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> have no idea what roughly half the emojis meant, I really honestly am curious which ones confused you

• AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  Probably most of them. The big problem with emoji is that there are a ludicrous number of them, like kanji, but unlike kanji most of them have no agreed upon semantic meaning, so everything but the basics and things that are just graphics of some every day object have meaning determined by intuition and culture.
• at_a_remove 6y ago
  The faces are easy enough, although some are a little odd. It's all of the other stuff that seemed a bit baffling. I can't remember particular instances now, I just flushed the specifics away into the "well, I guess this is somehow easier than words for some people who also simultaneously expect that I just know this, so if it is important they aren't doing a great job conveying it" memory hole.
• akiselev 6y ago
  The eggplant and all the euphemistic emojis that go with it, eye roll emojis which are so inconsistent between platforms they range from "looking at the text above" to "I'm high AF get me outta here", and most of the anger emojis which range from "gritted teeth" to "Jack Nicholson in the Shining". Just recently figured out what the Slack :tada: emoji is and it's an upside down birthday hat with confetti coming out of it which only became visible when I used a low res monitor - tada! Wouldn't have made any sense without explicit text or blown up vector graphics. I've been using smartphones since I was a teenager and the internet since the turn of the century so I grew up without the benefit of unicode emoji. Like a sibling said, they're kanji except the cultural context that defines them is extremely fluid (and prone to flights of fancy by designers looking to get promoted).
  • stevula 6y ago
    People use the eggplant emoji on Slack at your work? It’s usually a phallic symbol.