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I'm not criticizing you when you say that you need stickers, but please help me understand: how do you rely on stickers to communicate? I can understand them b

by tuxxy 9y ago

I'm not criticizing you when you say that you need stickers, but please help me understand: how do you rely on stickers to communicate? I can understand them being a nice UI/UX feature that makes the app more fun, but I cannot possibly imagine that people actually rely on stickers to communicate. Maybe you mean something different and I'm misunderstanding you?

mintplant 9y ago
Not me as an individual, but various communities I'm in contact with have stickers ingrained into their culture and social norms. People collect up to hundreds of stickers for different situations, make their own based on shared iconography, and some even have custom stickers commissioned from artists, of themselves, of characters they've created, etc. For groups that are really invested in stickers, migrating to an app which lacks them would significantly alter their dynamics.
pieterhg 9y ago
You don't understand. I live for stickers on Telegram. It's an essential part of communication for millions. This is not a joke. Especially in Asia
pas 9y ago
To succinctly convey emotions, opinions, viewpoints, "feels". To simply have a non-verbal vocabulary, to have a different quality to certain parts of the communication, to signify a different quality of seriousness/playfulness/feeling. It's the new emoticon. :-)
- NMDaniel 9y ago
  So basically emojis?
  - mintplant 9y ago
    Sure, if emojis could be infinitely extended with arbitrary images and were sent as their own messages instead of being embedded inline with other text. Replying to another message with a sticker also fills the role played by reactions on Facebook Messenger.
- skybrian 9y ago
  I'm curious, are they used anything like memes that you can easily send more than once?
  - wingerlang 9y ago
    Not sure what you mean by "like memes". They are just funny images with thousands of variations that you can send. If you're going to sleep - send something cute that shows it. Some examples http://www.line-stickers.com/ http://www.line-stickers.com/
- synaesthesisx 9y ago
  The only thing I could see that would potentially top this would be talking animated emoji....The feces one comes to mind specifically
  - pas 9y ago
    It it talks, it takes too much time to parse, and it becomes too specific. Pictures, maybe with a max 0.5 sec animation are okay, and no sound. (At least that's my hunch.)
literallycancer 9y ago
I use some of them to communicate moods, or recurring ideas that are bothersome to enunciate over text. E.g. these: https://stickers.acidodivertido.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lazy-Panda-Telegram-Stickers-stickers.acidodivertido.com_.png https://stickers.acidodivertido.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

by tuxxy 9y ago

mintplant 9y ago

Not me as an individual, but various communities I'm in contact with have stickers ingrained into their culture and social norms. People collect up to hundreds of stickers for different situations, make their own based on shared iconography, and some even have custom stickers commissioned from artists, of themselves, of characters they've created, etc. For groups that are really invested in stickers, migrating to an app which lacks them would significantly alter their dynamics.

pieterhg 9y ago

You don't understand. I live for stickers on Telegram. It's an essential part of communication for millions. This is not a joke. Especially in Asia

pas 9y ago

To succinctly convey emotions, opinions, viewpoints, "feels". To simply have a non-verbal vocabulary, to have a different quality to certain parts of the communication, to signify a different quality of seriousness/playfulness/feeling. It's the new emoticon. :-)

NMDaniel 9y ago
So basically emojis?
- mintplant 9y ago
  Sure, if emojis could be infinitely extended with arbitrary images and were sent as their own messages instead of being embedded inline with other text. Replying to another message with a sticker also fills the role played by reactions on Facebook Messenger.
skybrian 9y ago
I'm curious, are they used anything like memes that you can easily send more than once?
- wingerlang 9y ago
  Not sure what you mean by "like memes". They are just funny images with thousands of variations that you can send. If you're going to sleep - send something cute that shows it. Some examples http://www.line-stickers.com/ http://www.line-stickers.com/
synaesthesisx 9y ago
The only thing I could see that would potentially top this would be talking animated emoji....The feces one comes to mind specifically
- pas 9y ago
  It it talks, it takes too much time to parse, and it becomes too specific. Pictures, maybe with a max 0.5 sec animation are okay, and no sound. (At least that's my hunch.)

literallycancer 9y ago

I use some of them to communicate moods, or recurring ideas that are bothersome to enunciate over text. E.g. these: https://stickers.acidodivertido.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lazy-Panda-Telegram-Stickers-stickers.acidodivertido.com_.png https://stickers.acidodivertido.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...