Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄

      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        21·
        16 days ago

        with gen a and z humor combined with your reply you get this:

        skibidi😎toilet🚽sigma😳male♂️ohio⚠️MLG⚗️9/11🗼🗼uwu🤭fortnite battlepass🤑mewing🤫 among us🏮

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    211·
    17 days ago

    Excessive emojis make reading difficult. It’s just as bad as posts. That. Are. Written. Like. This. My internal voice pauses for ever period, likewise, I have to interpret every inline emoji. It’s mentally tiring, and while forums like this aren’t formal, when I see abused emoji use, I instinctively write off a comment or post as juvenile and low quality. I’m more inclined to skip reading it entirely because of the extra effort required and my pre judgement of its contents.

    Tagging an emoji to the end or light use to help convey emotions is fine and intuitive. I personally like them for quick response and like you, to add a little more context to text where the “voice” may be missed.

    • deafboy@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 days ago

      We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can’t be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    31·
    17 days ago

    Using one or two occasionally to convey emotion or humor is one thing, but they’re neither words not punctuation marks. Using them as such is not just annoying, but actively disrupts the rhythm of the words you’re reading - especially if they’re plunked into the middle of a sentence or clause. It’s like saying “I love HEART cheeseburgers.” Go ahead, say it that way to somebody in person and see how they react.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.world
    281·
    16 days ago

    I see it as a laugh track in american sitcoms, trying to force me to feel something that isn’t on the actor’s performance.

  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
    41·
    17 days ago

    It definitely depends on the instance, but as a whole it’s probably a bit of carryover culture from the other place where emoji are not generally accepted.

  • kerthale@lemmy.world
    831·
    17 days ago

    My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.

  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
    15·
    16 days ago

    One thing I really hate is when people use that clap emoji between every word to try to solidify what they’re saying.

    Doing that, or saying “full stop”, etc. doesn’t make me trust what you’re saying more. Explain why what you’re saying is correct. Use words, logic, and sources.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      16 days ago

      use that clap emoji

      If people are clapping between words like pre-schoolers singing about Bingo the dog, it’s not accidental. It’s a last resort to prevent our phones auto-correcting everything to the phrase “you dumb motherfucker”.

      I agree, though – ‘full stop’ is just jargon and useless like ‘literally’.

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
    193·
    16 days ago

    Because this isn’t a Spot The Dog book, and we don’t need little picture of all the nouns.

    On their own they’re ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they’re completely redundant.

    What good does it do to say “I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch”?

    I’ll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    17 days ago

    1. At the font sizes I tend to view text in, I can read text clearly but emoji just look like blobs. The details are so small that ALL of the faces look like yellow circles.

    2. There are so many emoji, many of them with only slight differences between them, that they render each other meaningless.

    3. So many of them are being used as something else and keeping up with their actual meaning is just not worth the time.