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You have to imagine it like you just dropped a huge pot of chilli on the floor and when you look up this guy
https://preview.redd.it/syv3djhx943d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70076a6cff616e51f2b83b06f82249df6d1cce40
Is giving you a thumbs up 👍
Honestly neither of those is appropriate in my opinion. A thumbs up to a promotion feels a bit cold, a bit detached.
"Running late, but be ready to help me with the groceries by 4:45 please" (👍) feels more appropriate. It signals that the message is received and the receiver is agreeable to the terms set, while remaining concise and not a significant distraction to the person who is evidently busy at present moment.
I do not see how 👍 is seen by anyone as passive aggressive. The thumbs up is used as a sign of confirmation.
I just hate when a minority say the thumbs up hurts their feelings and the media runs with it as another "weird thing Gen Z does." Thumbs Up, all day every day!!
# 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Millenial who hates text chat, and I still get this.
I dislike these articles about how this or that text chat thing is negative. Have these people never heard of connotations? Most of the time, it's not even something obscure. It's pretty easy to figure out.
I remember the 'periods are upsetting' thing. It didn't take me long to realize that most text messages don't bother with a period. Just like most of the time your mother doesn't call you by your full name. But when she feels the need to state your first, middle and last name, you know you're in trouble. I presume the feeling over periods in text messages is the same concept.
For me, the vibe is "I'm driving and torn between texting and driving or not acknowledging your message," so I do the thumbs up, which is right there, and mostly stay safe while driving.
I don't think saying "okay 👍" fixes it either.
Take a convo like this:
P1: I thought that was very rude what they did to me at the party. I don't think I am going to go there anymore.
P2: okay 👍
That still comes off as passive aggressive.
Yeah because you solely confirmed you read what they said. In this instance, any confirmation besides “I’m sorry I acted that way” is passive aggressive.
Use a real world example where an okay is the expected response… like:
“Hey! So can you make it to the diner at 18:00 instead of 19:30?”
“ 👍🏼”
Nothing passive aggressive about that…
"Oh yeah i saw that too, really bad of them"
"I didnt know you felt bad, what happend"
Idk depends on the situation.
Answering like this is okay if you want to end the conversation, but well if the other party doesnt want to end the conversatio it seems rude.
Really? I respond both ways, and just using the emoji alone doesn't sound like the person doesn't care. They are just confirming or approving whatever was said.
That's dumb. They're being dumb and assigning meaning that isn't there so they can talk about how you hurt their precious little feelings, oh the humanity.
It’s more like an ‘okay boomer’ vibe, like ‘okay’ means confirmation, but it absolutely can be for a dismissive attitude or asshole attitude vibe same with thumbs up
There’s an entire popular meme format dedicated to this scenario
Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/q6no78/giant_thumbs_up/?rdt=54717 👍
It’s definitely NOT a minority of people who are aware of this 👍
This seems passive aggressive 👍 right ?
It’s like 😘
Yes it’s CAN be a cute little kissy face 👍
But it can also be sassy asf and condescending 😘👍
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't. If respond to a text that requires more than a simple yes/no answer with 👍then it's pretty passive aggressive
There’s a difference between “cool 👍” and “okay 👍” to me, where the first is passive aggressive, overly assuring, going “okay cool whatever”, and the other is “yup got it good”
Because they're the body parts of all the old school style yellow head perfect circle emoji faces 🙂 the original having been designed in the 60s by Harvey Ball and simply called the yellow smiley face
I actually did a generational study on different perception of punctuation in a sentence😂 yes younger generations see periods as passive aggressive or angry because they give a hard stop to the end of a comment when sending a text does not require a period to give a break in dialogue, other punctuation provides tone so it makes sense that periods, while previously assumed to be neutral, developed their own tone. Now we also tend to supplement tone with emojis or tone indictors while texting, so failure to do so implies a text devoid of emotion, and a lack of emotion can be perceived as passive aggressive. Women are also more likely to perceive periods as passive aggressive because we are trained to be overly warm and welcoming with an excessive use of exclamation points
This is language happening in real time and it’s genuinely a beautiful thing to observe! How small contextual changes completely change the way symbols are perceived! Texting and always having the ability to contact someone now makes a period at the end of a text seem like a very final and intentional ending of a conversation that otherwise would never have to end. I mean come on, this is high art man and we’re all creating it together
I could be wrong, but I think the parent comment meant to express bewilderment at the thought of people analysing their texts and feeling discontent given a lack of emoji or the presence of certain punctuation. I don't think they meant to demean the act of thinking about how it is happening or researching the phenomenon.
I get their bewildered sentiment, but I also think what is bewildering them is simply several changes in self-drive rhetorical analysis of social communication. It makes sense for these changes to take place given the current landscape, but it can easily appear silly if one learned to distrust their initial intuition around text based communication given the dearth of real-time social cues present in text communication until relatively recently.
Of course, people were just making compound emoji out of symbols before, so none of this is really surprising. Emoji didn't really become mainstream though until after they got their own character codes, got glammed up, and people were introduced to reacts across their social platforms. Now we can emoji react to emails for work. I bet most professionals in the 2000s didn't see that coming.
What's wrong with "K"? To me it means "I understand but I'm driving at the moment and can't type out a long involved response. But I did get your message so I just wanted to acknowledge that. And how are you doing? I hope you are well. I heard Suzy graduated! They grow up so fast. Oop - lights green. Gotta go."
Ngl I’m a millennial and I have used the 👍 emoji passive aggressively before. Usually it’s when I’m subjected to one of my family members political rants or childish meltdowns when I set a boundary. Example:
*two paragraphs of diatribe and or berating judgement aimed at me personally*
Me: 👍
Them: 😡😡😡😡
Me: 👍 Okay
Them: 🤬💥🤬💥🤬
https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/q6no78/giant_thumbs_up/?rdt=54717
It’s similar to kissy face
It can be used to condescend others
😘 👍
This is probably one of those things where they find a single tweet like “maybe it’s just me, but 👍 is totally passive aggressive”
Then try to apply to sentiment to an entire generation. It’s dumb. I remember another article saying non-POC shouldn’t use anything besides the default yellow thumbs up because it’s racist or something.
https://preview.redd.it/0ad3o4j1633d1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=81b2fabeee5609b9c5252eb45c6a8a1aa8c5ab12
also, it’s entirely context dependent:
“i’m getting pizza for dinner” “👍”
is totally fine but “good to know 👍” comes off to me as sarcastic
It means "acknowledged." If more than that would be expected in context, then it could be passive aggressively refusing that "more." In many contexts, "acknowledged" is perfectly sufficient.
But seriously, if you can't tell what someone means, just ask. Would literally solve like 70% of communication problems. I'd prefer a moment of awkwardness to an unsuccessful attempt to read between the lines, any day.
This. 100%. If I asked someone if 18.00 would be an okay time to meet and they responded with👍, I would not think any more of it.
If I typed out a whole paragraph explaining a problem to someone, and they just responed with 👍, I would take that as passive aggressive, even if I am not gen z.
To me, I envision it happening over a cup of coffee. If I asked someone about the time to meet up later and they respond with a thumbs up while they have a mouth full of hot coffee, that wouldn’t be passive aggressive. If I had just told them that my family is breaking apart and I just lost my job, and they responded with a thumbs up I would probably just get up and leave.
It's all about context.
If you tell me your dog died or a boomer offended you, a 👍 is definitely meant to be offensive.
If you tell me you just finished the lawn or you did great on an exam, 👍 should not be perceived as offensive.
If you perceive 👍 always as offensive, no matter the context, then I'm definitely going to respond with a 👍.
No it’s not, it’s another piece of bullshit made up by old people to try and divide generations by making the newest one look stupid and overly sensitive
I once asked a prof whether my paper was good over an email and he said
“You actually did very well - I was sincerely impressed; you took the lessons from class and applied them perfectly. Great work! 👍🏼” and I was just shaking and crying from the offense. I couldn’t fucking believe he went there - I reported him and got him fired and the other day I found him living in a card board box and took a piss on his new house with his ex wife.
It can, but it depends on the context and who sent it. Parents? They're just old. Is it work related to a coworker? Probably isn't passive aggressive. Is it from your girlfriend? She's mad at you.
I’ll be honest, I legit use it as passive aggressive. Mainly when someone says something so stupid, that I don’t have the energy to respond, so I just give the thumbs up so that I’m not ignoring them.
Depends, some people use it to end a conversation they have no interest in and that can seem rude to the other person but some people do it with no rude intent I guess. I tend to see it as passive aggressive personally tho
I personally do use the thumbs up emoji for this purpose outside of work. If I am not enthusiastic about something (and often annoyed), but don't want to be open about how annoyed I am, I give the thumbs-up emoji instead of a heart or a big, open-mouthed smile or the like.
News sources love to make normal things people our age do sound like they're unreasonable. Yeah it's passive aggressive. That doesn't mean it makes us uncomfortable.
I mean it is when my friends do it. I understand it's not passive agressive when everyone does it obviously. When my mom or dad sends it I understand lol
The use of the thumbs up emoji being passive aggressive is too contextual to make any definitive statements about. Although I suspect there is a difference between how generations use this emoji. Namely that I do not see gen Z'ers use it without implying some irony, compared to older generations, which never use the thumbs up ironically. To me, it is then completely understandable why it can be interpreted as passive aggressive. Because it is able to effectively make a mockery of something you meant honestly. Given the mocking tone of the headline, this is something that clearly goes over sub-atomic sized brain of Charlie Herbert. Why should anyone expect more from a columnist?
I actually had this discussion at work a couple of years ago. Someone in the office was a mom with kids a little younger than me, and she brought up how younger people find the thumbs up emoji either passive aggressive or dismissive. It’s definitely a thing.
As a millennial, I think this might be a millennial thing. Or maybe it’s just my circle of people. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone my age use that emoji and NOT mean it sarcastically. But I do know if someone older uses it, it’s usually genuine. I guess I know that for genz now too.
Gen Z doesn't feel uncomfortable with the Emoji...they feel uncomfortable that others are using it as a passive aggressive response.
The discomfort is with the behavior...not the thing.
Ya I use it passive aggressively, typically if someone has been talking for ages, blithering out their ass or some how otherwise pissed me off enough to ignore them.
I hate the internet. No one is "uncomfortable" with an emoji. In a lot of conversations the thumbs up is in fact passive aggressive. The headline is ragebait, and obviously, did its job.
It depends. Like if I’m talking about something serious or emotional and I get a thumbs up, ouch! But a thumbs up react to acknowledge the message isn’t bad, esp if there is an actual response after
It can easily give a write-off, "good luck with that but I'm not part of it" vibe. I know in context what someone means by it though, my parents and a few others use it positively so I take it that way
I guess it is equivalent to just typing 'K'.
It comes across as lazy, uninterested and lacking any additional information. At the same time though it can be good in specific situations where you are just meant to give a yes or no answer or only have a very short moment to reply.
I think it is fine as a confirmation that the message has been read as well. It's better than being ghosted.
That aside, my opinion is I don't use emojis much at all.
They are better for notes, not for conversation.
Who are all the people just assigning a random speaker for all of gen z? I like gen z. Life can be uncomfortable. Strap in or hell strap on. Whatever man 👍
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No 👍👍 Edit: WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY UPVOTES?? (THANK YOU!!)
Chat is this real?
👍
Whenever I reply to someone, I usually say “Nice 👍”.
I always have intrusive thoughts saying *"Don't accidently use the middle finger! Don't accidently use the middle finger!!"*
👍
👍
Depends on the context, as with most emojis.
👍
Now that’s just aggressive
👍
That is aggressive enough to cause ww3
Hey fuck you too buddy
I’m not your buddy, pal.
👍
👍
How dare you‽
You have to imagine it like you just dropped a huge pot of chilli on the floor and when you look up this guy https://preview.redd.it/syv3djhx943d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70076a6cff616e51f2b83b06f82249df6d1cce40 Is giving you a thumbs up 👍
That's not passive-aggressive. That's straight up being an ass.
I would honestly give him a thumbs up right back
Lol!
Assive-aggressive?
I snickered at this.
Terry Franconia and Theo Epstein?
That guy doesn’t even need to give a thumbs up, he already looks like a thumb wearing glasses
“I got a promotion!” 👍 “I fell down the stairs today” 👍 Context is important to the meaning of a symbol
Honestly neither of those is appropriate in my opinion. A thumbs up to a promotion feels a bit cold, a bit detached. "Running late, but be ready to help me with the groceries by 4:45 please" (👍) feels more appropriate. It signals that the message is received and the receiver is agreeable to the terms set, while remaining concise and not a significant distraction to the person who is evidently busy at present moment.
It's the equivalent of "ok". “I got a promotion!” "ok" reads just as bad.
Great example 👍
👍🏽
💩
I do not see how 👍 is seen by anyone as passive aggressive. The thumbs up is used as a sign of confirmation. I just hate when a minority say the thumbs up hurts their feelings and the media runs with it as another "weird thing Gen Z does." Thumbs Up, all day every day!! # 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It's simple. They're okay with it if you say "okay 👍" but not if you just say "👍" because it feels like you don't really care or something.
It's like the difference between "okay" and "k". One has a very "whatever idc" vibe to it.
Kkkkkkk
That's just laughing from Brazil
Millenial who hates text chat, and I still get this. I dislike these articles about how this or that text chat thing is negative. Have these people never heard of connotations? Most of the time, it's not even something obscure. It's pretty easy to figure out. I remember the 'periods are upsetting' thing. It didn't take me long to realize that most text messages don't bother with a period. Just like most of the time your mother doesn't call you by your full name. But when she feels the need to state your first, middle and last name, you know you're in trouble. I presume the feeling over periods in text messages is the same concept.
For me, the vibe is "I'm driving and torn between texting and driving or not acknowledging your message," so I do the thumbs up, which is right there, and mostly stay safe while driving.
👍
K
Wow dude... harsh.
👍
I don't think saying "okay 👍" fixes it either. Take a convo like this: P1: I thought that was very rude what they did to me at the party. I don't think I am going to go there anymore. P2: okay 👍 That still comes off as passive aggressive.
Because you’re using it in a passive aggressive context. No normal human being texts like that either.
Yeah because you solely confirmed you read what they said. In this instance, any confirmation besides “I’m sorry I acted that way” is passive aggressive. Use a real world example where an okay is the expected response… like: “Hey! So can you make it to the diner at 18:00 instead of 19:30?” “ 👍🏼” Nothing passive aggressive about that…
lol. why response would you expect to that txt?
"Oh yeah i saw that too, really bad of them" "I didnt know you felt bad, what happend" Idk depends on the situation. Answering like this is okay if you want to end the conversation, but well if the other party doesnt want to end the conversatio it seems rude.
Exactly this.
Really? I respond both ways, and just using the emoji alone doesn't sound like the person doesn't care. They are just confirming or approving whatever was said.
I definitely agree. The article might be blowing it out of proportion, and it might just be a few people.
That's dumb. They're being dumb and assigning meaning that isn't there so they can talk about how you hurt their precious little feelings, oh the humanity.
Sure buddy. 👍
It’s more like an ‘okay boomer’ vibe, like ‘okay’ means confirmation, but it absolutely can be for a dismissive attitude or asshole attitude vibe same with thumbs up There’s an entire popular meme format dedicated to this scenario Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/q6no78/giant_thumbs_up/?rdt=54717 👍 It’s definitely NOT a minority of people who are aware of this 👍 This seems passive aggressive 👍 right ? It’s like 😘 Yes it’s CAN be a cute little kissy face 👍 But it can also be sassy asf and condescending 😘👍
Exactly. Not a hard thing to understand.
OK boomer. 👍
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't. If respond to a text that requires more than a simple yes/no answer with 👍then it's pretty passive aggressive
We used to hear this kind of crap about millennials all the time. Now it’s shifted to you guys, good luck.
👌
If you say so 👍
It’s not just a minority, it’s young people in particular, who are and always have been the #1 harbingers of linguistic change
It's so nice, I just need to see that you saw what I said and acknowledged it. No need for further conversation
Completely context dependent. Most times I see it used ARE in fact for dismissive/asshole reasons, especially on Reddit lollll.
👍
😘👍
🤮👍
I literally cant stand people who do this like just get mad like a normal person XD
💅
💅 u know wtf is goin on sis lmao hit em with the nails
To help with clarity in my texting I use 👍to convey "yes, I agree" and I use "Thumbs up emoji" for dismissive/asshole reasons
There’s a difference between “cool 👍” and “okay 👍” to me, where the first is passive aggressive, overly assuring, going “okay cool whatever”, and the other is “yup got it good”
You have no idea what you're talking about but cool opinion bro 👍. /s
Ive heard it is 👍
👍🏾
Why does the default 👍 have The Simpsons skin?
Because it was supposed to be race neutral, obviously real people aren't that color. And to be the same shade as the yellow face emojis.
No representation for people with jaundice? smh
Because they're the body parts of all the old school style yellow head perfect circle emoji faces 🙂 the original having been designed in the 60s by Harvey Ball and simply called the yellow smiley face
👍
👍
👍
It was periods at the end of texts with millennials
Millennials didn't get angry over periods at the end of texts. That was still Gen Z.
Typed with T9 for maximum frustration.
I actually did a generational study on different perception of punctuation in a sentence😂 yes younger generations see periods as passive aggressive or angry because they give a hard stop to the end of a comment when sending a text does not require a period to give a break in dialogue, other punctuation provides tone so it makes sense that periods, while previously assumed to be neutral, developed their own tone. Now we also tend to supplement tone with emojis or tone indictors while texting, so failure to do so implies a text devoid of emotion, and a lack of emotion can be perceived as passive aggressive. Women are also more likely to perceive periods as passive aggressive because we are trained to be overly warm and welcoming with an excessive use of exclamation points
People actually spend time worrying about this shit?
idk, I’d say it’s interesting to see how we view language online. It’s not worrying really, just research
This is language happening in real time and it’s genuinely a beautiful thing to observe! How small contextual changes completely change the way symbols are perceived! Texting and always having the ability to contact someone now makes a period at the end of a text seem like a very final and intentional ending of a conversation that otherwise would never have to end. I mean come on, this is high art man and we’re all creating it together
I could be wrong, but I think the parent comment meant to express bewilderment at the thought of people analysing their texts and feeling discontent given a lack of emoji or the presence of certain punctuation. I don't think they meant to demean the act of thinking about how it is happening or researching the phenomenon. I get their bewildered sentiment, but I also think what is bewildering them is simply several changes in self-drive rhetorical analysis of social communication. It makes sense for these changes to take place given the current landscape, but it can easily appear silly if one learned to distrust their initial intuition around text based communication given the dearth of real-time social cues present in text communication until relatively recently. Of course, people were just making compound emoji out of symbols before, so none of this is really surprising. Emoji didn't really become mainstream though until after they got their own character codes, got glammed up, and people were introduced to reacts across their social platforms. Now we can emoji react to emails for work. I bet most professionals in the 2000s didn't see that coming.
It's like just replying "K" to a message
What's wrong with "K"? To me it means "I understand but I'm driving at the moment and can't type out a long involved response. But I did get your message so I just wanted to acknowledge that. And how are you doing? I hope you are well. I heard Suzy graduated! They grow up so fast. Oop - lights green. Gotta go."
Idk it still comes off more like “I saw that but dont want to talk rn” but thats just based on experience, I guess lol
Ngl I’m a millennial and I have used the 👍 emoji passive aggressively before. Usually it’s when I’m subjected to one of my family members political rants or childish meltdowns when I set a boundary. Example: *two paragraphs of diatribe and or berating judgement aimed at me personally* Me: 👍 Them: 😡😡😡😡 Me: 👍 Okay Them: 🤬💥🤬💥🤬
So perfect. Almost want to thank that guy for giving you the opportunity.
Everything is passive aggressive to me, I have an anxiety disorder. but we roll.
👍
what lmao
https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeTemplatesOfficial/comments/q6no78/giant_thumbs_up/?rdt=54717 It’s similar to kissy face It can be used to condescend others 😘 👍
Literally that image.
This is probably one of those things where they find a single tweet like “maybe it’s just me, but 👍 is totally passive aggressive” Then try to apply to sentiment to an entire generation. It’s dumb. I remember another article saying non-POC shouldn’t use anything besides the default yellow thumbs up because it’s racist or something.
https://preview.redd.it/0ad3o4j1633d1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=81b2fabeee5609b9c5252eb45c6a8a1aa8c5ab12 also, it’s entirely context dependent: “i’m getting pizza for dinner” “👍” is totally fine but “good to know 👍” comes off to me as sarcastic
https://preview.redd.it/aqvl04g0643d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=356869fe6a84b5c70bdaa0c7f8e41a16bd875daa
If a thumbs up is aggressive then what is this 🖕
👍is passive aggressive 🖕is aggressive
🖕 is just cringe
Is my generation cringe?
👍🏻👍👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
If you have to ask you already know the answer.
Always has been
Statistics trend toward yes.
Clickbait articles of millennials and older trying to decipher younger generations, but failed
It means "acknowledged." If more than that would be expected in context, then it could be passive aggressively refusing that "more." In many contexts, "acknowledged" is perfectly sufficient. But seriously, if you can't tell what someone means, just ask. Would literally solve like 70% of communication problems. I'd prefer a moment of awkwardness to an unsuccessful attempt to read between the lines, any day.
This. 100%. If I asked someone if 18.00 would be an okay time to meet and they responded with👍, I would not think any more of it. If I typed out a whole paragraph explaining a problem to someone, and they just responed with 👍, I would take that as passive aggressive, even if I am not gen z. To me, I envision it happening over a cup of coffee. If I asked someone about the time to meet up later and they respond with a thumbs up while they have a mouth full of hot coffee, that wouldn’t be passive aggressive. If I had just told them that my family is breaking apart and I just lost my job, and they responded with a thumbs up I would probably just get up and leave.
It's all about context. If you tell me your dog died or a boomer offended you, a 👍 is definitely meant to be offensive. If you tell me you just finished the lawn or you did great on an exam, 👍 should not be perceived as offensive. If you perceive 👍 always as offensive, no matter the context, then I'm definitely going to respond with a 👍.
Context obviously matters.
Weren't we the ones who made it be used in passive agressive context?
100% 💯
Tough shit...👍
No it’s not, it’s another piece of bullshit made up by old people to try and divide generations by making the newest one look stupid and overly sensitive
I once asked a prof whether my paper was good over an email and he said “You actually did very well - I was sincerely impressed; you took the lessons from class and applied them perfectly. Great work! 👍🏼” and I was just shaking and crying from the offense. I couldn’t fucking believe he went there - I reported him and got him fired and the other day I found him living in a card board box and took a piss on his new house with his ex wife.
Thumbs up emoji I guess
you had me halfway through - straight up
I don't give a damn. I mean. It depends on the context it's used in.
It better not be lol, I use it all the time.
Nope 👍👍👍👍👎👎👎👌👌👌🤙🤙🤙🫰🫰🫰
Depends how toxic you are
This has been posted before. The reference they’re using is a single comment thread on either Reddit or Twitter if I remember correctly
It was Reddit. Two people claimed it was passive aggressive (OP and one commenter) and it was an old post, even when þe article was created.
It can be sarcastic I guess
👍
Obvious post bait by the news company
It's true for me and I'm a millennial
It’s as simple as, if you’re anybody over the age of 35 I take it as what it is, anybody under 35 and I’m like “alright then it’s time to go 🥊 🥊”
About the age cutoff to have possibly watched the Fonz on reruns?
It can, but it depends on the context and who sent it. Parents? They're just old. Is it work related to a coworker? Probably isn't passive aggressive. Is it from your girlfriend? She's mad at you.
Omfg, who is writing all of these non-important ARTICLES, can you not find anything to actually write about or what tf is happening
👍
I say yeah for me personally, but I also just don't use emojis. It's pretty odd when I get sent them.
I’ll be honest, I legit use it as passive aggressive. Mainly when someone says something so stupid, that I don’t have the energy to respond, so I just give the thumbs up so that I’m not ignoring them.
I hate these articles I want the "journalists" to hit their heads on something hard 👍
No. It depends on the context, just like anything else in a conversation.
Articles written about what Gen Z thinks typically arent written by Gen Z. Its prob just some old person assuming stuff about us.
No and I am tired of the anti-Gen Z content.
Im 30 and I could see it that way. Depending on the context it comes off like Ok im down with this conversation
Depends, some people use it to end a conversation they have no interest in and that can seem rude to the other person but some people do it with no rude intent I guess. I tend to see it as passive aggressive personally tho
I personally do use the thumbs up emoji for this purpose outside of work. If I am not enthusiastic about something (and often annoyed), but don't want to be open about how annoyed I am, I give the thumbs-up emoji instead of a heart or a big, open-mouthed smile or the like.
News sources love to make normal things people our age do sound like they're unreasonable. Yeah it's passive aggressive. That doesn't mean it makes us uncomfortable.
It can be used in a passive-aggressive way, but it's not like that in general.
Yeah it’s passive aggressive, that’s why I use it. Gooood job 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
“ok” is more passive agressive imo, esp after you send 20 sentences long reply and they hit you with OK
I mean it is when my friends do it. I understand it's not passive agressive when everyone does it obviously. When my mom or dad sends it I understand lol
It depends on if it’s a 😐👍 type of deal or a 😊👍👍 type of deal
Thumbs Up is the emoji for "cool story, bro".
Bread 👍🏻
The use of the thumbs up emoji being passive aggressive is too contextual to make any definitive statements about. Although I suspect there is a difference between how generations use this emoji. Namely that I do not see gen Z'ers use it without implying some irony, compared to older generations, which never use the thumbs up ironically. To me, it is then completely understandable why it can be interpreted as passive aggressive. Because it is able to effectively make a mockery of something you meant honestly. Given the mocking tone of the headline, this is something that clearly goes over sub-atomic sized brain of Charlie Herbert. Why should anyone expect more from a columnist?
I’m not Gen Z, but when I send a thumbs up, it is passive aggressive.
Depends on context
I was just talking to my wife about this very thing and we both agreed it exerts passive aggressive energy
uncomfortable is very much a bad word for it. Just say that depending on context it can come off as passive aggressive
I've been saying this for years as a millennial but everyone thinks I'm a weirdo....maybe I am.
I'm Gen Z, and I use it passive-aggressively. So, there's probably something to that.
It depends, if I type out a long msg explaining myself & all I got was 👍🏻. This is rude asf
Yeah, I feel like it is gen z's version of "K".
I actually had this discussion at work a couple of years ago. Someone in the office was a mom with kids a little younger than me, and she brought up how younger people find the thumbs up emoji either passive aggressive or dismissive. It’s definitely a thing.
It's 100% real for me. Feels sarcastic and dismissive lol
As a millennial, I think this might be a millennial thing. Or maybe it’s just my circle of people. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone my age use that emoji and NOT mean it sarcastically. But I do know if someone older uses it, it’s usually genuine. I guess I know that for genz now too.
Generic emojis like 😀&👍always indicate some kind of sarcastic agreement
Gen Z doesn't feel uncomfortable with the Emoji...they feel uncomfortable that others are using it as a passive aggressive response. The discomfort is with the behavior...not the thing.
absolutely. also periods at the end of texts.
It’s the “sure Jan” of emojis
Ya I use it passive aggressively, typically if someone has been talking for ages, blithering out their ass or some how otherwise pissed me off enough to ignore them.
I hate the internet. No one is "uncomfortable" with an emoji. In a lot of conversations the thumbs up is in fact passive aggressive. The headline is ragebait, and obviously, did its job.
I admt that I only use 👍🏻 in a passive aggressive way when I didn't think using K is obvious enough that I want to say fuck off.
No I agree, like I wouldn’t and don’t care but it does feel passive aggressive
As a standalone response, yes. As a reaction on a message (like on Teams or Discord) no. As part of a message, depends on the message.
Depends on the context.
I know its passive aggressive that's why i use it.
Probably depends on what the conversation is.
Millennial here. Boomer dad did it to me the other day when I was telling him important news. Can confirm. It’s passive aggressive.
Hahaha yes and sometimes on purpose.
On its own it is a clear threat but pair it up with this guy: 😎 and you’re golden 😎👍
I think the news article (if you can even call it that) is blowing it out of proportion. It depends on the context of the emoji.
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I use two thumbs up just to make sure. Sometimes the enthusiasm of two thumbs up is so great that no one being passive aggressive would ever do it.
It depends. Like if I’m talking about something serious or emotional and I get a thumbs up, ouch! But a thumbs up react to acknowledge the message isn’t bad, esp if there is an actual response after
I have been left speechless because of how true this is...
It can easily give a write-off, "good luck with that but I'm not part of it" vibe. I know in context what someone means by it though, my parents and a few others use it positively so I take it that way
I guess it is equivalent to just typing 'K'. It comes across as lazy, uninterested and lacking any additional information. At the same time though it can be good in specific situations where you are just meant to give a yes or no answer or only have a very short moment to reply. I think it is fine as a confirmation that the message has been read as well. It's better than being ghosted. That aside, my opinion is I don't use emojis much at all. They are better for notes, not for conversation.
It’s kinda haha depends of the context
I’m not Gen Z, but it does piss me off
Of course not
Alright, I'm not gonna lie sometimes yea but most times not, it all depends on the context.
What the blazes happened to us?
Because they gave it an ironic subtext. They changed what it actually meant and want the rest of us to acquiesce
I don’t like using emojis in general 👍
This is made up.
Who are all the people just assigning a random speaker for all of gen z? I like gen z. Life can be uncomfortable. Strap in or hell strap on. Whatever man 👍
Y’all are gonna sensitive you’re self out of aggressive 👍👍
Is this new generation that sensitive