojis.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The best part is when boomers can’t tell them apart. “Grandma died 😂”

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Especially if they also misuse acronyms.

      “Grandma died LOL 😂”

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing I really hate is when people use that clap emoji between every word to try to solidify what they’re saying.

  Doing that, or saying “full stop”, etc. doesn’t make me trust what you’re saying more. Explain why what you’re saying is correct. Use logic and sources.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    use that clap emoji

    If people are clapping between words like pre-schoolers singing about Bingo the dog, it’s not accidental. It’s a last resort to prevent our phones auto-correcting everything to the phrase “you dumb motherfucker”.

    I agree, though – ‘full stop’ is just jargon and useless like ‘literally’.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see emojis as text’s substitute for body language. Body language is supposed to supplement the spoken word. Emojis should supplement the paragraph.

  Trying to communicate with more emojis than text is akin to trying to communicate with more body language than spoken word.

  Ever try to say something but forget the word, and you try to convey the meaning with body lamguage instead? Overuse of emojis implies a similar lapse of thought.

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  • wiccan2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    👍

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re right, excess emoji usage is very Italian

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  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same as emoticons did, now with Unicode Consortium approval! 😁

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You just described the way I dance.

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• DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always found it annoying, can’t speak for the rest of the Fediverse.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your title is why.

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• UnfairUtan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re great! Obviously they can be annoying when overused (unless as a joke), but I would never want to go back to a world without emojis. 😌

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• GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 don’t even know. Even if you ask for clarification, there’s less than 50% chance they’ll respond at all, let alone provide a sincere, meaningful, and accurate answer.

  That’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 don’t typically care that much if people use them – for instance, to reinforce the meaning or intention of their message. But it’s mildly annoying when the emojis are a message all of their own and that person is trying to communicate with me.

  Additionally, there’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 someone’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 that’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. It’s useless drivel that mucks up the experience.

  And even to use your description as an example:

  I don’t understand at all how that emoji is necessary or even insightful. It seems completely contradictory to the “But seriously” at the start of the sentence, it doesn’t seem like anybody with any degree of reading comprehension would mistake what you’re saying as being something negative/nasty/mean/hurtful/etc so it’s like if I ended my sentence with “and I’m currently chewing gum”. Okay, nice to know I guess, but why would I need to be told that?

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their intentionally bland, unpleasant to look at, and it makes you look like you just got on to the internet for the first time in your life.

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• pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Emojis to me are like a strongly flavored seasoning. It’s only appropriate in specific contexts, and even in those contexts, just a pinch goes a long way. Too much and it can detract from the experience.

  Emojipasta is grossly overseasoned food. But that’s the point, obviously. It’s the emoji version of those white women on Tiktok who throw three pounds of ground beef wrapped around an entire block of cheese in a baking sheet full of milk and bake it in the oven for rage clicks.

  Me, personally, I usually don’t need emoji seasoning. I’m fine with it plain. Besides, most emojis to me have all the class of drowning your entire meal in ranch dressing. There are a very small handful of exceptions. But that’s just my lame opinion.

  And of the ones I do find theoretically useful, I’m always hesitant to use them, because emoji rendering is platform specific. They’re not quite like text, where the glyphs are entirely utilitarian and typeface it’s written in conveys little to no information. But with emojis, the subleties pile up. A thinking emoji rendered on a Windows PC isn’t quite the same as a thinking emoji on an iPhone, or various kinds of Android phones. Unless I’m on a platform like Twitter or Discord that forces all clients to use a single emoji set, I can never confidently send a precise emotion with an emoji.

  Platforms like Discord that let you create your own emojis instead of using the comparatively sterile, corporate-approved, general purpose set provided in standard Unicode is another story. I like those and use them extensively. If Lemmy natively supported a Discord-esque system where instances or communities could define custom emojis that didn’t rely on custom clients, plugins, or instance-specific rendering hacks, I’d use them all the time. Though this would, I presume, be to the extreme chagrin of many.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Using them like the title here, I hate them too. You only need a few, and they should be conveying the same emotion that the text is being written as. 😮‍💨

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• Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Why! Do users! Dislike! The use! Of emojis! On Lemmy!?”

  Overused, they’re just so tiring too read. I think, if you’re gonna go that hard, just full send hieroglyphics and drop the text aspect.

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because being a contrarian is the height of personality for a lot of people here.

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