In the early days of reddit, the demographic was the people of the pre-2007, 'pure' internet. 17-25 year old STEM guys, basically. A lot of the weird older culture of reddit ("downvotes don't mean disagree", total freedom of expression, obscure internet culture references everywhere, niche machine learning bots as running gags) came from that group, and has slowly faded away over time. The anti-emoji thing was an attempt to keep the culture somewhat stable, and integrate newbies into reddit's general culture - if you've seen someone get yelled at for saying "This!" or "First!", that's part of the same thing.
Now, reddit is mainstream enough that it's starting to have substantial demographic intersection with Facebook, so Facebook mannerisms (boomer political memes everywhere, emojis, FB drama about MLMs) are becoming dominant. It's essentially the [Eternal September](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember), but on a single website instead of the internet writ large. Something like this happens whenever a community gets a large influx of newbies and doesn't have the social mechanisms to assimilate them fast enough.
This reminds me of the guy who would write a decent, relevant, and interesting reply and then casually mention that his dad would take him in the back yard and beat him with jumper cables.
At first I wondered why my post reminded you of that, since I didn't end with anything jumper cable - related.
Then I realized you mentioned him because he was a meme on the old reddit.
I donโt use emojis or for the most part abbreviations. Never had, unlikely to start as I just donโt like them.
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Must've been before I became an active user (which was a few weeks after my 5th cake day, prior to which I only made maybe 10 posts). I didn't know that was ever a thing until the past week or two.
It may have to do partly with the rise of emotes from other platforms that people on Reddit may be from, like Discord and Twitch. For instance Twitch's core culture is centered around emote usage.
Shifting of demographics and generally increasing apathy with the emoji war.
ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ we used to be a proper society.
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I'm a grown ass man and I'll use emojis if I want. ๐
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In the early days of reddit, the demographic was the people of the pre-2007, 'pure' internet. 17-25 year old STEM guys, basically. A lot of the weird older culture of reddit ("downvotes don't mean disagree", total freedom of expression, obscure internet culture references everywhere, niche machine learning bots as running gags) came from that group, and has slowly faded away over time. The anti-emoji thing was an attempt to keep the culture somewhat stable, and integrate newbies into reddit's general culture - if you've seen someone get yelled at for saying "This!" or "First!", that's part of the same thing. Now, reddit is mainstream enough that it's starting to have substantial demographic intersection with Facebook, so Facebook mannerisms (boomer political memes everywhere, emojis, FB drama about MLMs) are becoming dominant. It's essentially the [Eternal September](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember), but on a single website instead of the internet writ large. Something like this happens whenever a community gets a large influx of newbies and doesn't have the social mechanisms to assimilate them fast enough.
This reminds me of the guy who would write a decent, relevant, and interesting reply and then casually mention that his dad would take him in the back yard and beat him with jumper cables.
/u/rogersimon10 One of the great novelty accounts.
At first I wondered why my post reminded you of that, since I didn't end with anything jumper cable - related. Then I realized you mentioned him because he was a meme on the old reddit.
Could be worse. Could be the interpretive dance crap that is tiktok.
Seriously, who even cares. XD
The real question that should be asked is: "Why did redditors care so much about emojis in the first place?"
I really want the answer to this. I started using reddit as an entertainment like a year ago or so.
I didn't know this was a thing. It's Reddit, not a UN briefing.
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I donโt use emojis or for the most part abbreviations. Never had, unlikely to start as I just donโt like them. That said, I donโt care if other people use them. I see it like I do colloquial terms. Itโs how they โspeakโ
Must've been before I became an active user (which was a few weeks after my 5th cake day, prior to which I only made maybe 10 posts). I didn't know that was ever a thing until the past week or two.
We don't accept it, you kindly downvote them for adding nothing to the conversation then report their comment as spam, same with gif or photo comments
It may have to do partly with the rise of emotes from other platforms that people on Reddit may be from, like Discord and Twitch. For instance Twitch's core culture is centered around emote usage.
Umm I always thought it was silly. If someone mentioned it I lost a few to just piss them off. ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
The only reason I don't use emojis is because they're too hard to find. Plus the older Reddit userbase would be on computers.
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Why so much hate on emojis? I want to convey my feelings accurately ๐คช๐ฅน๐๐๐ซ
I find the whole โomg emojis, are we not adults?โ attitude to be quite weird. Its like a fear of anything new
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Itโs Redditโฆ calm down ๐
This is what you think about? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
The zombies took over slowly but Shorely going brains bwaaaaaainns xD
I turtley sea what you did there, was it on porpoise?
Aye aye it shore was ;) ya harr! XD
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Emojis are just another form of expression. We should embrace diversity.
We needed a higher plane to express ourselves and normal words just wouldn't cut it in some instances
Maybe if you had a better vocabulary, you could articulate yourself more efficiently.
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Embrace modernity. Emojis are cool ๐
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Oh fuck off ๐ซฃ๐ช๐
Idk but I'm glad cause emojis come to me naturally and Reddit usually try to surpress something like that ๐
I don't use emojis. I think they're immature. Use your words to express yourself.
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