Some time ago, I noticed that youtube comments are copied without emojis, thought nothing of that - bugs happen - but today I finally decided to find out why and what the hell is even this.

  • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    2 months ago

    Odds are they did it so everyone would have uniform emojis. Would also enforce the gun to squirt toy change. Also it may be a remedy for the fact that android updates suck ass. A new phone may never be updated and be stuck with old emojis. Google should have learned by now to abstract away the hardware drivers, but that would make too much sense.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
      46·
      2 months ago

      What exactly does it matter to be stuck with old emojis? Why is it important for them to be perfectly uniform?

        • SanguinePar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          That’s really interesting, I didn’t realise the problem was that bad. I did the quiz at the bottom, tried to answer honestly and only got 5 out of 14 correct.

          • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
            22·
            2 months ago

            I got 7 and even then that’s only because half way through I began to notice a theme on the really obscure ones with long names.

            These are ridiculous, they often bear no resemblance at all to their supposed meaning wtf? Slanted closed eyes with steam coming out the nostrils isn’t anger it’s… “Triumph”!?

              • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                4·
                2 months ago

                Mind you, emoji were created in Japan, so a lot of the original ones can be weird to us due to cultural differences.

            • ConcettaEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Would love to see actual use vs intented use on that one lol.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
          10·
          2 months ago

          When they look different people interpret them differently.

          Ah, paralinguistic communication is always like this. Once you change the symbol ever so slightly, the meaning being conveyed also changes.

        • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I guess that makes more sense now that I see an example. I just can’t fathom how any Apple artist thought they made a “grinning face with smiling eyes” when they looked at that image. It’s “grimacing face with smiling eyes” very obviously. I thought all representations were like the others in this example - they all look like a “grinning face with smiling eyes”. They look different but it doesn’t matter.

          I still think though that if there weren’t obvious mistakes like this, it doesn’t matter how the “grinning face with smiling eyes” exactly looks, or any other emoji for that matter.

          • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            It’s clearly another way to wall the apple garden further, to the point where you don’t get to communicate in an effective way unless you both have an iPhone.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          That’s interesting. I wonder how true that still is today, given the study was done in 2016. The study also pointed out that even on the same platform, people on average interpreted the same emojis differently. I’d be interested in an updated study conducted among younger Gen Z to see if being completely raised in the digital age has created various emoji languages, especially across cultures (which they mention they wanted to do at the end of the article as well).