This Generation Has It Easy; Their Emojis Are Just Handed to Them

“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 7 points 3 months ago

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

Colour. Or lack of. They blend better into the text, I find the colourful emojis too distracting.
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.
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.
I'm a millennial. I grew up with the old style emoticons.

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Zachariah 7 points 3 months ago

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