/lit/ - Literature

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>>22280107
>Why would I want to write for you after this
If your schizo narrative wasn't transparent already, you just fucking blew it. I suggest you attract a better writer to post for you.

>>20676119
>From then on, her “birth control pills” were part of their sex life.
Oh I laughed

>>19550732
>just write lmao

>as a language
don't be absurd
>as a term of expression
there's nothing wrong with emojis. they're just prepackaged emoticons, which people have already been using for decades
The purpose of emojis, after the novelty factor, is to replicate social cues to avoid misunderstandings. sarcasm, a sudden shift in mood, or sharing something online can all be misconstrued when you aren't able to gauge the person's face and body language. Emoji and emoticons in general are for the people concerned about that sort of thing happening. In addition the library of characters encourages people to create and spread 'codes' or 'in-jokes' through repetitive use of the same more obscure characters with groups they are in.

The 'in-joke' factor is what leads to this >>8971737 sort of thing, where you see emojis capitalized on in obnoxious ways: based on people thinking 'its just like what i do with my friends' in the fact that emoji are only basic characters but give people the idea that they create whatever they use it for. A sense of ownership to some degree, something corporations like to cultivate in customers already.

There are interesting takeaways to be learned from regional differences in usage and how usage changes in populations over time, now that that big data is available to almost anyone, but emoji themselves don't really interest me. I can't see any other prominant character libraries popping up and stealing their thunder, so i suspect this with infrequent character replacements is all we can expect out of emoticon development or the forseeable future.