Gen Z
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Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a “old(er) person” thing?
I’ve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called “ironic” among my kids and their friends, so I’m not sure they know what ironic even means.
Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used
etc?Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
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Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
They start a Skype call so they can show you live how much it made them laugh
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I just use that shit cause it's the first thing that pops up, if I have to choose, this is the one I use for everything.
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I guess we are too old for this shit to even matter. I mean we lived to see the OG emoji invented, there was no ironic or non ironic way to use it. And there was only one.
The OG emoji were ascii.
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The OG emoji were ascii.
I know. I meant the original smiley.
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I know. I meant the original smiley.
Gotcha
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The scariest part is how many I've caught using
as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
Solid evidence for your case because it's clearly an amused smirk
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Like actually?
Despite the snarky response you got from someone else, yes, white matter grows in your 30s. Gray matter is what makes the thoughts white matter is the highway they use to get around, so white matter actually has a very significant impact on the brain. It’s being considered as a possible cause so many people have a “mid life crisis” because their brains are actively changing how they think and connect things together
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Solid evidence for your case because it's clearly an amused smirk
My boss uses
and 🥵 in our work group chat sometimes. Like, bruv -
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
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I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like 🥰) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
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My boss uses
and 🥵 in our work group chat sometimes. Like, bruvFreaky ahh boss
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"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
Eh, it is when the "childhood" age ends and development stabilizes for a bit before declining, close enough for shitposts.
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I just use that shit cause it's the first thing that pops up, if I have to choose, this is the one I use for everything.
The slanted eyes emoji
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The slanted eyes emoji
I envision him as skeptical
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I envision him as skeptical
That's a... peculiar way to view it. I like it.
