Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄

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My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.

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Are you using the opendyslexic font?

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5 points

This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.

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8 points

Father Apple protects us from all wickedness , including autonomy and any choice unconsidered by Him, mhm.

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Because they didn’t want you to read the trauma terms of service better

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2 points

Comic Sans?

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Often yes, though most sans serif fonts work well enough for me.

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I looked into that font when I head about it. Peer reviewd studies seem to agree with you. It’s also mainly the size and reglar spacing that helps.

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65 points

I think of them like swear words. Not on-the-internet swearing, but public swearing. To use their full power, words like “fuck” need context and - more importantly - discretion and frugal usage.

Overuse of emojis is even easier and harder to look at. But when used right, they serve a purpose. Otherwise it’s “Why the fuck do users fucking dislike the fucking use of emojis on fucking Lemmy?”

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Because, emojis, breakup, the, flow, of, a, sentence, like, a, comma. Using too, many, makes, it, sound, like, you, are, straining, to 💩.

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Huh, never understood it till now. 100% how my inner monolog read the title.

Do add to your point making all those movements while talking make you seem crazy.

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35 points

it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like

*During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️‍🗨️ at 💑 *

Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government

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33 points

I grew up with emoticons and find the colorful nature of them quite disruptive… but that might just be me *shrug*

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I’m sooooo with you. Emoticons 4eva! And ASCII art.

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15 points

My keyboard doesn’t have enough Cs on it to properly express how thicc that is.

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Hahaha it’s from a VERY NSFW animation, “Axel in Harlem.” It was a big meme on a subreddit I used to go to, that I can no longer remember the name off it was all sped up and had “Ballin’” by Roddy Rich pitched up as the background music. It’s a hoot. I can pull that ASCII art by typing “forgies”. I also have

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Aaaah sexy Flanders!

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Man, you hit the nail on the head for why emojis nag me, messages being monotone just makes it so much easier to parse.

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I usually always use : ) type of faces to give tone, but I used to use text like you did there for shrug, but I assumed it would alter the text due to underlying text editor like this

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It does unless you proceed it with a backslash like \*

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Yeah I assumed it was just html underneath it all. Test: <i>italics</I> <Strong>bold</strong>

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