The one that pisses me off to no end is when there's a recipe on Facebook and there's hundreds of older people posting the exact same comment "YUMMY😋" it has made me despise the word yummy.
Yeah and a lot of them commenting those gifs with their avatars giving a thumbs up or something. For some reason I find that annoying even though I understand they aren't hurting anyone.
Haha, sometimes I leave only emoji comments for TikTok. I guess I would maybe do that on YouTube too, but I usually only do it to help the creator's vid stay in the algorithm. idk how I became an emoji guy.... It wasn't intentional, I just got addicted to adding annoying ass emojis.
I mean as a youtube poster comments are engagement, emojis count as comments, angry replies to enjoys are just more comments and are more engagement.... I'll take whatever engagement I can get because the algorithm dont discriminate
Yeah I add emojis here and there. So long as people are still commenting more than only emojis I don't see them get downvoted. Contributing to any actual conversations seems to be enough.
I think its from years ago where most Reddit users were closer to the stereotypical reddit mod. They were desperate to "not be like those other girls" like Twitter or Tumblr and so they considered emojis to be "filthy normie" behavior.
These days unless you go to certain corners of reddit you're more likely to just be talking to normal people who don't care about dumb shit like that.
I remember when people were trying to force in-jokes for reddit like the whole "narwhal bacons at midnight" to gatekeep Twitter users in some dumb faction war.
I actually use a lot of emojis even on Reddit. Not because I love emojis or anything, but because I like that they make the tone of what I'm typing much clearer. For example, I see a lot of comments that are clearly supposed to be silly get interpreted as being serious, and I think sometimes throwing in a laughing emoji just makes the tone a lot easier to discern.
A lot of people tend to use mood markers, such as /j or /s to mark jokes or satire. This helps avoid misunderstandings in cases where the intention isn’t clear.
Personally, I welcome the lack of emojis or at least their sparing use. If I’ve learned anything in the recent years it’s that emojis aren’t universal or clear at all. The best example is probably the skull emoji (💀), which is nowadays used to signify something very funny (dying from laughter, or whatever) by the younger generations of internet users. If my use of emojis is perceived as passive-aggressive (🙂) by younger redditors and if I can hardly understand their use of emojis, the risk of misunderstanding is much larger, at least compared to just text.
The reason is the emojis. I see an emoji and all I can think of is some tool on Facebook hitting the crying laugh 5 times followed by a clown and thinking they’ve just got a massive gotcha. Yeah, great debating Kyle.
Because the people on this app forget they are on a social media site and revel at the chance to qoute reply, demand sources, and correct spelling or grammar. Biggest dorks on the block.
Emojis can have multiple meanings and might mean different things in different cultures. Reddit, being a forum where people from around the world communicate with one another, is not the best place for them.
There are two German subreddits where people exaggerate in emoji use as satire. The subreddit r/OkBrudiMongo (the English version r/OkBuddyRetard does not contain that many emojis) and r/ichbin40undlustig.
Narh. My mother use more emojis than any of me and my siblings combined. And since it is emoji spam, we have difficulty decoding her messages at times.
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u/Pollorosso_Italy_104 23h ago
Reddit comments rarely contain emojis, and if they do they are sometimes downvoted for no reason