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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by duckmysick on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:40AM (#33249067)
> You’ll be hard pressed to find many people under 25 using them at all.

What do they use instead?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by ch4s3 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:52AM (#33249294)
From what I've seen, text. I've heard a lot of younger folks call gifs "cringe". It seems like a dead trend, even millennials I know have mostly stopped using them.
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by duckmysick on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33249913)
It seems like we've come full circle then.

Maybe we can expect text emoticons (the ones with a hyphen for a nose) making a comeback soon.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by viridian on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:35PM (#33250100)
They never went away, they just started being used ironically, but yeah, I do think we've already entered a post-ironic phase of text emotes

:-)

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