This is so sad, it makes me cry a lot ๐๐
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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So lonely without him๐ฅบ
LoL
Uncle Mark: Iโm dead ๐๐
Classic Uncle Mark.
Dad: Hi dead, Iโm dad๐ฅธ
rises from the dead to blast dad with a shotgun
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I think your parents are trying to teach you
You've got two generations present.
One for whom emoji happened well into adulthood, and they start tacking them on awkwardly and redundantly.
One for whom emoji has always been almost as accessible as the latin alphabet, and touchscreen keyboards are so shit that emoji themselves become slang for concepts that they're only obliquely related to.
There's a middle. I still use emoticons and completely reject emojis. All ASCII all the time.
(^ยฐ^)
Same. Itโs just more natural to me
Emoji have done something that emoticons never did: Emoji have become hieroglyphs.
:) :o :D XD This tells the story of a happy person being surprised and then starting to laugh. Emoticons were crude depictions of facial expressions and never took on abstract meanings beyond those.
Emoji, partially because a lot of them are Japanese, are badly designed. On most systems I've seen Emoji on, they're too small and the details are too fine to really make them out. There's 1,000 facial expression ones, all of them are mostly just yellow circles. Why does there have to be a slightly frowning and a frowning face? Why do we have "woozy" and "dizzy" as separate glyphs? ๐ตโ๐ซ Which of the two is that? Trick question, neither, that's "face with spiral eyes." Emoji are stage IV emoticon cancer. So teh youthz don't actually use the facial expression ones, they use a skull for laughing, because that one is white and easy to tell apart. Apparently the etymology is "died/dying laughing."
Trying it on Lemmy's emoji selector, "skull" and "death" both return the skull emoji, but "laugh" or "funny" doesn't. So the skull emoji, along with others, are like hieroglyphs. They've taken on abstract indirect meanings of their own independent of what the glyph literally means.
The skull emoji also signifies deadpan delivery of a joke. Because the skull is incapable of showing emotion, the skull represents a falsely blank expression.
I forgor ๐
>:[
:D
Legend
O7
Yes. And there's a younger generation (Gen Alpha) using slangs such as "๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ" as a synonym for "๐ฎ" (if I understood correctly, because I'm not Alpha, I'm Zennial).
From what I've seen, ๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ is more like "focused on watching this", but I'm even older, so maybe I'm misunderstanding.
They seem to be using them correctly to me ๐ซ๐คน
Gen Z uses๐to mean laughing from what I understand.
Wait, what? I tought that it's more like awkward situation type of emoji.
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As the other person already said, it basically means "I'm dead" and you can laugh so hard that you supposedly die, or you can die inside, due to an awkward situation. It can be used for both.
Like "I'm ded" because I laughed so hard I rolled on the floor and laughed my ass off and turns out that was a key part of my biology and it's gone so I'm ded now.
Okay now they need to write a eulogy entirely in emojis.
Task failed successfully.
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Oh god, uncle John burned to death in a house fire?
Uncle John has burned to death on a mountaintop apparently.
RIP In Peace Uncle Mark
Mark that one down. ๐
I didn't even know he was sick ๐
Oh dear. Imagine if they figure out how to use mene-GIFS next.
coffin dance gif
Your uncle is in it.
"I'm too old for this shit"
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The message would be better and more sympathetically conveyed without any emoji, but if you have to have one, this seems appropriate.
o7
That's lit