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I feel like emojis can serve as useful tone markers. Like /s but for many different emotions and intentions than just sarcasm. βItβs raining today πβ comes off differently than βitβs raining today πβ does.
I also feel some people just use them for visual noise, and because emojis are βthe thing the kids doβ semi-relevant emojis get spammed where they arenβt needed. For example, βlook at my cat ππ±πΎβ. That annoys me. I admit maybe itβs just annoyance with no actual reasoning behind it. It might be annoyance a lot of other people share given how unpopular emojis were on Reddit.
I donβt think we need to be as emojiphobic as Reddit, but we probably β donβt π want them spammed βοΈβοΈβοΈβπ everywhere πππ either.