Microblog Memes @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I think they're nailing it

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This is so sad, it makes me cry a lot 😂😂
I think your parents are trying to teach you
They seem to be using them correctly to me 🫁🤹
- Gen Z uses💀to mean laughing from what I understand.
  
  Wait, what? I tought that it's more like awkward situation type of emoji.
You've got two generations present.

One for whom emoji happened well into adulthood, and they start tacking them on awkwardly and redundantly.

One for whom emoji has always been almost as accessible as the latin alphabet, and touchscreen keyboards are so shit that emoji themselves become slang for concepts that they're only obliquely related to.
- There's a middle. I still use emoticons and completely reject emojis. All ASCII all the time.
  
  I exclusively use rage comic memes to express myself. Does that date me? Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
  
  :D
  
  Same. It’s just more natural to me
  
  Legend
  
  O7
- Yes. And there's a younger generation (Gen Alpha) using slangs such as "👁️👄👁️" as a synonym for "😮" (if I understood correctly, because I'm not Alpha, I'm Zennial).
  
  From what I've seen, 👁️👄👁️ is more like "focused on watching this", but I'm even older, so maybe I'm misunderstanding.
RIP In Peace Uncle Mark
Okay now they need to write a eulogy entirely in emojis.
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Mark that one down. 💀
The message would be better and more sympathetically conveyed without any emoji, but if you have to have one, this seems appropriate.
o7
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"I'm too old for this shit"
Oh dear. Imagine if they figure out how to use mene-GIFS next.
- coffin dance gif
  
  Your uncle is in it.

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