ONTD Original: The New Emojis and You -- Reaching a Community Consensus
You may have noticed that the world of reacting on ONTD has gotten a lot bigger:
a whole new world!♥,✏,🔥,😂,👎🏾,😢, and 😡 Are now accompanied by 💩,👻,🤦🏾♀️,👌🏾,🤢,🤮,🐾, and a surprise emoji that will help us later (and is apparently not recognized by Microsoft)
Some have more obvious uses than others -- After all, we've been asking for quite awhile for a vomit emoji, and now there's 2! -- But what do the other 3 mean, really?
A lot of the links inline are linked to locked posts. If you're a member of the comm, you should be clear to click through and read the content anyway!
My first instinct was in the many, many dating comments we get here; Ghost 'em! But maybe it means "laughter is not strong enough, your comment has outright killed me." It also has a very shrug vibe to me, maybe we can use it that way as well!
Community Consensus:
A set of pawprints. We may be confused at the next entry, but this is the one that stymies me. The only, limited use I can think of is When you talk about your pets, you have to show them.
Community Consensus: Replace it with something else.
Poll
The Pigeon emoji is marked as "Strange Things". Apparently this is a play on...something? Stranger Things?
Community Consensus: It's ranging from
What are you going to use the emojis to represent? Now with an unlocked image!
src: inline, also frank
a whole new world!♥,✏,🔥,😂,👎🏾,😢, and 😡 Are now accompanied by 💩,👻,🤦🏾♀️,👌🏾,🤢,🤮,🐾, and a surprise emoji that will help us later (and is apparently not recognized by Microsoft)
Some have more obvious uses than others -- After all, we've been asking for quite awhile for a vomit emoji, and now there's 2! -- But what do the other 3 mean, really?
A lot of the links inline are linked to locked posts. If you're a member of the comm, you should be clear to click through and read the content anyway!
My first instinct was in the many, many dating comments we get here; Ghost 'em! But maybe it means "laughter is not strong enough, your comment has outright killed me." It also has a very shrug vibe to me, maybe we can use it that way as well!
Community Consensus:
- You're dead from the comment, whether it's from hilarity or sadness. -- cuteej4
- Imminent for spooky posts, I bet you
- The ghost could be a stand in for Jesus --my_moloko
A set of pawprints. We may be confused at the next entry, but this is the one that stymies me. The only, limited use I can think of is When you talk about your pets, you have to show them.
Community Consensus: Replace it with something else.
Poll
The Pigeon emoji is marked as "Strange Things". Apparently this is a play on...something? Stranger Things?
Community Consensus: It's ranging from
- ' bird behavior' (genbu_no_miko24),
- 'I just want to react with something'
- ,' I am avenging the pigeon killed by Michael Bay'
- Drama is imminent, based upon this thread.
- Slut?
What are you going to use the emojis to represent? Now with an unlocked image!
src: inline, also frank