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First time I've heard "pleading face" referred to as "the bottom emoji"
by bhaney 4y ago
First time I've heard "pleading face" referred to as "the bottom emoji"
- fasterthanlime 4y ago[flagged]
- decremental 4y ago[flagged]
- bhaney 4y agoI'm not really sure why I should take it as a sign of that. What crowd does this indicate I don't hang out with?
- tullo_x86 4y agoQueer people. This is an easily-inferred reference for anyone who's decently-good friends with at least one gay guy or lesbian.
- bhaney 4y agoI have a handful of very close friends who are gay, but I've never heard of this bottom-face emoji thing before today. And I'm a little concerned why not knowing about something that seems like an esoteric piece of fetish-related in-group communication implies that I don't hang out with queer people? Is there an expectation that in order to hang out with people belonging to some group, I need to learn specific lingo regarding that group's sexual power dynamics?
- justincredible 4y ago[flagged]
- mplewis 4y ago[flagged]
- Tozen 4y agoThat's comes off as kind of unfair and misplaced, when a person is not of nor participates in activities common to a particular group. We may only see or know of a particular side of a person. We can see people, in certain settings for many years, yet not know various things about them or they don't show aspects or share various details about themselves. It's one thing to ask or expect others to be open-minded or have empathy for things outside of their regular circles, it's another to presume they must know details about cultures and subcultures they aren't apart of or even condemn them for genuinely not knowing about something or asking. It's alright to not know about everything, as nobody does, and ask questions as they come up. For those concerned, they can explain the history, details, or their views. It's a normal process of learning.
- bigbottomenergy 4y ago[flagged]
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- Ygg2 4y agoLGBT+ BDSM enthusiast.
- favaq 4y ago[flagged]
- DoctorOW 4y agoIt's common in gay circles
- enriquto 4y agoInteresting. Is there a corresponding "top" emoji?
- HL33tibCe7 4y agoAppropriately, it doesn’t exist
- drewbug01 4y agoI appreciate the subtle humor here, but I suspect most of the HN crowd won't quite get it.
- DoctorOW 4y agoTops are considered less likely to use emoji from my understanding. They're supposed to be more stoic.
- thomasahle 4y agoUnicode has these four: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols#:~:text=%26%238868%3B-,%26top%3B,-%E2%8A%A4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols#:~:text=...
- Avamander 4y agoThere's 𓂸, but I guess it's not an emoji.
- chungy 4y agoThere was a discussion on HN recently about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454165
- thomasahle 4y agoWas I the only one looking for ⊥?
- DoctorNick 4y agoYes.
- dllthomas 4y agoYou were not.
- kps 4y agoI expected something about type lattice representation.
- bigbottomenergy 4y ago[flagged]
- OJFord 4y agoI chuckled at the headline, assumed it would be 'peach', now I'm just confused? The article doesn't seem to address it, except to link https://unicode-table.com/en/1F97A/ https://unicode-table.com/en/1F97A/ as 'U+1F97A Bottom Face Emoji' (which that page doesn't say at all), so seems very deliberate, must be some joke we're not in on (on the 'right' subreddits for or whatever) I suppose.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoIn communities that enjoy sexual power play you have a top/dominant and a bottom/submissive. This is particularly prevalent amongst trans people on twitter (where I see it used a lot) you see a lot of people using this emoji under for example a powerful looking selfie of someone who appears dominant, as a playful offer of submission.
- tomxor 4y agoThat's kind of weird to label it based on sexual roles by default. How would they go about explaining that label to a child? How about puss in boots face?
- yusefnapora 4y agoPerhaps the author assumes that a child with a deep interest in rust Unicode edge cases has likely been on the internet before, and may well have been exposed to the existence of sex?
- danielheath 4y agoOn the other hand, if anyone has a good way to explain variable-length integer encodings with constant-complexity backtracking to a child, please let me know.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoEvery sentence starts with a capital letter, and ends with a full stop. Now, imagine that every sentence is at most four words long. It might be one, or two, or three, but it won't have five words. Imagine you drop your finger randomly on a word. How can you find the start of the sentence it's in? (After this, if the child were familiar with binary, I'd show the actual representation of UTF-8, perhaps colour-coded. It's really quite intuitive. No need to go for the abstract straight away: if the child can generalise, they can generalise, and if not, there's no point making it artificially confusing.)
- dragonwriter 4y agoIt’s a very weird choice of descriptions in this context, since it is neither about the domain in which in which that meaning applies, nor, even, anything really specifically about that emoji in particular. It’s exactly like unnecessarily dropping U+1F346 AUBERGINE into a conversations that applies to any emoji…and calling it “the male genitalia emoji”.
- l3mure 4y agoNever before has a programmer joked about getting screwed by a bug, the audacity!
- avgcorrection 4y agoFirst I rolled my eyes when some HN users had to explain to other HN users what that “puppy dog eyes” thing meant. But I felt a bit worse when I first heard that name for it, being used as if it was canonical.
- bitwize 4y agoHacker culture is queer now, and queer, kinky (but SSC) sex is an integral part of that. If it helps any, its official name is U+1F97A, FACE WITH PLEADING EYES.
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