Ok Thumbs up emoji MEME4/10/2024 ![]() If you bandy about emojis in your conversations, just be aware of their not-inconsiderable might. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: Did he mean to give the CMO the brush-off? Photograph: Julien Behal (People in the United States are thought to send around 96 each a day).īut, as with Gifs, if you are going to let an emoji – any emoji – do the grunt work for you in a conversation, you’d really better know what you’re getting yourself into. Now that we are all social distancing and staring into our phones, tone of voice and body language have been swept aside, for the ease of the emoji.Īccording to a study by Swyft media, more than six billion emojis are sent around the world every day. We are living in strange and different and, yes, unprecedented times. (Were they trying to say, "Yes, you're still talking, but we're not really listening?" I suppose you'd have to ask them.) After Donnelly tweeted yesterday about Ireland's progress on the vaccine front, thousands of people simply replied with a single thumbs-up emoji. In fact – look, people are bored – a meme appears to have been born. When the exchange was reported over the weekend, in the Sunday Independent, Donnelly's wayward emoji use didn't go unnoticed. Whatever his inner thoughts or motives, news of the exchange is doing nothing to dispel the niggling sense some have that Donnelly's personal brand runs towards the smug and the snarky. If you are going to let an emoji – any emoji – do the grunt work for you in a conversation, you'd really better know what you're getting yourself into Did Donnelly really mean to give the CMO the brush-off? Is he a simply a busy man for whom brevity is key? Did he realise in the moment that this was an inappropriate response to a professional correspondence? Or is he just hopelessly out of touch with the nebulous contexts of each emoji? Let’s pause this scene for a moment, and step outside it, Matrix-style. When Holohan reiterated the seriousness of the situation some days later, texting Donnelly that the “R” number in Dublin had increased (not exactly good news), Donnelly replied with a single thumbs-up emoji. (Donnelly had said on radio that transmission was slowing in Dublin and that the outlook appeared “positive”). ![]() Several others wrote, "Cancel the thumbs-up emoji."Īnother user sparked the following question: "Who else thinks that the “black thumbs up emoji being downvoted” meme is racist?"īut the thumbs-up emoji isn't the only emoji Gen Z wants to be ousted.ĭaily Mail also cited a poll in which 2,000 people between the ages of 16 and 29 voted on their least favorite emojis.On October 12th the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, texted Donnelly to say that the number of Covid-19 cases in Dublin was on the rise and to advise him to be cautious in public messages about the virus in the capital. ![]() My last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a thumbs up," one person noted, while another wrote, "I don't know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me." Others agreed and said it's especially inappropriate in work settings. "Took me a bit to adjust and get out of my head that it means they're mad at me." No one my age in the office does it, but the Gen X people always do it," Daily Mail said of the Reddit user. Some members of Gen Z say yes and expressed their emotions about the symbol on Reddit - as well as nine other emojis they believe are for "old people" and should no longer be used.ĭaily Mail reported that a 24-year-old Reddit user recently claimed that the thumbs-up emoji should "never used in any situation" because it is "hurtful". WASHINGTON (TND) - Is the thumb-up emoji "hostile" or "passive-aggressive"? ![]()
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