Im 27, very first birth year for gen z. And I'm a teacher and this is a multiple times a day occurrence. Also, them laughing at my slang terms that I don't even realise are slang as I'm using them. And the scary bit is, some of them are 18-20, so still firmly gen z too.
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a “old(er) person” thing?
I’ve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called “ironic” among my kids and their friends, so I’m not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
The scariest part is how many I've caught using 😏 as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"
I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
I guess we are too old for this shit to even matter. I mean we lived to see the OG emoji invented, there was no ironic or non ironic way to use it. And there was only one.
Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?
Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.
No, it's when you become aware of too much shit and enter the next level of needing to learn more coping skills. It's like suddenly growing legs and realizing there's a whole world out there and people who never grew legs are like woah miss bigshot with her LeGssss ooooo so SpEcIaL think you're so FaNcY so WoKe and then form an army of undeveloped against you and they win and you just facepalm for eternity as you scrounge for ways to help them grow legs but they now think growing legs gives you autism or something stupid.
Ignorance is bliss is no understatement. I'm so tired.
Despite the snarky response you got from someone else, yes, white matter grows in your 30s. Gray matter is what makes the thoughts white matter is the highway they use to get around, so white matter actually has a very significant impact on the brain. It’s being considered as a possible cause so many people have a “mid life crisis” because their brains are actively changing how they think and connect things together
I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like 🥰) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
Just to make some of you feel old: I'm gen Z and I'm 25.
Get off my lawn!
Thanks, I hate it!
Have you had your first wave of Gen Alpha trends and slang confuse you yet?
Not the person you're replying to, but in the same boat, and I for one dipped out at "yeet" and "yoink"
Wait, yoink? Like to snatch something up? That's at least 30 years old from the Simpsons.
Yoink is older than scoobie doo
Zoinks
Yeet is from the Vine era. Gen Alpha has more recent stuff. You know, the whole "skibidi ohio fanum tax amogus rizzler fortnite gyat" thing.
yeah i have no idea what most of those words mean. i only know that "rizz" is a short for charisma, and that gyat means a nice ass, probably
The most confusing part of that is that alpha are millennials' children. Meaning people from my generation spawned those things. What.
Some of us did.
Lots of millenials with Gen Z kids tho
Not a gen Z but I'm actually a fan of both of those words. It's like a forceful put or get.
Now I kind-of want HTTP verbs for those.
Not the same verbs, and specific to Emacs, but I’m kind of sad cutting and pasting won over killing and yanking
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking
Oh me too lol, use them all the time, anything that got popular past that though I need to get my little brother to translate
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't been in playschool when yeet became a thing.
*wouldn’t’ve
Well you know, I grew up in a rural, culturally lagged area, the slang didn't really catch up until tiktok
I am still in school and it confuses me already.
Im 27, very first birth year for gen z. And I'm a teacher and this is a multiple times a day occurrence. Also, them laughing at my slang terms that I don't even realise are slang as I'm using them. And the scary bit is, some of them are 18-20, so still firmly gen z too.
Just to make some of you feel older, I’m gen z and I’m 26
Imagine being born last century
I guess I’m in a very narrow window of people who are gen z but born last century
Last millennia even
You're like the tribe elder of your timeline.
Cheers mate.
No.
💀💀💀
😂
💯
Can someone explain?
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a “old(er) person” thing?
I’ve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called “ironic” among my kids and their friends, so I’m not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
The scariest part is how many I've caught using 😏 as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"
I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
Solid evidence for your case because it's clearly an amused smirk
My boss uses 😈 and 🥵 in our work group chat sometimes. Like, bruv
Freaky ahh boss
Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
They start a Skype call so they can show you live how much it made them laugh
😏🍑
I guess we are too old for this shit to even matter. I mean we lived to see the OG emoji invented, there was no ironic or non ironic way to use it. And there was only one.
The OG emoji were ascii.
I know. I meant the original smiley.
Gotcha :)
Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?
Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
Eh, it is when the "childhood" age ends and development stabilizes for a bit before declining, close enough for shitposts.
Got it, thank you. 😂 😂 😂 I'm glad to see that real comedy isn't dead!
Using 😂 feels very millennial/gen x.
:-P
Let's get you back to the home, buddy. We're watching WKRP tonight, won't that be fun?
Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.
This is peak old person storytelling
ASCII emojis are still real to me dammit
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Kaomoji
I wanna watch Laverne & Shirley
Brought to you by M.A.S.H re-runs and bengay
The only funny joke in the emoji movie compared them to emoticons and that emoticons were old.
Frontal lobes are cool but all that white matter you grow in your 30s is where the good shit happens
Like actually?
No, it's when you become aware of too much shit and enter the next level of needing to learn more coping skills. It's like suddenly growing legs and realizing there's a whole world out there and people who never grew legs are like woah miss bigshot with her LeGssss ooooo so SpEcIaL think you're so FaNcY so WoKe and then form an army of undeveloped against you and they win and you just facepalm for eternity as you scrounge for ways to help them grow legs but they now think growing legs gives you autism or something stupid.
Ignorance is bliss is no understatement. I'm so tired.
Despite the snarky response you got from someone else, yes, white matter grows in your 30s. Gray matter is what makes the thoughts white matter is the highway they use to get around, so white matter actually has a very significant impact on the brain. It’s being considered as a possible cause so many people have a “mid life crisis” because their brains are actively changing how they think and connect things together
I just use that shit cause it's the first thing that pops up, if I have to choose, this is the one I use for everything. 😑
The slanted eyes emoji
I envision him as skeptical
That's a... peculiar way to view it. I like it.
🫵🏼😂
I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like 🥰) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
🧜♂️
🥱
Maybe just let them be?
I wasn't trying to be unkind. It's just Gen Z whose frontal lobes would be just finished developing, that's all.