Emojis are for people who don’t know how to read/write the local language. No exceptions. That includes ‘native speakers’ of the language who use them. Emoji are a sign of illiteracy and people who use them were failed by their education.

I use them about as often and i the same context as intentional facial expressions. 😅

Emojis are a trashy signal for me I hate them. I want my text monochrome. Cool unicode symbols get a pass. “⚠” Yes “⚠️” no.

𓀥 | 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 | 𓀣 𓁀

I think my first thought is that MAGA’s rage bot farms will use a lot of laughing emojis to taunt people.

I’ve always been of the opinion that one can use their words. I’ve never read anything with emojis crammed in where I felt they’ve added anything of substance. It just seems lazy and a bit trashy.

Yes. I’m well aware I’m a curmudgeon. I make no apologies.

It’s not that I dislike emoji, but that using them is more effort than a casual comment deserves.

Never?

My whole username is emoji. And I’m everywhere. 🫩

I use them on discord on sometimes on othef chat platforms. I don’t really like them in longer form text like lemmy or reddit.

They also, at least for me, carry context that doesn’t make that much sense outside one community. For example I used laughing cat emoji that we use to signify being amused and a guy from a different community thought I was mocking him.

Depends.

I rather use these: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I like ASCII emojis more. Emojis feel creepy sometimes I like the purple heart

Personally I am happy to be free of this arbitrary rule of Reddit sheep culture that you can’t use emojis. People here have the courtesy to use them as appropriate, and I myself use them occasionally. I hope we all just keep it that way.

🥵🥵🚇⬇️👀4️⃣🫰8️⃣🍆⬆️🔜

In neck of the woods the emoji 🙏🙏🙏

is practically a professional requirements.

has to be 3 🙏

It’s just that everyone is miserable here and it would be a river of sad and crying faces in every conversation…