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I have made a conscious commitment to stop all use of emojis. They seem innocent enough, but ultimately they're debasing language and limiting the range of free expression. For example, in 2018, most major platforms changed their revolver emojis to water gun icons, in an apparent attempt to "do something" about gun violence. This would be a laughable proposition if it didn't border on dystopian. We should not allow t…
It’s quite upsetting to know we had to opportunity to get a Frowning Pile of Poo emoji and it was rejected! The current poo emoji is too happy!
I feel like the entire emoji block should be made part of the supplementary/private use or similar. Leave what gets implemented up to Microsoft/ Apple/ Google to agree on. It's fallen completely out of scope of unicode's purpose of documenting used symbols and into a sort of editorialized control of what can cannot be said.
Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?
I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones. But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.
I think they're nice and help to add tone and context in an increasingly online workplace. The world is better because the director of my billion dollar project is able to heart react in the chat, not worse.
I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones. But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.
“This year’s proposals for new entries into the standard hieroglyphic dictionary include: slave being whipped, bearded slave being whipped, woman being humped by a donkey, and bearded donkey being ridden by a pregnant cat.”
I have made a conscious commitment to stop all use of emojis. They seem innocent enough, but ultimately they're debasing language and limiting the range of free expression. For example, in 2018, most major platforms changed their revolver emojis to water gun icons, in an apparent attempt to "do something" about gun violence. This would be a laughable proposition if it didn't border on dystopian. We should not allow t…
Whatever they do, it’s not that. Emojis allow for multivalence and useful ambiguity in ways that few words still have left in them.
From the perspectives of both communication and poetry, they’re a major boon to what’s now possible in written form.
Rage all you want, though. Talking about them like this helps sharpen our understanding of what they actually do.
I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good. A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize " tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Somet…