Janet Voxel

Falling water

Pop Lock

Chastity belt

Reading rainbow

Playing games

Steampunky...kinda?

Paul Wall

Fuji apple

I was just about to write this. I end up muting them and leaving the group. It’s like textbook, how not to get sales stuff. Instead of spamming people, make me some more leggings!

Vapid host

My favorite are the ones with huge windows all over the place. You start hunting for the door and it turns out it’s a tiny opening somewhere in a corner or it’s just a space between the glass.

Love yourself

Just breathe....and Happy New Year to you.

Parade ground

Well I mean more in the sense that you get a little notification when someone reacts to a post, you get a little chime. It’s basically telling you “Go back and look at what someone gave youuuu! They like you, they really do!” And I’m not judging anyone that likes that kind of thing. I’m just saying we’re conditioned for that kind of thing, that’s why it’s so successful.

Oh believe me, I do it all the time on here.

Don’t mind me. I feel like this whole discussion is silly and pointless. I’m just being silly at this point.

But what if I thought that you thought I knew you were being ironic and then I reported you because you thought that I thought you thought that you were being ironic when you really weren’t but My feels got hurt?

Is it though? What if the person reading it feels the emoji is ironic because you said it was unambiguous?

So how does an emoji effect your thoughts or feelings either way? The only thing they really do is make you feel validated, because they make you feel nice. That goes all the way back to primary school and getting a gold star. You get a gold star for writing neatly. Timmy, you don’t... it’s not that different. Caring about being able to get rid of what someone thinks about your thoughts or opinions sounds to me like you only want to hear when someone agrees with you, which is why I said having positive ones can actually be a bad thing, because that’s often how they are used.

Third base

If you really want to get deep into it, we shouldn’t have positive or negative emojis at all. We definitely shouldn’t have negative ones because at best all it’s going to reinforce is that “someone doesn’t like you”. I put that in quotations because it’s all in your interpretation of the emoji. Which...when you think about it is kind of silly, because you’re in your feelings over what amounts to a sticker someone gave you. The same goes for the positive ones. All they really do is reinforce a particular type of behavior, a certain kind of post...a certain mindset. Then you end up with a forum full of look at me posts. Just to get that little rush of endorphins you get from getting your daily fix of likes, people will go to some interesting lengths. All that being said, I prefer them to a bunch of responses that just quote a post or just quote the post and just say This, which is a staple of many forums. People are going to take things how they’re going to take them whether words or pictures or stickers are being used. The important thing is are they being used derisively by a person that has a history of saying rule breaking things. They’re just stickers.

Birds eye

Sometimes it’s not even worth it to respond with more than an emoji or picture.