Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

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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