• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I genuinely do not know, but I keep running into that, where they just use the crying emoji and they tell me it means they’re laughing so hard they cried (not literally of course but w/e)… even though there actually is a laughing-crying emoji.

      I’m going to yell at clouds tiktok, its probably cloud’s tiktok’s fault, somehow.

      EDIT:

      like, I tell a joke, they respond with a crying emoji, I am confused and apologetic because I think I hurt their feelings and they are just sad crying… nope.

      Nope they actually liked the joke.

      This has happened to me a number of times in the last 6-9 months, with different people.

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        I am actually gen z and the “😂” has simply become cringe because older people overused it so much and I guess that’s why we switched to “😭”

        It’s also interesting to me how you still see it as crying because my brain just doesn’t make that connection at all anymore

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          I genuienly appreciate the explanation, that makes sense.

          2 reasons unc here sees them similarly:

          A ) I barely ever use emojis

          Many millennials grew up using

          *-*

          =D

          :<

          0.0

          >=[

          … style constructions to represent emotions / facial expressions in text.

          I’m used to those, I’m not used to emojis.

          B ) I’m just actually slowly losing visual acuity.

          I’m getting oooollldddd.

          I’ve got an astigmatism now, and I tend to only wear my glasses when I absolutely need to.

          So I have to squint or put on my glasses to make out variations in emojis, sometimes.