I feel insane for having to explain this, but no, emojis are shortcuts to express emotions, it’s obviously disrespectful to not put in effort for a real response.
If you have nothing to say say nothing and respect the person’s lack of care for your opinion. If they dont know you they dont care and dont want your worthless sympathy.
They wrote to you on the sad news because they needed too in the group chat. Leave them alone or write a thoughtful message.
Put in effort if you care.
I saw someone put crying emojis on a lost dog poster. No, I don’t need emojis to feel bad, and this isnt Instagram. Please stop.
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Upvote for unpopular opinion. Not just sad emojis but all emojies get a ton of hate, especially on Reddit. For people who sit somewhere on the spectrum, emojies finally convey what we’re feeling and keep our sometimes harsh sounding texts lighthearted.
😢
🙁
😔
Agreed. The full gif of Crying Jordan is the only appropriate response.
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Yes, I get it.
The emoji trollers tho 💀.
My homie got hit by a car and died. 🚶🏻♂️🚗☠️😭😭 Plz pray for his family.
But seriously completely agree with you OP lol.
Your uncle passed away 💀😭
“I’m getting a divorce 🗿”
Why are people posting sad stuff for people to see then? Especially people they don’t know? I post something for people to see and get annoyed when people see and react to it.
So hey my sister died.
“Sad emoji”
Fuck. Off.
“Sorry about your dad 😔😕 ☠️ 🪦 It totally sucks”
😢😢😢
Skibidi toilet died 😭💀😔
Thoughts and prayers
My condolences 🥀
I agree, plus they make the entire thing seem fake. Not sorry, I don’t believe you when your post is dotted with 😥😥😢😢😭😭😭😭😭 and 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.
🙏🙏🙏
🙁
emoji are popular because generations of kids grew up communicating mostly via text, so they never developed the ability to understand nuance in words. they need clear indicators of emotion, so they need to open a picture book of facial expressions.
it’s like we gave ourselves Type 2 Autism.
Imho they can be fine if they are accompanied by some actual message. Emotes alone – especially while in a sad moment – are disrespectful and meaningless
I’ll sometimes use the hug emoji if i don’t have anything to say, just as a way to express a general “my sympathies”. But yeah the actual sad face emojis are for silly things
Emojis are mean to show emotion though.
A lot of emojis might be too much but for people that are more visual they mean more.
I know I have searched through the list of emojis before to find the correct one to share with a family or friend. I don’t know how to write how I feel in words but this emoji captures it.
yup shoutout to my “friends” thinking a frowny face was enough support for me being sexually assaulted
Counterpoint: leaving notices for people that you like, but for whom you know the reasons. For something like that, a crying emoji or similar is fine. The actual sentiments are spoken elsewhere, but it’s a sign that you are not happy about this particular scenario.
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I’ve always felt like emojis are disingenuous when used in a serious situation.
I just use eggplant for everything regardless. Has served me well
R/oldpeoplefacebook is a gold mine for this.
I don’t know about this one, I see a lot of heartbreaking messages on Twitter recently, and 💔 and 🫂 at the end of a reply don’t feel inappropriate.
😹😹😹 sorry for your loss lol lots of love
If someone is going to shoot me a message about some horrible tragic event instead of calling or telling me in person then they deserve emojis 😂
Oh brother
LoL
Gotten to a point where the seemingly sad emojis are used for laughting
😭💀☠️ are now used for laughing
rip grandma 😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏
😢
They’ve been memed too much, and similarly to language, their meaning has been changed with time. 😭 and 💀 really mean 😂, and 😔😢 often mean 😐/are used sarcastically,,,,so yeah no definitely not appropriate.
What about a happy emoji for a sad event?
90% of the time your “thoughtful message” will be as cliche as emoji, so, whatever.
If I know a person, I’ll know what that person wants to convey no matter how they do it.
If I don’t, I don’t care either way.
Yeah I feel that, when one of my best friends died in a car accident, I messaged my dad to tell him and all I got back was “😭” that really fucked me upppp and I still haven’t truly forgiven him for it
I got ‘we’re going to have to let you go 😔’ from my boss
If this is unpopular fuck me
I find all cliche condolences way more fake than a 🙁
😭 etc are obviously over the top cartoonish, but I’d take a 🙁 over “thoughts and prayers” any day. It’s not a substitute for real in-person emotional support, of course, but that doesn’t happen online anyway.
Sad emojis are effort. I texted one of my best friends who had cancer “sorry for ya bruh 😩😩”
Yeah that’s why I use periods instead of emojis. It’s a lot more respectful.
i use :(( because it feels genuine..
I can agree if the point was sad emojis have been made satirical to a point of no return, but on the other hand, I understand why people use them. If a person is genuinely sad I don’t expect them to be able to express what they want to in words because words are hard. Emojis can absolutely be a valid way to express that. The supposed lack of effort is frustrating but that’s because the only effort you’re seeing is the act to send the emoji and not in processing their own emotion or such as well. It’s also just as simple as an act of acknowledgement.
Like, durrrr it depends on the context/closeness to the situation, etc. but I’m interpreting this post as a catch-all.
On the other other hand, emojis?? on a poster?? in real life?? printed or graffitied? because my first thought was graffitied and to me that’s like they’re mocking it, but maybe if the person looking for the dog put emojis on it’s to make it look more eye catching
🫄🏻👁️🫦👁