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.
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
cloudstiktok, its probablycloud’stiktok’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.
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
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.