The issue with colorful emojis is that they are represented differently on different platforms.
If you want to control what emoji the receiver of your message actually sees, you have to use ascii emojis :-)
The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
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Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#32> To find out the most confusing emojis in 2024, we at Preply took the top ten most confusing emojis from 2023 and surveyed respondents again about their meaning. We then used standard deviation to analyze answer choices to figure out which ones puzzle Americans the most. … how do you stddev on multiple choice…? But take the rank 2 emoji, "gust of wind"; I would say the top 3 choices are all pretty valid … depending…
Wonder why we can't have real "anatomical" emojis and have to resort to using eggplant like kids passing encoded messages?
Because while there are emoji conventions for user-specified colors, there are none for sizes.
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#33> To find out the most confusing emojis in 2024, we at Preply took the top ten most confusing emojis from 2023 and surveyed respondents again about their meaning. We then used standard deviation to analyze answer choices to figure out which ones puzzle Americans the most. … how do you stddev on multiple choice…? But take the rank 2 emoji, "gust of wind"; I would say the top 3 choices are all pretty valid … depending…
Wonder why we can't have real "anatomical" emojis and have to resort to using eggplant like kids passing encoded messages?
I don't think most people would want to use anatomical emoji in the first place. though there's always 8=D
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#34> To find out the most confusing emojis in 2024, we at Preply took the top ten most confusing emojis from 2023 and surveyed respondents again about their meaning. We then used standard deviation to analyze answer choices to figure out which ones puzzle Americans the most. … how do you stddev on multiple choice…? But take the rank 2 emoji, "gust of wind"; I would say the top 3 choices are all pretty valid … depending…
Wonder why we can't have real "anatomical" emojis and have to resort to using eggplant like kids passing encoded messages?
A well-written and well-sourced proposal might sway the Unicode Consortium. The 'powered on'/'powered off' characters come to mind as a successful recent attempt which did exactly that. Existing use of such 'text' (outside of Unicode) would make that bid a lot more likely to succeed though.
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#35> To find out the most confusing emojis in 2024, we at Preply took the top ten most confusing emojis from 2023 and surveyed respondents again about their meaning. We then used standard deviation to analyze answer choices to figure out which ones puzzle Americans the most. … how do you stddev on multiple choice…? But take the rank 2 emoji, "gust of wind"; I would say the top 3 choices are all pretty valid … depending…
Wonder why we can't have real "anatomical" emojis and have to resort to using eggplant like kids passing encoded messages?
There's already dicks in Unicode: https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#36>> rebelled-against emojis, meaning the emojis that people use for different meanings than what their title suggests they mean. The top emoji people don’t use as intended is the persevering face, with only 5% using it as intended and the majority using it to signify frustration I’m willing to bet money that less than 5% of the people using the Eggplant emoji actually mean eggplant.
Peach too
Unless they're in Georgia
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are helpful because they are unclear. There are cases where a bit of ambiguity is useful or you don't know exactly what to say. Face to face this can be solved with expressions, gestures etc. But in text form it's more difficult and emojis can help a bit.
> They are helpful because they are unclear. Except their usage is often too unclear for the recipient. If that praying emoji after a request means they are praying for me to fullfil it? Or they just namaste me? Or they need that request fulfilled because they highly depend on it? If someone tags my message with a clown emoji - does that message brought extreme joy to them or should I find them to talk face to face w…
I thought the praying emoji is a stand-in for thanking someone.
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#38> To find out the most confusing emojis in 2024, we at Preply took the top ten most confusing emojis from 2023 and surveyed respondents again about their meaning. We then used standard deviation to analyze answer choices to figure out which ones puzzle Americans the most. … how do you stddev on multiple choice…? But take the rank 2 emoji, "gust of wind"; I would say the top 3 choices are all pretty valid … depending…
> The thing about emoji is that they're highly contextual. Same with the flying money emoji. It's on the list as confusing, but it lists "gaining money, losing money, and transferring money" as 85% of meanings. Context clears up which one of those it is It clearly means "money is flying" but it leaves the direction of flight to context.
They're also sometimes culturally contextual. In China and quite possibly a lot of east Asia a smile emoji (https://emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face) very often means unhappiness-but-wish-to-avoid-a-confrontation and very often shows up in business contexts to pressure someone to do something. It is almost never used for genuine happiness.
It also surprises me that there is no good emoji for hugging. WeChat had to create a non-standard emoji for it and it is highly used. Especially when western culture far more normalizes platonic hugging, I would have expected 20 different hug emoji but they don't exist.
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#39>> rebelled-against emojis, meaning the emojis that people use for different meanings than what their title suggests they mean. The top emoji people don’t use as intended is the persevering face, with only 5% using it as intended and the majority using it to signify frustration I’m willing to bet money that less than 5% of the people using the Eggplant emoji actually mean eggplant.
Which is really a missed opportunity for U+130B8 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D052.
Re: The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
#40I"m surprised this doesn't include prayer hands/high-five emoji.