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 😭😭”
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah the crying laughing emoji is 😂 why tf are they using the actual crying emoji
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days 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
cloudstiktok, its probablycloudstiktok’s fault, somehow.Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days 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
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I genuienly appreciate the explanation, that makes sense.
2 reasons unc here sees them similarly:
A ) I barely ever use emojis
Many millennials grew up using
-
=D
:<
0.0
… style constuctions to represent emotions in text.
I’m used to those, I’m not used to emojis.
B ) I’m just actually slowly losing visual acuity.
I’m getting oooollldddd.
I’ve got an astigmatism now, and I tend to only wear my glasses when I absolutely need to.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
It’s because the regular laugh crying emoji got watered down so if something was really fuuny, one has to escalate.
mimavox@piefed.social 5 days 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.