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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by WalterBright on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:34PM (#47281374)
I used emojis for a while. Every text had to have an emoji. I spent a lot of time scrolling through the emoji palette looking for the perfect emoji.

Eventually, I decided that was a complete waste of time and now I use words.

BTW, one of the things that turned me off from emojis is they looked like the stickers 2nd graders would use, along with a Playmobil look.

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Re:"I'm obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji di... by drw85 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:31AM (#47285720)
I just think there are far too many. Sometimes I just want to add a happy face and there are 500 variations. Then I find one which I think looks happy and hover over it for a second and the tooltip says “shivering anxious constipated”.
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