lol these comments making the lemmy user base look ooooold, and I’m not that young haha
Peak boomer activities
Emoji hate is very much a millennial thing.
The childrens and the olds are wrong.
Woah now hold on there just a second buddy ol’ pal, we millennials are all about emojis! We called them smileys and emoticons sure, for forums and MSN Messenger etc, but we were all over 'em!
Then text messaging and Facebook came along and didn’t support that stuff and we were sad, but now they’re back!
Except standard emojis suck, they’re better on stuff like Discord now where you can just upload whatever emotes you want and use them wherever, and they can animate too! Really feels like being back in the forum/MSN Messenger Plus! days 😁
The odd emoji at the end of a message is fine. It’s embedding them throughout the text that makes it borderline unreadable.
Can confirm. Am millennial and I only use emojis ironically. And to acknowledge messages I don’t want to actually respond to on Teams.
You’re saying it like it’s a bad thing
Yeah… tbh it’s the main thing I miss on Reddit. The userbase of Lemmy seems to be older and unrelatable to me. Also tbh the meme subs were wayyyyy more dank on Reddit.
You youngins already have everywhere else on the internet!
Don’t you guys have that facebook thing?
Yuck, no thank you!
Get off my yard!
I’m just gonna come out and say it: Emojis have gone too far.
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Do people actually use them like this? I’d assume its part of the joke, but then again I’m so old neither I nor my contacts use any emoji - we all “xD” and “:'D” each other like we did during the war I ought to tell you younglings about.
I think “I’m so old” doesn’t make the most sense as reasoning, considering that especially Boomers and old people are often famous for over-using emojis.
It depends. Not using emoji is certainly a trait most often found in old people, it’s just that very old people swing in the other direction.
I guess it depends on how you define old and very old.
It’s more of a missing middle. Boomers and some Gen x use emojis literally while Gen Z and some millennials use emojis ironically or humorously.
I think it’s those who didn’t grow up in the internet age and came here much later. What Gretchen McCulloch calles “Pre Internet People” in her book Because Internet. Meaning they grow up before internet and were introduced to it much later. Think of boomers who get their first smartphone because their son in law is afraid they get lost in the forest or something. You get the vibes.
So I think in this case it is part of the joke, making fun of older conservatives
I use :) and :D really much (the former extremely much, like really in every second sentence). :( also sometimes. But there are also quite some Emojis I often use, especially 😅. And being on Discord, there are also many custom emotes like :KEKW: I frequently use.
I’ll go on a limb and guess you’re German?
Yes. How did you know?
My English in that comment wasn’t very good, but I was really sleep deprived when I wrote it, sorry for that.Das kekw hat dich primär verraten, aber die anderen Smileys werden so gut wie nur von Deutschen benutzt. :D
My (very kind, sweet, wholesome) 70 year old boss at work uses a lot of emoji. Not to this extent, but more than one a text seems like a lot to me and he has used 4-5.
I’m a zoomer and I also thoroughly dislike emojis in most situations. Emoticons feel so much more personal c:
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UwU what’s this?
That’s the spirit! :)
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You’re missing the bottom row of dark hands. Please fix this before I spend all day thinking about it.
It also wouldn’t hurt to change the font size on “this” so the middle row doesn’t bulge out.
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It just put ~s on either side so it bulges more. I appreciate the effort though.
Yeah, that’s what it did on sync. But it looks legit in FF.
What’s this jaundice erasure
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White hands in the center and black hands expelled to the fringes, what are you trying to say?
Uh oh, op EXPOSED!
Or it’s the order of commands, looking at how the fingers point, in which case it’s the reverse of what you imply he’s trying to say.
All y’all👥 gotta chill🥶❄️out on this emoji hate😡😤 we 💑are 👾just💀having🗣️fun🍑🍆💦🤪
Even as a bit, that’s just too many emoji.
Which is a shame because the joke doesn’t need them to be funny
ever seen r/copypasta on Reddit? this is nothing
The joke doesn’t need your snobbery either.
The whole joke plays into a terminally horny me-me emoji copypasta that people liked to crank out a few years ago - making it “moldy”! The point is the emojis! Here’s one for dickmas that takes it to 11:
MERRY🎅COCKMAS🍆🍆🍆🍆😜😜😜🐓🐓🐓🐓 AND HAPPY 😁 HOE-LIDAYS 😲😲😲😩😩😩 MERRY🎅COCKMAS🍆🍆🍆🍆😜😜😜🐓🐓🐓🐓 AND HAPPY 😁 HOE-LIDAYS 😲😲😲😩😩😩 THIS YEAR 📆 I’M DEFINITELY ✅ ON THE 😈😈😈NAUGHTY😈😈😈LIST📜📝 BECAUSE I’M 👈A GIGANTIC 🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🎄❄HO-HO-HOMOSEXUAL❄🎄🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈 WHICH IS NOT 🙅♀️❌ VERY CHRISTIAN ⛪🙏 BUT I STILL CAN APPRECIATE 😜 SAINT DICK ✨🎉✨🎉 I CAN’T WAIT FOR 🎅SANTA🎅 TO SLIDE DOWN MY CHIMNEY ⬇🏠😜💦 AND STUFF MY STOCKING 🧦🎁😜 FULL OF DILDOS 😱🍆 AND PENIS PARAPHERNALIA 🍆🍆🍆🍆💦💦💦 BECAUSE I’M JUST A LITTLE 🤏 FESTIVE 🎄🎅🤶⛄❄🎁FAGGOT🏳🌈🌈🏳🌈🌈🍆🍆😜😜😩😩😩💦💦💦
SO TO ALL MY 💋👄💋👄💋SLUTTY 😩😩😩💋💋💋 SANTA’S 🎅🎅🏿🎅🏽🎅🏻 LITTLE HELPERS 😉😉😉👏👏& HORNY 😩😈 CHRISTMAS ELVES ��🏻♂️🧝🏻♂️🧝🏻♂️ REMEMBER LET IT “SNOW” 🌨🌨🌨❄❄❄❄⛄⛄⛄😜😜😜😜😜💦💦💦💦 AND DON’T FORGET TO 🌟✨🌟✨DECORATE✨🌟✨🌟 YOUR “TREE” 😜😜😜🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆 I’LL BE WAITING 🕚🕕🕠 UNDER THE MISTLETOE 🍃🦶 WRAPPED UP IN RIBBON 😳🎁🎀💝 WAITING ⏱ FOR YOU 👆TO UNWRAP 😳🎀 ME SO WE CAN TASTE 👅💦 EACHOTHER’S CANDY CANES 🍬✨🍬✨🍬✨😩😩😩🍆🍆🍆💦💦💦
I think I just came a little
I still don’t and probably never will understand why people use the same emoji more than once in a row.
Every other word is tacky and hard to read but I get it’s like… just a thing for people who grew up with emojis instead of little text emoticons. Or like older people trying to be a fellow kid kind of thing.
But the same one 5 times in a row? That’s just nonsense.
(I know I’m responding to a copypasta. It’s just on the topic.)
Don’t get too hung up on emojis, they’re just a new form of text! Most people I know use them ironically or to respond to coworkers that you don’t want to type text to.
As far as I remember, text filled with emojis was used by FB-era people to do like MLM (mid-level-marketing; pyramid schemes) ads. First time I saw it used not ironically.
Their text style was ripe for mocking since it was tacky af.
Some me-melords turnt it horny and usually a lil gay and you’ve got purposely tacky and over the top copypastas! Like this one (personally, not enough emoji for me):
OMG it’s ARB-WHORE DAY 🌲🌴🌳 on this day 📆 we celebrate MOMMY EARTH 👩👧and plant trees 🌳 that will someday grow up to be BIG 🫦 and LONG 📏 and HARD 👊😩😛😏 for the good girls to CLIMB 🙆♀️ so plant a HO-ak tree 🥦 a chestNUT 💦 an ASSpen 🍑 or a cottonWOOD 🪵🍆 maybe ur a BIRCH BETCH 🤭 or a will-HO ⁉️ so get DIRTY 🧑🌾😳 and get those lil sprouts 🌱 all WET 😌 🚿 so they can get 🪨 BIG and STRONG 💪🤤 cuz today all of the arb-WHORES 🌵are gonna get a TREEat 🪴 planted in their 💃ASS today 🌝🌚 cuz MOMMY EARTH 👩 is CUMMING 4 U 🌎 send ➡️ this to ur 1️⃣0️⃣ DIRTIEST ARB-WHORES 🍌 if u get 0️⃣ back then ur a weeping willHO 😭😭😭 if u get 5️⃣ back ur a SICKamore SKANK 💚😇 ✅ &&& if u get 1️⃣0️⃣ back then ur a gonna get a special 🔩 walNUT just 4 u 💋💋💋
THE UFOs👽☄👽 have finally CUM 💦👌😣👌 send this to 10 alien daddys😜😜😜 if you can’t wait🤚🤚 to get PROBED🍆🍑🍆 if you get none❌ back💀🙅💀 you a lonely galactic hoe😭😭 get 5 back❗ you a super star SLUT😜☄💥 get 10 back❗❗ you a super space freak💯👽💯 Happy fuckin💯👅 get that ALIEN 👽 COCK😍🍆😩👌
I… I think my retina detached after trying to read this.
Well that was a left turn at Albuquerque
Nothing can save her from having an emoji whore mother though.
