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I ๐งโ๐ฆฒ am happy ๐ that you ๐ซต put these emojis ๐, otherwise I ๐งโ๐ฆฒ wouldn't have understood ๐คท
๐ Are you a little bald headed baby โ๏ธ
Missed opportunity to use ๐ถ
I still don't understand this use of emoji.
It's not "I shoved a ๐ต up my ๐", I could get that, reject alphabet return to pictogram for the sake of compression if nothing else. But no, it's "I shoved a cactus ๐ต up my dick ๐" which is just...why are we doing this?
Emojis are great when you want to convey tone or emotion that you normally can't do through text alone. I find them especially useful when a sentence as-is sounds a lot colder than you actually mean it to be
Obviously not the intention of OP and it's definitely excessive IMO but I do also find that they can be useful markers for longer texts. It gets a lot of hate but I find emojis really useful in codebase READMEs since you can quickly scan through and pick out the bits if information you're looking for
Having grown up chatting with friends and hitting on chicks via MSN messenger, I'm aware. "I'm gonna get you for that ๐ก " and "I'm gonna get you for that ๐ " are two different messages.
I will allege that emoji are badly suited to that task though. First, there are too many emoji. Even just the facial expressions, there are dozens of them. Second, they aren't designed to parse to emotions, they're designed to parse to facial expressions. Many of which are specific to Japanese culture. Third, they're rendered kinda tiny in a lot of fonts. With a font size and screen zoom level set where I can comfortably read text, many emoji are just...yellow circles. Or little blobs of color that I have to bring the screen much closer to my face to make out than the raw text.
Emoticons did the job better with less. But, entropy ruins all.
It's only compressing the message visually (it generally uses more data)
Also, at least for me, it takes more work to parse the images than words require. I have to like... shift out of reading mode, comprehend the image and then go back to reading.
How do emoji use more data? They're one, maybe two unicode characters?