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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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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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