Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Because lemmy users tend to be tech literate millennials or older, who were using the internet before it became a widely popular and used thing.
We remember a time before emojis. And to us, there is art, and more meaning in continuing the old ways of using textual symbols in clever ways to convey an emotion.
Emojis are a cop out, a cheap and easy way to do the same, invented for a mass audience that didnt want to do any thinking or be clever in any kind of way and wanted it all handed to them.
I realize this may sound silly but I will die on this hill: emojis are for children and the technically illiterate, they are an appropriation of a culture spawned by some gen x and mostly millennials when the curious of us forged our own way onto what was at one point in time a frontier of seemingly infinite possibility.
No idea, here’s a sword
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Nice sword. Can I have one?
Have a great day! :D
Massive fucking sord
that’s what she said
BigDickProblems was such a hilarious subreddit, i shit like IAmVerySmart and such. Its so easy to see thru often
That’s a nice sword.
second a few other comments, a lot of people conflating emoticons and emojis
- emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- emoji: 🤷
- emoticon: =>^.^<=
- emoji: 🐱
I propose that we call the symbols in both emoticons and emoji “emos”.
And we call emos, goths
I wonder what happened to all the emo girls
no, no … emo and goth are different, goths have fashion sense …
Very true. Also, I believe you forgot to escape the 2nd ^ symbol? I think it should look like this:
=>\^.\^<==>^.^<=
It’s understandable. Back in the old old days, these 😱 were often called emoticons. The reason was that the chat software that people used to automatically replaced ;-) by 😉. The menu was the same and the name of this menu was emoticon.
One of the most famous example of this is MSN Messenger.
People keep the habit to call them emoticons.
In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.
Boomer culture shifted to the millenial generation, acting as the distinguishing trait on internet forums from Gen Z(oomers), and Gen Z are adopting the millenial teenager hipster traits.
Sure there is that. There is also the idea that adding emotions to a discussion adds nothing useful, and is a sign of immaturity when shown.
No, it is not immature to use emojis or emoticons or Lennys. They are communication tools, just like words and phrases. I think of them like spices. You have to be an artist of grammar to correctly use them, to add flavour to your sentences.
I can’t wait to read printed text that has them to better enunciate certain plot points. Harry Potter could have used an 😱 or two to let me know in advance how to react to certain moments.
Realtime fast communication does not need to be the same as books written for centuries. Nobody is printing JSONs of internet comments as novels and biographies.
I’ll give you that, emojis are good at quickly communicating intent in situations where time is short. But this is a message board, where’s the hurry buddy
The average lifespan of a thread on Reddit/Lemmy style discussion boards is about 18-24 hours. If factored in a lot of international participants across polar timezones, it can go upto 30-36 hours atmost. That is a very fast exchange of messages when the comments start piling up.
Slow exchange of messages is not what you are having here. A slow digital exchange would be something like email.
