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Can someone explain?
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a “old(er) person” thing?
I’ve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called “ironic” among my kids and their friends, so I’m not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
The scariest part is how many I've caught using 😏 as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"
I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
Solid evidence for your case because it's clearly an amused smirk
My boss uses 😈 and 🥵 in our work group chat sometimes. Like, bruv
Freaky ahh boss
Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
They start a Skype call so they can show you live how much it made them laugh
😏🍑
I guess we are too old for this shit to even matter. I mean we lived to see the OG emoji invented, there was no ironic or non ironic way to use it. And there was only one.
The OG emoji were ascii.
I know. I meant the original smiley.
Gotcha :)
Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?
Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
Got it, thank you. 😂 😂 😂 I'm glad to see that real comedy isn't dead!
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
Eh, it is when the "childhood" age ends and development stabilizes for a bit before declining, close enough for shitposts.
Using 😂 feels very millennial/gen x.
:-P
Let's get you back to the home, buddy. We're watching WKRP tonight, won't that be fun?
ASCII emojis are still real to me dammit
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
^(emoticons)^
Kaomoji
Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.
This is peak old person storytelling
I wanna watch Laverne & Shirley
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The only funny joke in the emoji movie compared them to emoticons and that emoticons were old.