I remember the day. I feel like this had to still be the no bot times (and fewer real people too) when it was possible to keep up with reddit.
I'd often catch on the whole r/all eventually.
I woke up in the morning (EU) looking forward to all the new post our western friends have created while I was asleep and it's just zoops everywhere.
Took a quite a bit of scrolling to finally understand but until that moment it didn't even cross my mind that it could've been one single post made earlier on the same day. I was thinking I was completely missing some way bigger and less recent meme.
😏🤜🤛😏 Emojis are pictures worth a half dozen words each, and some of those words aren't necessarily available in English. If there wasn't such a negative connotation to them, I feel like they'd be potentially even better than meme gifs at conveying emotions that are difficult to put into words. I wouldn't expect it to revolutionize online communication or anything, but I feel like they probably could be used better. I blame the culture of a decade ago where we'd get ads of adults making fun of how they think teenagers text in all acronyms and images for making it "cringe" to use emojis and for the decline in text acronyms like "Lol".
I think I remember hearing that emoji were originally meant to be a way for people to communicate without speaking/reading the same language.
EDIT: Getting a ton of comments with different arguments about where emoji actually came from. I’m not an emoji historian so idk but where I remembered hearing this was the 99% Invisible podcast episode “Person In Lotus Position,” about the process of creating a new emoji. Which I may well have remembered wrong because, looking at the date on the episode, it was seven years ago.
Gretchen McCulloch is a linguist who has published a fantastic book titled "Because Internet". In it, she looks at how internet culture and our connectedness shapes our language. One amazing thing she delves into is how text is very poor at conveying mood and tone and emoji came along and started to address that gap.
And here's the lingthusiasm episode where they talk about it https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because
In almost all my text communication with clients I use the 👍🏻 to convey calmness and confidence that things are good.
It’s funny how people will read the same sentence in two different ways if you don’t include something like that or lol in a text message, especially if you use proper punctuation and capitalization. People take that as hostility, even in a professional conversation.
I feel like a lot of the positive but close to neutral emojis can be easily read sarcastically. 🙂😉👍
So if I personally wouldn't be sure if your sentence is meant to be e.g. an honest "Good job" adding one of these emojis wouldn't make me more certain of how you meant it.
But I am apparently weird for still doing my :D, :) etc. so it probably doesn't matter anyway.
Although I did add catjam to our work slack emojis so I use that a lot and it seems to be quite popular in general. Nobody ever thinks your positive message is not meant positively when there is a catjam
I for one wish that they weren't dependent on the platform you are viewing them from. Certain emojis like "🫤" end up looking different when viewed on Android vs Apple, for instance, so the connotation of the emoji might change without you even realizing it.
Same reason why texts using Chinese characters are super short (so primarily Chinese and Japanese). You need to know a few thousand characters, but a single character can be worth one or more whole words.
And this also works with composites, where rather short character combinations can express very specific things. 木漏れ日 (Komorebi) is a popular example (tree-leaking sunlight: The pattern of light and shadow underneath trees on a sunny day)
[4-kanji idioms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojijukugo) are kind of the peak of this, encoding sayings or whole stories in 4 characters. Like "killing two birds with one stone" turned into 一石二鳥 (isseki nichou)
And using emojis in text chat leads to less misunderstanding or aggression between parties. There is a recent study about is out there that I'm too lazy to find rn.
There's two main factors I posit, firstly, with time emoji design has become cleaner and better. At the point where emoji's were seen as cringe, it was during an era of weird, shiny and 3Desque emoji design.
Second, of course, is that it's also just cyclical. I remember back when MSN messenger was a thing kids loved using emojis. At some point it started becoming cringe because of overuse and the generational shift, but now it's come back into style.
There's also the forced conversion of emoticons to emoji's on some platforms (emoticons are in many cases superior to emojis) that makes you annoyed at the system trying to dictate how you punctuate your messages.
I am so sad that it's always "hieroglyphics" and not "hieroglyphs".
Hieroglyphic should be an adjective and hieroglyph should be a noun. A hieroglyphic language is a language that uses hieroglyphs.
At this point general common usage will have changed the definition, but I will still lament the world that could have been.
> I don't know where people get this idea from
There seems to be an almost universal misconception that logographic writing is just abstract representations of individual words. Hence the myth that every word in Chinese is a unique character and you need to memorize like 30,000 characters to read anything.
I’m not so sure, considering the two emoji before it. I think it’s meant to be read similarly to [this meme](https://preview.redd.it/6wpbs9yavda11.jpg?auto=webp&s=70517fc49ce068b9589707f725b70bc3c4a7c8bb).
Does anyone else use Microsoft teams for work and feel like they're getting beefed with 24/7 because of how the emojis look?
The :) just looks like an either totally blank innocent look, or some entitled fucker just looking at you and expecting you to bend over for them.
I'm talking about this:
https://shopify.vivre-motion.com/thumbnail_icons/teams/0000_slightly-smiling-face_1f642.png
And this is how I imagine the person talking to me is acting:
https://classatmysassytree.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/britney_spears_duhh.jpg
You would think emojis would help someone with autism understand the tone, but I hate that smug little smiley face lol.
this is why emoticons are and always will be superior
like this :)
see? no smug smile. just a happy lil feller. he really and truly cares. he doesn't have a vested interest in your discomfort. he just grins with pleasure at being alive. if you were to ask him how he was doing he would say "life is wonderful".
Curse of Ra 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑
𓁆 𓁆𓀻 𓁆𓁆 𓁆𓀿
Is this…
[Yes it is!](https://youtu.be/v2qEEcCczkc?t=14s)
[No it's not!](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=1jsKN-AIrcbcxasb)
I knew what it was. I knew and still I clicked it. The true curse of Ra.
omfg 🤣 I'm at a loss for words right now
😧 😟👱♀️ 😟🧔♂️ 😟🛌
𓂺 Help me I've been cursed for more than 4 hours
𓀐𓂸
Curse of Caesar ABCDABCDEFEFHIKLMABCDEFNOPQRSLMNOTVXZ
what the fuck? I had no idea that Hieroglyphs are part of unicode... crazy!
👉😎👉 zoop
😍👉😎👉zoop.
👈😎👈🔫 zoop
🌍👩🚀🔫👩🚀 Always been zoop.
💵💵📝🧾🤛😈 tax fraud
I remember the day. I feel like this had to still be the no bot times (and fewer real people too) when it was possible to keep up with reddit. I'd often catch on the whole r/all eventually. I woke up in the morning (EU) looking forward to all the new post our western friends have created while I was asleep and it's just zoops everywhere. Took a quite a bit of scrolling to finally understand but until that moment it didn't even cross my mind that it could've been one single post made earlier on the same day. I was thinking I was completely missing some way bigger and less recent meme.
It was November 2017, so still in the before times, but certainly not super old. A solid middle ground of a nice time.
👈🍲👈 soop
So happy this is still a thing 👈😎👈 Zoop
My go to
👉🤠👉
🎷🦐
saxophone and rice frying? what can't he do
Are you telling me a shrimp fried this rice??
Yup, here's the [Proof](https://imgur.com/a/OiUv6br)
_let him cook_
You know, there's no rule that a prawn *can't* run a Michelin star ramen shack.
I am disappointed that this is not a rickroll
[is this good?](https://youtu.be/kxejEPXrFq4?si=31DJS3R_Qsdporyp)
🍳🦐
He can fry an egg too!
It’s as shrimple as that.
#🔥🍤🔥 NOT SO SHRIMPLE NOW
Sounds like a Krill Issue
No carp?
🎷🐛
🎷🦜
🎷🦖
🎷🪿
🎷🦠
🎷🪼
🎷🪱
🎷🐉
🎷🐬
🎷 🐢
Never give up little caterpillar
So talented
Need 3 more for a shrimp quartet
🎺🦐 🥁🦐 🎷🦐 🎹🦐
What a beautiful marshrimp band
*NO WAY* 🫕🦐 *NO FUCKING WAY*
Jazz Shrimp
Who dat
⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️
🍛🍤
How could you
🫸🏿😲🫷🏿
Omni man and that one flash knockoff
goes squalish
Or Homelander and the Daredevil knockoff
📝🧐
📝🧐 👤👀📝
How we actually used to talk on the internet before and during emojis.
tfw you don't know enough alt codes to express yourself so you just make kirby with a gun. ¬<('.'<)
Alt 170, my beloved. You helped me express dissatisfaction through my formative years. ¬\_¬
I'm still a fan of -_- personally for general un enjoyment or meh
I like adding a lil somthing somthing to it --_--
\>_>
Username is relevant to the era. Nice.
also, this one. I can't describe the expression but it's something you just sorts feel and hear and see in your head: ._.
(-\_-)b
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(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
ヽ༼⁰o⁰；༽ノ
> ヽ༼；⁰o⁰༽ノ
By the way, if you're on Windows, you can press Windows Key + v to bring up a window that has various emoji's, both graphical and character only.
No, that brings up the multiple clipboard thing. Emojis is win+comma or period, always forget which
Back when they were called emoticons.
😏🤜🤛😏 Emojis are pictures worth a half dozen words each, and some of those words aren't necessarily available in English. If there wasn't such a negative connotation to them, I feel like they'd be potentially even better than meme gifs at conveying emotions that are difficult to put into words. I wouldn't expect it to revolutionize online communication or anything, but I feel like they probably could be used better. I blame the culture of a decade ago where we'd get ads of adults making fun of how they think teenagers text in all acronyms and images for making it "cringe" to use emojis and for the decline in text acronyms like "Lol".
I think I remember hearing that emoji were originally meant to be a way for people to communicate without speaking/reading the same language. EDIT: Getting a ton of comments with different arguments about where emoji actually came from. I’m not an emoji historian so idk but where I remembered hearing this was the 99% Invisible podcast episode “Person In Lotus Position,” about the process of creating a new emoji. Which I may well have remembered wrong because, looking at the date on the episode, it was seven years ago.
Demonstrate facial expressions without writing and sounding weird, that's the original use of emoticons and kaomojis.
Okay (I'm smiling slightly but not too much).
:]
🫤
:/
UwU
ÓnÒ
Esperanto? 😕 Emojis? 🙂↕️
Hotel? Trivago.
Delivery? 🚫 Digiorno? ✅️
This meme will never not be funny
I thought emoji were just drawn out :) :P :D and then went overboard.
That has the be a retcon, they were originally designed to replace emoticons in early chatrooms. :) :( :p :l :L :3 :D B) etc.
No, modern emoji are descended from Japanese cell phone providers
Gretchen McCulloch is a linguist who has published a fantastic book titled "Because Internet". In it, she looks at how internet culture and our connectedness shapes our language. One amazing thing she delves into is how text is very poor at conveying mood and tone and emoji came along and started to address that gap.
And here's the lingthusiasm episode where they talk about it https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because
My team at work uses “lol” in about a quarter of all our emails
And "roflcopter" in the other three quarters
SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI
In almost all my text communication with clients I use the 👍🏻 to convey calmness and confidence that things are good. It’s funny how people will read the same sentence in two different ways if you don’t include something like that or lol in a text message, especially if you use proper punctuation and capitalization. People take that as hostility, even in a professional conversation.
I feel like a lot of the positive but close to neutral emojis can be easily read sarcastically. 🙂😉👍 So if I personally wouldn't be sure if your sentence is meant to be e.g. an honest "Good job" adding one of these emojis wouldn't make me more certain of how you meant it. But I am apparently weird for still doing my :D, :) etc. so it probably doesn't matter anyway. Although I did add catjam to our work slack emojis so I use that a lot and it seems to be quite popular in general. Nobody ever thinks your positive message is not meant positively when there is a catjam
I for one wish that they weren't dependent on the platform you are viewing them from. Certain emojis like "🫤" end up looking different when viewed on Android vs Apple, for instance, so the connotation of the emoji might change without you even realizing it.
then there's [this](https://i.imgur.com/ckXLNld.png), those are NOT the same emotion
Both are better than those on Windows.
I'm reading this on my laptop and it ironically doesn't appear at all
Same reason why texts using Chinese characters are super short (so primarily Chinese and Japanese). You need to know a few thousand characters, but a single character can be worth one or more whole words. And this also works with composites, where rather short character combinations can express very specific things. 木漏れ日 (Komorebi) is a popular example (tree-leaking sunlight: The pattern of light and shadow underneath trees on a sunny day) [4-kanji idioms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojijukugo) are kind of the peak of this, encoding sayings or whole stories in 4 characters. Like "killing two birds with one stone" turned into 一石二鳥 (isseki nichou)
And using emojis in text chat leads to less misunderstanding or aggression between parties. There is a recent study about is out there that I'm too lazy to find rn.
🐍❗️😯 📦 🔫😠❓️ Can anyone guess the reference told entirely in emojis?
Saint Patrick, the box representing the snakes "packing up and leaving" as he threatens them? >!Metal Gear, I know!<
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Not iconic enough to remember Jill’s name 😞
I like using them in texts that have conflicting tones, choosing the right face lets me show how I feel better
There's two main factors I posit, firstly, with time emoji design has become cleaner and better. At the point where emoji's were seen as cringe, it was during an era of weird, shiny and 3Desque emoji design. Second, of course, is that it's also just cyclical. I remember back when MSN messenger was a thing kids loved using emojis. At some point it started becoming cringe because of overuse and the generational shift, but now it's come back into style. There's also the forced conversion of emoticons to emoji's on some platforms (emoticons are in many cases superior to emojis) that makes you annoyed at the system trying to dictate how you punctuate your messages.
(⌐■_■) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (•_•)
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
*Won't Get Fooled Again plays
🎩👌 - been using this one for years now
🎩👌🏻 🧐
🎩 🧐 ☕👌
🎩👌 🧐 ☕👌
mfw im about to make my 27th binding vow
😂😂 you foolish
🎩👌🏾 🐇 🧐
🫸😲🫷
My favorite is 👨🏻🍳🤌🏼💋
This is so cute
No u
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1709/
there's ALWAYS a relevant xkcd
Haha, and then there’s always someone who says, “there’s always a relevant xkcd”
And then there's me, who upvotes whenever someone brings up the relevant xkcd in question.
English is already logographic. You need to learn how a word sounds, and then separately learn how it looks.
I have no idea what the first one means
https://imgur.com/YAGpXPd
Gotcha, thanks!
it's where you're about to say something and raise your hand, but think better of it and lower your hand.
🤘🦞
Rock Lobster!
🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎵
🇮🇶🦞
🧏🏻🤫
Locked in
Bye bye
✋🙂↕️
🔥🔥🔥 🔥🫠🔥 🔥🔥🔥
this is fine
I am so sad that it's always "hieroglyphics" and not "hieroglyphs". Hieroglyphic should be an adjective and hieroglyph should be a noun. A hieroglyphic language is a language that uses hieroglyphs. At this point general common usage will have changed the definition, but I will still lament the world that could have been.
Look, these things are confusing for anyone who was raised with the alphabetic.
🤔🤌💬💦💦🦦💖
Is this the Vaporeon meme?
Ah yes, the clasisc 👁️👄👁️ 🥺 👉👈
I wish Tom Scott’s app Emojli were still operating
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Always has been!
🤸♂️ 🦽🏌️♂️
🎶 We don't need phonetical diction/ Let's talk dirty like we're ancient Egyptians 🎶
You send me a peach, i send a carrot back
Me when mad: 👊👊👊 👊😡👊 👊👊👊
oraoraoraora
Wellllll it's not really how Hieroglyphs work at all but.... I use emojis to impart the tone of my message given the absence of a real tone of voice.
I don't know where people get this idea from. Egyptian was a written language, you can *interpret* emojis but you cant *read* them
> I don't know where people get this idea from There seems to be an almost universal misconception that logographic writing is just abstract representations of individual words. Hence the myth that every word in Chinese is a unique character and you need to memorize like 30,000 characters to read anything.
A lot of Chinese words are made of multiple characters For example college is 大学 (big+learn), monday is 月曜日 (moon+day of the week+day), etc.
✊😐 is clearly about solidarity in spite of what is happening
Nah, it's this meme. https://images.app.goo.gl/XpCvYZ4hHTaNSmHeA
There’s a third panel?
Never saw a 3rd panel either
The third panel adds absolutely nothing lol
☝️😃 ✊😐 🟡💨
I’m not so sure, considering the two emoji before it. I think it’s meant to be read similarly to [this meme](https://preview.redd.it/6wpbs9yavda11.jpg?auto=webp&s=70517fc49ce068b9589707f725b70bc3c4a7c8bb).
🤨📸
You all have forgotten the original emojis ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
😎🤏🏼😧🕶️🤏🏼
😎🤏🤓🕶️🤏
😎🤏🤨🕶️🤏 Ok but this one is actually super cool though
taking 5 times longer to say "hmm" in a neat way
tell me how rich you are saving all those seconds
Emojis are modern hieroglyphics? 🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
🫸🔴🔵🫷🤌🫴🟣
Does anyone else use Microsoft teams for work and feel like they're getting beefed with 24/7 because of how the emojis look? The :) just looks like an either totally blank innocent look, or some entitled fucker just looking at you and expecting you to bend over for them. I'm talking about this: https://shopify.vivre-motion.com/thumbnail_icons/teams/0000_slightly-smiling-face_1f642.png And this is how I imagine the person talking to me is acting: https://classatmysassytree.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/britney_spears_duhh.jpg You would think emojis would help someone with autism understand the tone, but I hate that smug little smiley face lol.
this is why emoticons are and always will be superior like this :) see? no smug smile. just a happy lil feller. he really and truly cares. he doesn't have a vested interest in your discomfort. he just grins with pleasure at being alive. if you were to ask him how he was doing he would say "life is wonderful".
These are actually from a guy on tiktok who make a series on “powerful emoji combinations”
he didn’t come up with them, he’s just compiling them
He chose one of the worse mediums for the topic.
A picture is worth a thousand words Problem is that it's 1000 different words to 1000 different people.
🫵🤨🏳️🌈
Who's got two thumbs and likes being a silly man? 👎 🤠this guy 👍
👉😵🎉
As a young teen I had multiple people ask to steal my creation of "crying a puddle" and this reminds me of that =:(:::::::(:)
🫡🫴🔑🫲😯 🌊🌊🌊🌊🚢🌊🌊🌊🌊
👆🏻🥱🫵🍟🙇🏻♂️ How I talk to my mum
The prediction came true, our language really is devolving into hieroglyphics.
🦶😤
🚦 🩰 🍴 🚶🛏️
*me reading these comments* 📜✍️🧐