No way to know what the emotion icon is supposed to express

On my forum we had longer discuss how people are reading that: :folded_hands: Well, it varies so much it is actually useless because of that.

And then we have very widely known example: :eggplant:

It just doesn’t matter what hoovering or long presses gives. Definitions will be wrong and/or outdated, or culturally just wrong.

practical joke of a IT-guy from Facebook (or sign of US-style thinking 😏

Emoji (y) had very special meaning until Facebook changed it to :+1: and one has dirtier imagination that joke is hilarious.

Point is… we should not try explain emojies ever and textforms are debatable

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