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• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • 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 clouds tiktok, its probably clouds tiktok’s fault, somehow.

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    • 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

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      • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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• FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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