“Today’s youth don’t know what it’s like to stare at the keyboard for hours, picturing which combination of symbols would make a flirty face that’s not too f...
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    14 小时前

    For real, I like old style emoticons way better than emojis. For a few reasons:

    1. Colour. Or lack of. They blend better into the text, I find the colourful emojis too distracting.
    2. Mix-and-match. The author mentions this with different words, but: you aren’t bound to a specific set of icons, you create your own.
    3. More platform-agnostic. Every single corporation out there has a package with a different set of emojis, and what they convey might change because of those differences.
    4. I’m a millennial. I grew up with the old style emoticons.