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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Didn’t know that, thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A few of those actually use emojis in the kaomoji

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I use text emoticons like I always have :D

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Timeless.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

[–] lazycouchpotato 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

┻━┻ ︵ ¯\ (ツ)/¯ ︵ ┻━┻

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your parenthesis don't match .

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OwO

For some emotions there isn't even an emoji yet.

UwU

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And let's hope there never is.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] eating3645 43 points 1 year ago

ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the "regular" emoji feel somewhat out of place here

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would anyone need to express emotions in a universal language?

🙄

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (16 children)

(・へ・)

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

(-‸ლ)

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

ಠ_ಠ

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

xDˣᴰ

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't go wrong with a table flips (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

they just make me (ノ`´)ノ ~┻━┻

and then I like to ─=≡Σ((((╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

┬──┬◡ノ(° -°ノ)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Personally, I'm OK with emoji as long as you don't spam them (3+ times the same emoji is spamming imo)

1 emoji for a normal expression

2 emoji for a heavy expression

3 emoji is still acceptable but my personal limit of tolerance

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always read 3+ back to back as a form of satire or sarcasm

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All of the above.

I resisted using emojis for a long time, but I changed jobs during Covid and was working from home permanently. I suddenly worked with a bunch of people I had never met before, and I realized that these people don't know my demeanor, so they don't know how to read my tone. I found emojis are almost necessary to convey tone in this situation. And after that, it kinda stuck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

☜(°ヮ°☜)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

3 emojis that complete a thought like:

🛩️💥🥂

[–] RGB3x3 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Celebrating a plane explosion?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regular emoji is just easier. But I do have a keyboard shortcut for the ¯\(ツ)/¯ which is my main textface, if annoying to edit his arm back in

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My keyboard has a built in text face keyboard

( ≧∀≦)ノ

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I've avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ASCII alone already does offer a rather wide range of emotions, no need for unicode. :D

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My usage is fairly restricted:

  • old school :^) for non-sarcastic irony
  • (¬¬) for eye rolling
  • shorthand emojis (e.g. if talking about Stardew Valley, instead of "the four hearts event" I might type "the 4♥ event")
  • as a way to avoid a specific word for metalinguistic reasons (e.g. "⟨dog⟩ is the signifier, 🐶 is the signified")
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Old school smileys :-) because My Keyboard app doesn't have a emoji board.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't use them on Lemmy, nobody else really does so it seems out of place. If I'm talking to one of my friends, it's a different story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only one I use super frequently is :3 which I imagine isn't a surprise to anyone lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

just fyi, Matrix has custom emojis per instance and custom to the user like discord does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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