Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by bcrosby95 on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:49PM (#23194297)

They can also be ambiguous. Some people think "high five" emojis are actually "prayer hands". Which convey wildly different reactions to something. Told your friend your Dad was diagnosed with cancer? high five

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by parliament32 on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:26PM (#23197013)

It's definitely a "praying" emoji, the whole high five thing is an urban myth.

The official spec[1] calls it "PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS".. the keyword there is "person" (in contrast to, for example, "1FAC2;PEOPLE HUGGING" when there is multiple people). The emoji is of a single person folding their hands, which really isn't a high five unless you're somehow high five-ing yourself.

[1]ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by jodrellblank on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:49AM (#23201316)

Never heard of it beign a high five before but it's hard to trust the reasoning that "PERSON" means singular, when the "FOLDED HANDS" aren't folded.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by cableshaft on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:03PM (#23198995)

I've definitely confused the prayer emoji and thought it was a clapping emoji before. When someone else uses it, I just see the image, not the keyword associated with it.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by NoodleIncident on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:40PM (#23194963)

I don't think there's a high five emoji. When I search it, I only get the praying/folded hands, and it says that it's rarely interpreted as a high five.

https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by monkeywork on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:04PM (#23194524)

that's only ambiguous if you have no cultural understanding at all ...

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