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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I keep seeing zoomers use this and it keeps confusing the shit out of me, because half the time, it just looks like crying, not laughing-crying.

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  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah the crying laughing emoji is 😂 why tf are they using the actual crying emoji

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I genuinely do not know, but I keep running into that, where they just use the crying emoji and they tell me it means they’re laughing so hard they cried (not literally of course but w/e)… even though there actually is a laughing-crying emoji.

      I’m going to yell at clouds tiktok, its probably clouds tiktok’s fault, somehow.

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      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am actually gen z and the “😂” has simply become cringe because older people overused it so much and I guess that’s why we switched to “😭”

        It’s also interesting to me how you still see it as crying because my brain just doesn’t make that connection at all anymore

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s because the regular laugh crying emoji got watered down so if something was really fuuny, one has to escalate.

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      • mimavox@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe because it isn’t cool to use 😂? It has a bit of a bad rep in that it’s seen as a boomer-emoji, I think.

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  • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve begun to find it grating, because somewhere along the line it seems to have been co-opted by people who exclusively communicate through passive aggression online lol

    So it’s no longer “Who did this 😭😭”

    And more like “Why are you buying takeout after complaining about minimum wage being low 😭😭”

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like when it’s sad but also funny, so like, you’re laughing, but also crying in a “this is too real” kinda way

    At least that’s how me and my friends seem to use it :p

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• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🥀🥀🥀

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