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 ? 😭
I much prefer emoticons over emojis, but I couldn’t tell you why.
Nostalgia :'(
Because we’re the last of the old guard? I’m gen z, and honestly I still prefer emoticons, probably because I grew used to them before emoji
Older gen z and I remember sometime in my mid teens most chat apps started automatically converting emoticons into emojis. It bugged me to hell and back you either had to swap :) to =) or turn them back to front to avoid getting “emojified”
I’ve turned to adding a ZWSP (no width Unicode) between the : and ) parts of the character, that works pretty well. It’s a bit of a hassle, of course
does ü get converted
Nothing beats O.o and :/ for me
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because cute
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It might be an attention thing. With an emoji in a post your eyes are drawn towards the cute colorful picture before you l’ve read the content of the post. Emoticons on the other hand don’t stand out as much, but serve a similar purpose: punctuate a thought with an emotion (=
Personally, it’s because emojis are just tiny yellow dots on my phone’s screen.