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  • Before us millenials had our own take at inventing initialisms and proto emojis…

    Beepers. Pagers.

    A fair number of different kinds of ‘codes’ became at least somewhat widely used as shorthand for more semantically complex things, and they had even smaller character limits.

    https://www.wikihow.com/Pager-Codes

    Now I was like 5 when pagers were all the rage, so I have no personal experience with these, but this was arguably the gen x version of millenials who spent too much time on computers as children coming up with ‘gtfo’ and ‘lmao’ and ‘rofl’ and such.




  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPost title lol
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    6 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.




  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPost title lol
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    9 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.




  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldFuck
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    8 hours ago

    Its ok to just laugh in someone’s face and call them an uneducated idiot, who has no idea what they’re talking about.

    You know how just can ban/block morons on social media, so you don’t have to hear from them any more?

    You do can that in real life too.