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The meaning can also be inferred from… the face.

chungy 4y ago
If I zoom in, maybe. At default text sizes, it's indistinguishable from all other emoji faces for me.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Judging just from that, I'd have taken the meaning as "verge of crying" or "my pet just unexpectedly died" Until I read that comment I was having real trouble figuring out WTF it had to do with running commands. I thought it might be some practical joke tool that automatically modifies your commands such that they'll make you sad when they run.
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Google “puppy dog eyes”. Don’t get why we have to bust out all the cringe internet lingo to describe something that you see in that venerable “real world”.
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  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    It doesn't read that way to me. Maybe it's an emoji-font difference (I'm on Mac). [EDIT] I mean I see it once someone points it out, but that'd have been lucky to make my top-5 guesses otherwise.
  - warent 4y ago
    people have different perceptions, interpretations, and understandings of things. Your comment comes across as pretty insulting. clear communication is necessary and helpful
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  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    Would like to note that I happened to see someone I know use this over the weekend and it was unambiguously intended as the "verge of crying" meaning I guessed previously, not "puppy dog eyes". LOL.
- obloid 4y ago
  I also interpreted it as eyes watering up on the verge of crying.
readthenotes1 4y ago
Feeling yellow and looking down? No idea what that's supposed to mean
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Looking up.
  - chungy 4y ago
    Depending on font. Inside my web browser, it appears to be looking up. On my web browser's title bar (so rendered by my window manager...), it appears to be looking down, or maybe straight forward. Fonts make a big difference on interpretation too. I remember a few years back, there was a problem where Apple implemented "GRINNING FACE" in such a way that Apple users interpreted it as a sarcasm indicator, but most others would look just like a standard smiling face, leading to quite a number of awkward exchanges when non-Apple users would read things such as "Yes, let's burn it all down :)" instead of "Yes, let's burn it all down :|"
    - avgcorrection 4y ago
      Huh. That’s weird. A looking down variant sounds misleading.
      - chungy 4y ago
        If you think that's weird, compare it between common fonts: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/full-emoji-list.html#1f97a https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/full-emoji-list.html#1... Disregarding the "browser" column (could be anything, it's what your browser renders the text as), only the Twitter font has the "looking up" variant that you think is normal. I'd rather say the straight-ahead look is the norm for most font designers when interpreting the "FACE WITH PLEADING EYES" description of the character.
aendruk 4y ago
Not as obvious as you think. https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/v14.0.1/assets/72x72/1f97a.png https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/v14.0.1/assets/72x72... To me at 2–3 mm it looked more like sleep deprived baggy eyelids (or maybe candy corn eyes, but what does that mean?). I read the whole post thinking the program was named after exhaustion, not pleading. I just polled the room and most guesses were that it’s sadness/sorrow.
- avgcorrection 4y ago
  Sleep deprived is also a good guess in my opinion!

If I zoom in, maybe. At default text sizes, it's indistinguishable from all other emoji faces for me.

Judging just from that, I'd have taken the meaning as "verge of crying" or "my pet just unexpectedly died" Until I read that comment I was having real trouble figuring out WTF it had to do with running commands. I thought it might be some practical joke tool that automatically modifies your commands such that they'll make you sad when they run.

avgcorrection 4y ago
Google “puppy dog eyes”. Don’t get why we have to bust out all the cringe internet lingo to describe something that you see in that venerable “real world”.
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- yamtaddle 4y ago
  It doesn't read that way to me. Maybe it's an emoji-font difference (I'm on Mac). [EDIT] I mean I see it once someone points it out, but that'd have been lucky to make my top-5 guesses otherwise.
- warent 4y ago
  people have different perceptions, interpretations, and understandings of things. Your comment comes across as pretty insulting. clear communication is necessary and helpful
  - avgcorrection 4y ago
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- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Would like to note that I happened to see someone I know use this over the weekend and it was unambiguously intended as the "verge of crying" meaning I guessed previously, not "puppy dog eyes". LOL.
obloid 4y ago
I also interpreted it as eyes watering up on the verge of crying.

readthenotes1 4y ago

Feeling yellow and looking down? No idea what that's supposed to mean

avgcorrection 4y ago
Looking up.
- chungy 4y ago
  Depending on font. Inside my web browser, it appears to be looking up. On my web browser's title bar (so rendered by my window manager...), it appears to be looking down, or maybe straight forward. Fonts make a big difference on interpretation too. I remember a few years back, there was a problem where Apple implemented "GRINNING FACE" in such a way that Apple users interpreted it as a sarcasm indicator, but most others would look just like a standard smiling face, leading to quite a number of awkward exchanges when non-Apple users would read things such as "Yes, let's burn it all down :)" instead of "Yes, let's burn it all down :|"
  - avgcorrection 4y ago
    Huh. That’s weird. A looking down variant sounds misleading.
    - chungy 4y ago
      If you think that's weird, compare it between common fonts: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/full-emoji-list.html#1f97a https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/full-emoji-list.html#1... Disregarding the "browser" column (could be anything, it's what your browser renders the text as), only the Twitter font has the "looking up" variant that you think is normal. I'd rather say the straight-ahead look is the norm for most font designers when interpreting the "FACE WITH PLEADING EYES" description of the character.

aendruk 4y ago

Not as obvious as you think. https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/v14.0.1/assets/72x72/1f97a.png https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/v14.0.1/assets/72x72... To me at 2–3 mm it looked more like sleep deprived baggy eyelids (or maybe candy corn eyes, but what does that mean?). I read the whole post thinking the program was named after exhaustion, not pleading. I just polled the room and most guesses were that it’s sadness/sorrow.

avgcorrection 4y ago
Sleep deprived is also a good guess in my opinion!