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I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like π₯°) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
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As a millennial I never really used lol in my youth, it was always haha. lol seemed like it was for the boomers, but once I hit 30, I just stopped caring about such distinctions and use lol unironically now.
I just use that shit cause it's the first thing that pops up, if I have to choose, this is the one I use for everything. π
The slanted eyes emoji
I envision him as skeptical
That's a... peculiar way to view it. I like it.
Just to make some of you feel old: I'm gen Z and I'm 25.
Get off my lawn!
Just to make some of you feel older, Iβm gen z and Iβm 26
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Can someone explain?
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
Eh, it is when the "childhood" age ends and development stabilizes for a bit before declining, close enough for shitposts.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a βold(er) personβ thing?
Iβve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called βironicβ among my kids and their friends, so Iβm not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
The scariest part is how many I've caught using π as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"
I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
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Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
They start a Skype call so they can show you live how much it made them laugh
Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?
Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
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Got it, thank you. π π π I'm glad to see that real comedy isn't dead!
Using π feels very millennial/gen x.
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Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on βem. Give me five bees for a quarter youβd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didnβt have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.
This is peak old person storytelling
ASCII emojis are still real to me dammit
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not developed. proper rotted.
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