Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄
My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.
Are you using the opendyslexic font?
This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.
Because they didn’t want you to read the
traumaterms of service better
Often yes, though most sans serif fonts work well enough for me.
Comic Sans?
I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like “fuck” need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.
Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it’s “Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?”
it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like
*During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️🗨️ at 💑 *
Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government
I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive… but that might just be me *shrug*
I’m sooooo with you. Emoticons 4eva! And ASCII art.
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My keyboard doesn’t have enough Cs on it to properly express how thicc that is.
Hahaha it’s from a VERY NSFW animation, “Axel in Harlem.” It was a big meme on a subreddit I used to go to, that I can no longer remember the name off it was all sped up and had “Ballin’” by Roddy Rich pitched up as the background music. It’s a hoot. I can pull that ASCII art by typing “forgies”. I also have
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Aaaah sexy Flanders!
Man, you hit the nail on the head for why emojis nag me, messages being monotone just makes it so much easier to parse.
I usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this
It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*
Yeah I assumed it was just html underneath it all. Test: <i>italics</I> <Strong>bold</strong>
It is eventually encoded into the DOM possibly via HTML or possibly through direct node creation but it’s more accurate to say it’s markdown.
Markdown, never heard the term, the m in html is markup I thought, it’s been years since I did any web design. 2006 I think is when I studied it, so I used notepad, and Dreamweaver was still owned by macromedia haha
Markdown and HTML are indeed both markup languages, markdown is one that was designed to align with a lot of internet text habits that emerged organically like using *s to create lists and ascii tables.
A reference is available here https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text
Oh cool thanks. I saw Div tags listed in there, does it natively support such or does that still fall into the css or JavaScript type of chunk.
Edit: nevermind, I bookmarked it, going to read through it all this weekend, could be fun to get more back into some old hobbies
I see it as a laugh track in american sitcoms, trying to force me to feel something that isn’t on the actor’s performance.
I interpret someone using that many as an idiot
Can confirm
I use emojis when I want to convey that I’m trolling.
what exactly have you seen people saying when they complain? when they do it like you did in the title, it’s just too busy for my eyes, I’ve been in Discord servers where the moderators ask people to remove most of the Emojis from their username because of how annoying it is (to them apparently. I find it a little obnoxious but not enough to care).
I basically use them as tone indicators. like
omg 😭
omg 🙄
omg 🖕
omg 💀
omg 🥵
etc.
A single emoji at the end of a post never hurt anybody 🤫
ಠ_ಠ
For real 😏
Word 💀
I love them but that was a bit much. 🤨
I love them too 🙂
I love them too 🍆💦
One emoji is fine.
Two if you want to underline your reaction.
Three is the maximum allowed by the cringe police.
After three according to the judgement of the Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale you belong to the Facebook boomer jail. Enjoy the nationalist/racist/sexist/lame minion “memes”.
When I see more than three laughing emojis a sitcom laughter is automatically playing in my head. It feels like being forced to laugh at gunpoint.
People who put the clapping emoji between every word should be taken to the guillotine.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands 👏👏
This is my new emoji rulebook and I’m going to explain to it to others exactly like this.
I feel honored \(^-^)/
Now I have that song stuck in my head again.
Hehe, that was the plan all along ;)
Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It’s just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It’s mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren’t formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I’m more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.
Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the “voice” may be missed.
Because this isn’t a Spot The Dog book, and we don’t need little picture of all the nouns.
On their own they’re ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they’re completely redundant.
What good does it do to say “I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch”?
I’ll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.
What a dick 😡
What a dick 🤤
Completely different meanings
🍕
I like one or two at the end of the sentence to help relay tone. As seen in:
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😂
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😭
Those are useful emojis.
The best part is when boomers can’t tell them apart. “Grandma died 😂”
Especially if they also misuse acronyms.
“Grandma died LOL 😂”
Loved out of life 👻
I’ve always found it annoying, can’t speak for the rest of the Fediverse.
Same, i have a hard time taking anything serious with an emoji and don’t think it adds anything
I said this elsewhere above, but I think they definitely can add something, it often is tone, which doesn’t appear in text.
Yeah but those jeans 😳
Yeah but those jeans 😏
Yeah but those jeans 😍
Yeah but those jeans 🤮
Same line, 4 meanings, I’m sure you can do more, but it can let someone know you are joking if you laugh, instead of having to put /s or such
I see emojis as text’s substitute for body language. Body language is supposed to supplement the spoken word. Emojis should supplement the paragraph.
Trying to communicate with more emojis than text is akin to trying to communicate with more body language than spoken word.
Ever try to say something but forget the word, and you try to convey the meaning with body language instead? Overuse of emojis implies a similar lapse of thought.
👍
You’re right, excess emoji usage is very Italian
You just described the way I dance.
