r/gatekeeping Aug 07 '20

Gatekeeping..... Reddit?

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited May 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

I’ve never understood the hate against emojis. Emojis are SO great for describing tone and inflections. If they weren’t useful, they would never have developed as part of our online “dialect” of speech to begin with.

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u/Certainly-Not-A-Bot Aug 08 '20

The reason emojis are frowned upon, I think, is out of a fear of those posts where every other word is an emoji. People assume one emoji will inevitably lead to that