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 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 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.
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 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 π . And being on Discord, there are also many custom emotes like :KEKW: I frequently use.
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 π
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.
The whole joke plays into a terminally horny me-me emoji copypasta that people liked to crank out a few years ago - making it βmoldyβ! The point is the emojis! Hereβs one for dickmas that takes it to 11:
I still donβt 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 itβs likeβ¦ 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? Thatβs just nonsense.
(I know Iβm responding to a copypasta. Itβs just on the topic.)
Donβt get too hung up on emojis, theyβre just a new form of text! Most people I know use them ironically or to respond to coworkers that you donβt 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 youβve got purposely tacky and over the top copypastas! Like this one (personally, not enough emoji for me):
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FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social · 131 pts · 2y
I'm just gonna come out and say it: Emojis have gone too far.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 168 pts · 2y
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ππΏππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»ππ»ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»thisππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»ππ»ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
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Assman@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 2y
What's this jaundice erasure
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
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roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 2y
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.
ZMonster@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
ππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏππΏ
ππΏππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»ππ»ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»^this^ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππ»ππ»ππ»ππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππΎππΏ
ππΏππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΎππΏ
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How bout this? Sync doesn't support subscript so I'm not sure how this looks.
Opened in browser, superscript looks better, still jacked in sync tho.
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
It just put ~s on either side so it bulges more. I appreciate the effort though.
Yeah, that looks good in browser. I guess jerboa doesn't support subscript either.
ZMonster@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Yeah, that's what it did on sync. But it looks legit in FF.
Magnetar@feddit.de · 26 pts · 2y
White hands in the center and black hands expelled to the fringes, what are you trying to say?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 5 pts · 2y
Uh oh, op EXPOSED!
tweeks@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
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.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y
beutifull
De_Narm@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 2y
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.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 2y
I'm a zoomer and I also thoroughly dislike emojis in most situations. Emoticons feel so much more personal c:
glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 2y
:3
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y
:3
Gabu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
UwU what's this?
taiyang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
That's the spirit! :)
lugal@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y
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
Korne127@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
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.
De_Narm@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.
Korne127@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I guess it depends on how you define old and very old.
guywithoutaname@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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.
poppy@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
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.
Korne127@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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 π . And being on Discord, there are also many custom emotes like :KEKW: I frequently use.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
I'll go on a limb and guess you're German?
Korne127@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Das kekw hat dich primΓ€r verraten, aber die anderen Smileys werden so gut wie nur von Deutschen benutzt. :D
lugal@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
π
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 2y
All y'allπ₯ gotta chillπ₯ΆβοΈout on this emoji hateπ‘π€ we πare πΎjustπhavingπ£οΈfunπππ¦π€ͺ
Etterra@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 2y
Nothing can save her from having an emoji whore mother though.
perspectiveshifting@sh.itjust.works · 64 pts · 2y
lol these comments making the lemmy user base look ooooold, and Iβm not that young haha
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Peak boomer activities
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 23 pts · 2y
Emoji hate is very much a millennial thing.
The childrens and the olds are wrong.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2y
Can confirm. Am millennial and I only use emojis ironically. And to acknowledge messages I don't want to actually respond to on Teams.
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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 π
frezik@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
The odd emoji at the end of a message is fine. It's embedding them throughout the text that makes it borderline unreadable.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Get off my yard!
CptEnder@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
You youngins already have everywhere else on the internet!
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Don't you guys have that facebook thing?
samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yuck, no thank you!
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
You're saying it like it's a bad thing
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
I mean, it is a bad thing when you can't relate to anything. We should strive for age diversity to account for this.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 2y
Well that was a left turn at Albuquerque
Clbull@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
modifier@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 2y
Even as a bit, that's just too many emoji.
Which is a shame because the joke doesn't need them to be funny
glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 63 pts · 2y
The whole joke plays into a terminally horny me-me emoji copypasta that people liked to crank out a few years ago - making it βmoldyβ! The point is the emojis! Hereβs one for dickmas that takes it to 11:
MERRYπ COCKMASπππππππππππ AND HAPPY π HOE-LIDAYS π²π²π²π©π©π© MERRYπ COCKMASπππππππππππ AND HAPPY π HOE-LIDAYS π²π²π²π©π©π© THIS YEAR π I'M DEFINITELY β ON THE πππNAUGHTYπππLISTππ BECAUSE I'M πA GIGANTIC π³βπππ³βπππ³βπππ³βπππβHO-HO-HOMOSEXUALβππ³βπππ³βπππ³βπππ³βππ WHICH IS NOT π ββοΈβ VERY CHRISTIAN βͺπ BUT I STILL CAN APPRECIATE π SAINT DICK β¨πβ¨π I CAN'T WAIT FOR π SANTAπ TO SLIDE DOWN MY CHIMNEY β¬π ππ¦ AND STUFF MY STOCKING π§¦ππ FULL OF DILDOS π±π AND PENIS PARAPHERNALIA πππππ¦π¦π¦ BECAUSE I'M JUST A LITTLE π€ FESTIVE ππ π€Άββπremovedπ³βπππ³βπππππππ©π©π©π¦π¦π¦
SO TO ALL MY πππππSLUTTY π©π©π©πππ SANTA'S π π πΏπ π½π π» LITTLE HELPERS πππππ& HORNY π©π CHRISTMAS ELVES οΏ½οΏ½π»ββοΈπ§π»ββοΈπ§π»ββοΈ REMEMBER LET IT "SNOW" π¨π¨π¨βββββββππππππ¦π¦π¦π¦ AND DON'T FORGET TO πβ¨πβ¨DECORATEβ¨πβ¨π YOUR "TREE" πππππππππππππ I'LL BE WAITING πππ UNDER THE MISTLETOE ππ¦Ά WRAPPED UP IN RIBBON π³πππ WAITING β± FOR YOU πTO UNWRAP π³π ME SO WE CAN TASTE π π¦ EACHOTHER'S CANDY CANES π¬β¨π¬β¨π¬β¨π©π©π©ππππ¦π¦π¦
DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 2y
I think I just came a little
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
I... I think my retina detached after trying to read this.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
I still donβt 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 itβs likeβ¦ 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? Thatβs just nonsense.
(I know Iβm responding to a copypasta. Itβs just on the topic.)
glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Donβt get too hung up on emojis, theyβre just a new form of text! Most people I know use them ironically or to respond to coworkers that you donβt 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 youβve got purposely tacky and over the top copypastas! Like this one (personally, not enough emoji for me):
OMG itβs ARB-WHORE DAY π²π΄π³ on this day π we celebrate MOMMY EARTH π©βπ§and plant trees π³ that will someday grow up to be BIG 𫦠and LONG π and HARD ππ©ππ for the good girls to CLIMB πββοΈ so plant a HO-ak tree π₯¦ a chestNUT π¦ an ASSpen π or a cottonWOOD πͺ΅π maybe ur a BIRCH BETCH π€ or a will-HO βοΈ so get DIRTY π§βπΎπ³ and get those lil sprouts π± all WET π πΏ so they can get πͺ¨ BIG and STRONG πͺπ€€ cuz today all of the arb-WHORES π΅are gonna get a TREEat πͺ΄ planted in their πASS today ππ cuz MOMMY EARTH π© is CUMMING 4 U π send β‘οΈ this to ur 1οΈβ£0οΈβ£ DIRTIEST ARB-WHORES π if u get 0οΈβ£ back then ur a weeping willHO πππ if u get 5οΈβ£ back ur a SICKamore SKANK ππ β &&& if u get 1οΈβ£0οΈβ£ back then ur a gonna get a special π© walNUT just 4 u πππ
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2y
summerof69@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
The joke doesn't need your snobbery either.
modifier@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Well I certainly apologize to you for any pain I've caused and I will make sure to smooth things over with the joke too.