Truly interesting to interact with .world. With the whole preemptive last resort you've been subjected to, the people of .world are completely flabbergasted by the emoji game Hexbear offers! And not just that, being more left than a democrat by a millimeter gets you attacked from all sides! (The right)
And predictably, the Adults in the Room™ are impervious to such childish presentation! Because who possibly could reply in a slightly more expressive, comical and crude matter but a child!
After all, if the form and @Civility@hexbear.net is lacking... Then the whole argument must be so too!
Oh .world... What virgin lands, unscorched by the Hog Doctrine ™®
in lemmy.world, the authoritarian admins refuse to let people use emotes to express themselves. They fear that by prompting them to see, they'll see that the site has no original culture and that it's just a reddit clone, and then they'll leave.
Errrr.... Is that an emoji I see? I'll have you know that I am a sophisticated 19 year old man. I do not tolerate such childishness like saying "LMAO". It's not even a word. It's just a bunch of letters smushed together because you're too lazy to spell it out loud, and I bet you're not even laughing. And your ass is most definitely still attached to you, otherwise you would be inside the hospital right now.
To be fair American animations and comics were overwhemingly for children for a long time, thanks to the shitbag Disney, while both Europe and Japan diversified much earlier.
nah emote game is an integral part of . give it a few years and the emotes will be so far abstracted from their original meaning as to be their own symbolic language.