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I don't think jesse-wtf is a very good emoji, because maybe the facial expression is there but it's small and dark, and looks like a guy making a slightly-scrunched-but-essentially-neutral facial expression. A WTF emoji should have a big extravagant expression

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The what the fuck are you talking about emoji works because it's a shared cultural reference to that specific scene. Jackie's WTF face would be more universal, but lacks that in group meme quality.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's a 2000s-era advice animal meme, I imagine many of the people on this website weren't even online when it was still popular. Like me, I'm not that old side-eye-1

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Owls don't count. Owl memes never die.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, it's a scene from a 2019 movie and the meme wasn't a thing until 2020:

On October 11th, 2019, crime thriller El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie premiered[2] (scene shown below, right). In a flashback scene, Walter and Jesse are dining together at a restaurant, discussing food, their plans and lives.

On March 13th, 2020, iFunny[3] user CosmicRewind posted a Based on What? meme based on the latter scene. In the multi-panel meme, Jesse attempts to explain what "based" means to Walter, with him not understanding it and asking Jesse to explain himself (shown below).

Lol, that is not an 2000's-era advice animal meme. It's as recent as covid ffs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assume they were talking about the Jackie Chan meme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Yeah, rereading it, I guess I'm not sure which they're talking about for sure. It still seems like they meant the Jesse-Wtf one, given the comment they were responding to, and also since I don't think that Jackie Chan image was ever really a meme, let alone popular. But I could be wrong. TrashcanOfIdeology, If you mean the Jackie Chan meme is 2000's era advice animal, then my mistake, it could well be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No worries, I was talking about the jackie chan meme being old and long irrelevant except to those of us who were terminally online in the 2000s, but I can see how you could've assumed otherwise from the way I wrote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Speak for yourself.

I don't share that culture/scene/group

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I've never seen the show, i picked it up through cultural osmosis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You may not, but that doesn't change the fact that it is an extremely well known meme that internet culture in general understands and uses. Frank is speaking not just for himself, but for the broader internet meme culture. It's like the

anakin-padme-2 anakin-padme-3 anakin-padme-4 series.

I'm sure you could find images of people, even famous people, being more expressive and emotive with the "you mean... ...right? ...right??" sentiment. But nearly everyone already knows this one. It's just an internet thing at this point. Same with the Jesse-Wtf emoji. That's what Frank means by shared cultural reference (I'm pretty sure anyway, I'm not trying to put words in anyone's mouth).

Also, the jesse-wtf is imo a rather perfect expression for the way it usually gets used.

We do already have other "wtf?" emojis like wtf that express a similar but slightly different sentiment (though they also lack that cultural touchstone).

The image of Walt seems very expressive to me, but it's not the same kind of "wtf" as your Jackie Chan emoji. The Walt one expresses more of a dumbfoundedness, a kind of mild shock along with confusion and importantly, a bit of disdain. There are a lot of circumstances when that kind of specific sentiment is what's called for. That's not to say your Jackie Chan one wouldn't also have moments where it would be more fitting and the better choice, but it's showing a very different kind of emotion, one that I would expect would find moments of appropriate use fewer and farther between. In short, the JC emoji would be for different circumstances, with more over the top exasperation, and wouldn't fit well in some places where the Walt emoji does. So I would say sure, add it to the bunch, it is just definitely not a replacement of the perennial emoji that is Walt's "Jess, wtf?!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think we're running into a definition of fuck conflict here.

The way you want to say WTF and how you portray it has relevance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

In the absence of black_mold_futures, I just don't think there are that many appropriate uses for jesse-wtf. RIP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

jackie admitted to physically abusing his toddler son and disowned his daughter for being a lesbian, would prefer not to be reminded of all that seeing this as an emoji

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Walter White did way worse tbh if we want to split hairs here (username: CoolerOpposide said, dripping with sarcasm)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i get the comedic sentiment, and the following isn’t aimed at you

to further clarify, other terrible people emojis here are used because they are terrible to mock them, this one bothers me because it’s proposed to be used a generic wtf and glosses over his child abuse and homophobia. Chan has this kid-friendly public image and got to star in an animated kids show for fuck sake while being a piece of shit and this feels like continued whitewashing. jack black gets more heat and attention here for being kid-friendly while libbing out but an actual child abuser homophobe gets a proposed ‘clean’ emoji trophy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Kawaii desu ne :3c

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Seeing this 2011-era pic has me thinking of the AVGN theme

he's gonna take you back to the past
to see the ancient memes that suck ass

he'd rather have a pedobear
take a diarrhea dump in his ear

PS I don't think the Jackie Chan pic sucks, but I had to go with the song.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m sorry but you’re wrong for thinking that jesse-wtf is not a good emoji.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm right u'r wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

none of your business