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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
You love me? I’ll pray for you
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
That seems worse than “thank you”
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Life goes downhill sometimes
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
But whatsapp has had reactions forever
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
still don’t get it
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
The “murder weapon” likely refers to the hurt feelings of the person making the advance.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
So this is how I find out I’ve also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
…is that not what the 👍 is for? Or is that too obvious a ‘cool, now fuck off’ response?
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
That’s supposed to mean “thank you”? I always thought it was a begging gesture.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Depends on culture I guess.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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