append āi believeā to the start of that and put it in the confession thread, you freak
(emojis are fun)
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theyāre a lossy shorthand. good and bad.
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Whatās the cool people method? Lol or lmao or something like that?
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I bought granny smith apples because of the fruit rankings and I admit I was wrong about them. I think I gave them a B tier, and these are A tier unless there was a higher tier than that. They were my favorite apple kind growing up and I had that childlike wonder beaten out of me somehow but now Iām back
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thereās a fruit ranking here!?
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I bought a keyboard that has a dedicated emoji shortcut button, so like, it brings up the little text searachable interface like on a phone. I still donāt use them that often but I like being able to emphasize a joke about a particular subject with an appropriate emoji 
also holy crap apparently it has a kaomoji interface too ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
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edit: I see I did have them as A tier. Well now theyāre S tier.
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oh iām so excited to do that!
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Repeating here that emoji were perfected by whatever designers were working for Google between Android 4.3 and 5.0 but then ruined by Appleās influence on the smartphone market.
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I still think of them as emoticons 
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Emoticons still have a place imo.
For example:
;) means something different than 
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Emoticons are just generally more kind and human-like
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also you can make this funny chef guy (0:=3
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I see a baboon or mandrill type monkey
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Theyāll never take emoticons from me. They can claw my <===3 from my cold dead hands.
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Itās interesting to think about why a more abstract representation of a person conveys a more sincere tone.
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Absolutely, I was joking but also I more or less meant it!
I think for me itās because emojis are often in a more corporate or marketable style, so it calls to mind obsequious attempts at being inoffensive and highly digestible. A product rather than an expression. It doesnāt help in that regard that different platforms (e.g. Android, Apple, etc.) have whole different sets of emojis, corporations separating themselves from each other in their little aesthetic fiefdoms.
Some of them are funny and have taken on a life of their own of course, but I think we can attribute that to internet culture and a little dash of irony and not really stemming from the emoji itself 
Perhaps thereās also something to be said about how the humble emoticon is so much more of a blank canvas to project oneās imagination on to. Like, if you have an overactive imagination for instance, you can see this obvious chef guy (0:=3 whose puffy tall chef hat is formed by the equal sign and 3 and he has a big bulbous nose like the Swedish chef, and somehow see a baboon or mandrill type monkey. The interpretive freedom an emoticon can grant you is downright hallucinatory
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Also with regards to the blank canvas aspect of emoticons, emoticons kinda feel closer to punctuation than like a shorthand for an emotion. Kinda like a ;) is a cheeky period more than a wink. So it feels like itās more directly communicative.
Whatās the etiquette when using an app that automatically converts ;) to ?
e.g. Slack