Wait... Would it be possible to throw a basketball hard enough to leave the moon's gravity and have it fall to earth? I have the math to solve this, but not the energy.
TIL the moon has way more gravity than I thought. I definitely have spent the last 30something years under the impression that if I jumped hard enough on the moon id float into the void.
Welcome to reddit, where if you say anything someone might not like, thousands of people gotta let you know how they feel what you said is stupid and you're the dumbest person ever in their eyes lol. I just troll em after that point and let em be pissy about it. Too old to care if someone is upsetti spaghetti with me on the damn internet.
Sucks how it wasn't that long ago that there were a lot of new options coming with some regularity, and now the big shit companies have completely monopolized the internet and you're forced to choose between varying shades of shit.
On the plus side my screen time hasn't been lower in ages, and I'm reading actual books again.
Usually it just meant someone went on this site and wasn't aware it was still in its weird phase of acting like it was a secret club you'd make as a kid. When it was full of unwritten rules like the emoji police, and repeating 'inside-jokes' based on the same five threads from half a decade ago.
I think it's more that random emoji use was so out of place that the person was clearly new. It was a sign that Reddit was changing and becoming popular/mainstream and they didn't like that.
Not saying they deserved to be downvoted, but it was like a culture clash. I think most people disliked emojis anyway, especially if it's crying laughing or something. Like imagine you're in a group and someone starts using gen alpha slang, or just generally using slang that nobody else uses. Imagine a poltician using hiphop slang in a speech, etc.
Using 🗿 or "I'm afraid of women 😎" was common enough but 😂 or 💀 or something is commonly used by people on Facebook on the kind of thing that's often just not that funny tbh.
That was part of the point of "deep fried memes". It's classic facebook moms "wheezing laugh track over a video of a cat" sort of stuff.
Especially if they use more than one emoji, or just use an emoji with no purpose like an "okay 😊" that doesn't fit the vibes.
Say what you will about the "quality" of Reddit, it tends to rise and fall ("le epic gem" was a lowpoint) but it's definitely changed in recent years. The mood and vibes are different now that it's "mainstream" and it's very common to push back against change in something you love regardless of anything.
EDIT: Actually I remember now. Reddit used emoticons like ಠ_ಠ or gifs to react so using an emoji was just a clear culture clash. Especially because most people used to use PC whereas now people use mobile.
Did what in real life?? Downvote comments with emojis (first comment in the thread)? Give actual replies (the comment to which you have replied)? Reply with emojis (one of the other comments replying to the same one as your comment is replying to)?
For a long time, emojis were just seen as a childish thing to use. I don’t have any idea why that was the case, but I remember feeling the same way at the time for whatever reason.
Couple that with the early days of Reddit, where 90-95% of users were pseudo intellectuals and/or a “neck beard,” it makes sense they would hate emojis
Thank you for the explanation. Even though I'm in the middle 30s, I do like to use them as text (for me) is a bit problematic means of communication. The tone cannot be guessed always, so reactions do help.
And I remember always having to restrict myself here, when writing something. Never really knowing why
I use emojis the same way, I got into some trouble due to miscommunications do to the tonelessness of texts back when emojis were still relatively new.
Even though reddit is about as serious as BYU's offense I've always treated messaging on here as closer to writing an email than writing a text message, so I at least make an attempt at decent grammar, spelling, and punctuation, with little to no emoji use (and if I'm going to use them then I'm going old school ASCII since it's not browser dependant)
I’m not sure if this is why, but I always thought it was because back then lots of people used Reddit on PC/browser. And emojis that looked good on the phone looked goofy on the browser. So it was a combination of “emojis are childish”, “mobile is inferior” and “goofy looking emojis”
When I saw it "back in the day" it was always clowned on when people were using excessive amounts of emojis. It always felt closer to 'holds up spork' shit than how emojis are used today
I’m fairly certain the pseudo-intellectuals never left Reddit. I also believe that someone mistakenly tried to give them a bath and quintupled their population
I don’t think many ever left, they just got watered down as Reddit became more popular. They had a more unique fedora tipping flavor back then with stuff like repetitive inside jokes about coconuts and broken arms.
People on here are for sure still smug pseudo-intellectuals.. but through osmosis they’re much the same as ones you’d find on Twitter or other social media. Still huffing their own farts and arguing about stupid shit, but with less of a cohesive basement dweller energy.
Back in the day, redditors thought they were cool for hating anything that normies liked, including emojis. And yes, some of them have still not outgrown that phase
I haven’t heard the term “normie” used in so long. I remember when Reddit had a one-sided war with Instagram, but they didn’t care about us in the slightest lol.
Tbf, the problem was a 9:16 video being displayed on a 16:9 player. Once shortform content became popular and the default veiwing orientation swapped to vertical, everyone stopped complaining.
I wish that was still the case. Emojis are unintrusive, but filming in 9:16 just makes it impossible to view in anything other than portrait orientation, and it results in almost 80% of the video being the sky and the floor, and them having to wildly swing around the camera to give a sense of what they're actually trying to film. It's not too bad if the subject is a person, animal or a vertically-proportioned object, but it just sucks for anything else and still screams, "I'm too lazy/stupid to turn my phone 90 degrees."
I made my first account at the ass end of that era, was super confused why my comments were downvoted until it was explained. I didn’t use emojis in anything for a few years after that still
I still downvote comments that are made exclusively of emojis-- at least most of the time
I just don't think a bunch of laughing faces or a single skull contributes anything and therefore belongs towards the bottom with the least relevant comments
I'll make an exception if they can make a joke but it's rare
I love the reaction GIFs but these are also relatively new only being a thing since 2022. I’d definitely argue they helped lift emoji use tho since commenting wasn’t limited to pure text
Edit: Yes I meant integrated GIFs in Reddit comments, I’m aware you could just have a link of a GIF since before on comments. And I’m also aware GIFs themselves have been around for forever
The most reddit thing is to complain about reddit (because you are not part of reddit - the others are) and call it the hivemind (which, again, you are not part of).
At the current state of things the account posting that is most likely a bot. Because it is the standard response.
When I first started Reddit, I found a “Reddit guide to posts, upvotes, & downvotes” and emojis were marked has a most heinous sin. Gen Z has changed that quickly
For sure. I’d have to add the shift of Reddit mainly being a desktop website to the Reddit phone app increasing in use. You’d really have to go out of your way to use emojis on a desktop vs the ease of using them on your phone
This is a meme and exaggerated, but it kind of explains it better than some of the comments lol.
Emojis were not liked here because it didn't fit the general style of Reddit, and then it became a huge rule when putting many emojis, using crying laughing emoji everywhere, cringe clickbait captions covered videos with emojis etc. became trends all at the same time. The overuse of emojis was cringe 80% of the time so it was a "rule" to just keep them out of the site all together.
Eventually, you'd see comments like "okay but this one is okay 🗿, it's a meme" or people using them "ironically" to parody others or stereotypes (like the speech of a Karen or something) and slowly Emojis were accepted, now the comment just gets downvoted if it's generally cringe.
Evil closet monkey here. Reddit places more emphasis on the comments section than other social media as a place to have conversations.
Facebook used to have different pages focused on interests and activities. Many people could interact with each other in the comments. It would get annoying sifting through comments of “lol” or “omg me too”. Then emoji’s and stickers came along. Many people left facebook because that was just one way it was going down hill.
Youtube comments were always a dumpster fire, but there was some interesting stuff in there and even genuine interaction between creators and viewers. Emoji’s and other fodder comments made it harder.
On Reddit the downvote feature was originally intended to push discussions higher and the fodder lower. It was even in the official Reddiquette before it was rewritten. Then emojis were added, same with gif comments. Many smaller subreddits still have rules against emoji only comments or ones that are only “lol” or “this”.
It’s not usually a big deal to scroll past a couple emoji comments, but eventually it becomes too much. It’s also one possible tell of a community that isn’t well moderated, though it’s not always the case.
The emoji movie. A collective trauma for everyone. Commenting emojis was just insensitive to the countless victims who forced to watch that abomination because of their screaming snot nosed little imps.
You see, little Discord kitten, the well-educated and intellectually superior fine gentlemen of this fine establishment colloquially referred as Reddit doesn't stoop down to this linguistical brainrot the common folk referrs to as emoji. Alas, whilst the hands of the imbecile cretins keeps tightening their stranglehold upon the once pure and intellectual vastness of the internet, this fine community refuses to bow down to the least common denominator. Henceforth it shall be known that such linguistic travesties aren't welcome on this fine site, please take your skibidi-technoglyphs to less refined places such as tumblr or facebook. The fine gentlesirs of reddit have chosen to only accept rare pepes, twentieth century 13375p34k smileys, and pseudo-code as expressions of those effeminate weakling things commomly known as emotions. I tip my fedora to ye, kind Sir.
HATECELL
"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing, but because I am enlightened by my own intelligence" - Aalewis
Reddit was basically built by programmers, nerds, analysts, autism-coded literal thinkers, and people who live off dry sarcasm.
The whole culture runs on text, logic, and understatement.
So when someone drops 🥺🤣😭🔥✨ like it’s TikTok, Reddit reads it as:
“you’re importing foreign internet behavior into our library.”
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u/Ponjos Mod 15d ago
Post is approved. ✅
😊 Kindly ignore any comments with excessive emoji use. Thanks! 🙏🏻