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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    I keep seeing zoomers use this and it keeps confusing the shit out of me, because half the time, it just looks like crying, not laughing-crying.

    Maybe they're just bad at it and using the wrong emoji half the time? idfk

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah the crying laughing emoji is 😂 why tf are they using the actual crying emoji

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    I genuinely do not know, but I keep running into that, where they just use the crying emoji and they tell me it means they're laughing so hard they cried (not literally of course but w/e)... even though there actually is a laughing-crying emoji.

    I'm going to yell at clouds tiktok, its probably cloud's tiktok's fault, somehow.

    EDIT:

    like, I tell a joke, they respond with a crying emoji, I am confused and apologetic because I think I hurt their feelings and they are just sad crying... nope.

    Nope they actually liked the joke.

    This has happened to me a number of times in the last 6-9 months, with different people.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I am actually gen z and the "😂" has simply become cringe because older people overused it so much and I guess that's why we switched to "😭"

    It's also interesting to me how you still see it as crying because my brain just doesn't make that connection at all anymore

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I genuienly appreciate the explanation, that makes sense.

    2 reasons unc here sees them similarly:

    A ) I barely ever use emojis

    Many millennials grew up using

    *-*

    =D

    :<

    0.0

    >=[

    ... style constructions to represent emotions / facial expressions in text.

    I'm used to those, I'm not used to emojis.

    B ) I'm just actually slowly losing visual acuity.

    I'm getting oooollldddd.

    I've got an astigmatism now, and I tend to only wear my glasses when I absolutely need to.

    So I have to squint or put on my glasses to make out variations in emojis, sometimes.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I've begun to find it grating, because somewhere along the line it seems to have been co-opted by people who exclusively communicate through passive aggression online lol

    So it's no longer "Who did this 😭😭"

    And more like "Why are you buying takeout after complaining about minimum wage being low 😭😭"

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