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It’s like it’s repeating itself or using too many punctuation marks. Emoji are meant to be the informal and succinct. The emoji don’t make it briefer. With tha
by Affric 3y ago
It’s like it’s repeating itself or using too many punctuation marks. Emoji are meant to be the informal and succinct. The emoji don’t make it briefer.
With that said the message is very serious. And serious isn’t disjunct to formal.
I think highlighting the difference between the people (real warm) and the bureaucracy (operated by people who are taught to turn off their empathy to serve the system) is worthwhile and has been proven effective in populist campaigns of late.
All in all it’s interesting political communication.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoWhat's.... The proboe with emojis now?
- Affric 3y agoThey are like little doodles in the text. They don't convey any more information than is already in there. Things which are urgent are generally best written with as little adornment as possible. If someone isn't already for the cause it can cause them to not take your writing seriously. Imagine if you're the parent of a child and they send you this message: > "Active shooter at school " The time taken to get the emoji undercut the seriousness of the message. They are apparently trying to communicate something important but deliberately wasting my time.
- Affric 3y agoOriginally the quoted message included emojis but obviously HN kills them