I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes…

On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis

So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? 😭

          • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
            4•7 months ago

            I wouldn’t be surprised. If you’re wondering, yes I’m on the spectrum. But I’ve also never seen eye-rolling used for sarcasm. It’s so much more obvious to make a statement sound insane or to use /s.

            Also, would most of the world even interpret that emoji as “eye rolling?”

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]English
              5•7 months ago

              Eye rolling is definitely a culturally-specific thing with the anglosphere, but the emoji is literally called “eye-roll” and does read visually as being that to someone familiar with the gesture.

              The added nuance here is that eye-rolling is an expression of derision and not just sarcasm, while culturally /s is used for being facetious (think friendly sarcasm) as well as actual sarcasm.

            • @qfjp@lemmy.one
              1•7 months ago

              It’s so much more obvious to make a statement sound insane or to use /s.

              Also, would most of the world even interpret that emoji as “eye rolling?”

              You only interpret ‘\s’ as sarcasm because of html and sarcasm beginning with the letter ‘s’. If you don’t think pictorial eye-rolling ‘looks’ like sarcasm, just consider it almost like hieroglyphs.

              • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
                1•7 months ago

                Where the hell did you get HTML from? /s is a tag literally made to denote that a given text is sarcastic. It’s one of the few good things to come out of Twitter.

                • @qfjp@lemmy.one
                  2•7 months ago

                  Where the hell did you get HTML from? /s is a tag literally made to denote that a given text is sarcastic. It’s one of the few good things to come out of Twitter?

                  …that is much older than Twitter:

                  This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of <\sarcasm>, the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a “sarcasm” block.

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator