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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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