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I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like π₯°) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
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Just to make some of you feel old: I'm gen Z and I'm 25.
Get off my lawn!
Thanks, I hate it!
Have you had your first wave of Gen Alpha trends and slang confuse you yet?
Not the person you're replying to, but in the same boat, and I for one dipped out at "yeet" and "yoink"
Wait, yoink? Like to snatch something up? That's at least 30 years old from the Simpsons.
Yoink is older than scoobie doo
Zoinks
Yeet is from the Vine era. Gen Alpha has more recent stuff. You know, the whole "skibidi ohio fanum tax amogus rizzler fortnite gyat" thing.
yeah i have no idea what most of those words mean. i only know that "rizz" is a short for charisma, and that gyat means a nice ass, probably
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Not a gen Z but I'm actually a fan of both of those words. It's like a forceful put or get.
It's like a forceful put or get.
Now I kind-of want HTTP verbs for those.
YEET /api/v1/submit HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/json
...
YOINK /api/v1/list HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: application/json
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I am still in school and it confuses me already.
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Just to make some of you feel older, Iβm gen z and Iβm 26
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Can someone explain?
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
Eh, it is when the "childhood" age ends and development stabilizes for a bit before declining, close enough for shitposts.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a βold(er) personβ thing?
Iβve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called βironicβ among my kids and their friends, so Iβm not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
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Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
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Using π feels very millennial/gen x.
Frontal lobes are cool but all that white matter you grow in your 30s is where the good shit happens
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