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 ? 😭
Or maybe I can be creative:
“So, What’s the big deal 😒🙄?”
Vs
“So, What’s the big deal 🧐?”
I don’t understand what either of those are trying to emote.
Sarcasm vs curiosity
How tf do you derive sarcasm from the first one?
Eye-rolling is commonly associated with sarcasm (and other forms of derision, but in the context sarcasm makes the most sense)
I’m sincerely wondering if some of the emoji hate is people with ASD or something similar not getting common facial expression associations beyond things like smile = happy
I wouldn’t be surprised. If you’re wondering, yes I’m on the spectrum. But I’ve also never seen eye-rolling used for sarcasm. It’s so much more obvious to make a statement sound insane or to use /s.
Also, would most of the world even interpret that emoji as “eye rolling?”
Eye rolling is definitely a culturally-specific thing with the anglosphere, but the emoji is literally called “eye-roll” and does read visually as being that to someone familiar with the gesture.
The added nuance here is that eye-rolling is an expression of derision and not just sarcasm, while culturally /s is used for being facetious (think friendly sarcasm) as well as actual sarcasm.
You only interpret ‘\s’ as sarcasm because of html and sarcasm beginning with the letter ‘s’. If you don’t think pictorial eye-rolling ‘looks’ like sarcasm, just consider it almost like hieroglyphs.
Where the hell did you get HTML from? /s is a tag literally made to denote that a given text is sarcastic. It’s one of the few good things to come out of Twitter.
…that is much older than Twitter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator
Which is which?
The eye rolling is a sarcasm indicator, the monocle indicates curiosity.
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Yes brk I autist 🚗🚗🚗🚗
Using autist as an insult. Stay classy, Lemmy.
Seems like you autist
Or maybe you can just say:
“So, what’s the big deal?”
Because it means the exact same thing. And has the added benefit of the person you’re speaking with not think you’re a 12 year old kid.
What’s wrong with being an expressive 12yo?
What’s wrong in the thinking a person who uses emojis is a 12yo ? 🤦♂️
A lot if you’re not a 12 year old.
When you try too hard to preoccupy yourself with the concept of maturity and performatively try very hard to be The Adult In The Room:
Look, another Hexbear kid with memes everyone! So edgy!!
You, being very not mad at a moving picture for being too accurate when describing your tryhard attempts at “maturity:”