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The Picard Maneuver to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months ago

I think they're nailing it

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I think they're nailing it

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The Picard Maneuver to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months ago
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  • @finn_der_mensch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    58•6 months ago

    This is so sad, it makes me cry a lot 😂😂

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      💦

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      1•6 months ago

      So lonely without him🥺

    • @sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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      1•6 months ago

      LoL

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    41•6 months ago

    I think your parents are trying to teach you

  • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    31•6 months ago

    They seem to be using them correctly to me 🫁🤹

    • @johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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      9•6 months ago

      Gen Z uses💀to mean laughing from what I understand.

      • TheMediocreOne
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        7•6 months ago

        Wait, what? I tought that it’s more like awkward situation type of emoji.

        • Ephera
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          5•6 months ago

          As the other person already said, it basically means “I’m dead” and you can laugh so hard that you supposedly die, or you can die inside, due to an awkward situation. It can be used for both.

        • @kopasz7@lemmy.world
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          4•6 months ago

          🗿

  • Captain Aggravated
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    30•6 months ago

    You’ve got two generations present.

    One for whom emoji happened well into adulthood, and they start tacking them on awkwardly and redundantly.

    One for whom emoji has always been almost as accessible as the latin alphabet, and touchscreen keyboards are so shit that emoji themselves become slang for concepts that they’re only obliquely related to.

    • @PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21•6 months ago

      There’s a middle. I still use emoticons and completely reject emojis. All ASCII all the time.

      • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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        I exclusively use rage comic memes to express myself. Does that date me? Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        5•6 months ago

        Same. It’s just more natural to me

        • Captain Aggravated
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          10•6 months ago

          Emoji have done something that emoticons never did: Emoji have become hieroglyphs.

          :) :o :D XD This tells the story of a happy person being surprised and then starting to laugh. Emoticons were crude depictions of facial expressions and never took on abstract meanings beyond those.

          Emoji, partially because a lot of them are Japanese, are badly designed. On most systems I’ve seen Emoji on, they’re too small and the details are too fine to really make them out. There’s 1,000 facial expression ones, all of them are mostly just yellow circles. Why does there have to be a slightly frowning and a frowning face? Why do we have “woozy” and “dizzy” as separate glyphs? 😵‍💫 Which of the two is that? Trick question, neither, that’s “face with spiral eyes.” Emoji are stage IV emoticon cancer. So teh youthz don’t actually use the facial expression ones, they use a skull for laughing, because that one is white and easy to tell apart. Apparently the etymology is “died/dying laughing.”

          Trying it on Lemmy’s emoji selector, “skull” and “death” both return the skull emoji, but “laugh” or “funny” doesn’t. So the skull emoji, along with others, are like hieroglyphs. They’ve taken on abstract indirect meanings of their own independent of what the glyph literally means.

          • @joes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Emoji, partially because a lot of them are Japanese, are badly designed.

            uhhh

      • Ricky Rigatoni
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        (^°^)

      • @TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world
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        3•6 months ago

        Legend

        O7

    • @dsilverz@thelemmy.club
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      deleted by creator

      • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        2•6 months ago

        From what I’ve seen, 👁️👄👁️ is more like “focused on watching this”, but I’m even older, so maybe I’m misunderstanding.

  • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    18•6 months ago

    RIP In Peace Uncle Mark

  • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    17•6 months ago

    🧍‍♂️🔥💀🗻⚱️

  • Prehensile_cloaca
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    12•6 months ago

    I didn’t even know he was sick 😏

  • Flying Squid
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    11•6 months ago

    Okay now they need to write a eulogy entirely in emojis.

  • @DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world
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    8•6 months ago

    F

  • @TechAnon@lemm.ee
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    6•6 months ago

    Mark that one down. 💀

  • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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    5•6 months ago

    The message would be better and more sympathetically conveyed without any emoji, but if you have to have one, this seems appropriate.

  • @dephyre@lemmy.world
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    5•6 months ago

    o7

  • @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml
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    4•6 months ago

    Task failed successfully.

  • @phx@lemmy.ca
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    Oh dear. Imagine if they figure out how to use mene-GIFS next.

    • @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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      coffin dance gif

      Your uncle is in it.

  • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    2•6 months ago

    That’s lit

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