Answering “thank you” to “I love you” is a polite way to deal with unwanted advances of another person. The reaction emoji under the message is commonly interpreted as “thank you”.
It’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you
The official name of the emoji is simply “folded hand”. It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It’s on page 11 on the original proposal: www.unicode.org/L2/…/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf
I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral “folded hand” so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray
Commonly high fives arr given by the palms of the same hand therefore the thumb would’ve been visible at least on one of the hands if ot was a high five emoji
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Answering “thank you” to “I love you” is a polite way to deal with unwanted advances of another person. The reaction emoji under the message is commonly interpreted as “thank you”.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You love me? I’ll pray for you
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That seems worse than “thank you”
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Life goes downhill sometimes
morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
But whatsapp has had reactions forever
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
still don’t get it
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
The “murder weapon” likely refers to the hurt feelings of the person making the advance.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve always been torn on whether it’s supposed to be a high five or praying hands. Is thank you really a common meaning?
Emojis are pretty hard for my autistic ass.
RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 10 months ago
It’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you
infeeeee@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The official name of the emoji is simply “folded hand”. It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It’s on page 11 on the original proposal: www.unicode.org/L2/…/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf
I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral “folded hand” so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray
ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Commonly high fives arr given by the palms of the same hand therefore the thumb would’ve been visible at least on one of the hands if ot was a high five emoji
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So this is how I find out I’ve also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…is that not what the 👍 is for? Or is that too obvious a ‘cool, now fuck off’ response?
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 10 months ago
That’s supposed to mean “thank you”? I always thought it was a begging gesture.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Depends on culture I guess.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I use it as either high five or thank you. It’s usually obvious to my interlocutor because they know my feelings towards religion