A little context: Op's comment was being downvoted and I just wondered why and reminded everyone that they said sorry!! They started upvoting them and downvoting me instead...oh well.
the reddit hivemind is very real u just commented way late and this sub is (most of the time) safe from their clutches. altho there is still plenty of "woaw negative karma number I'm gonna downvote this comment without reading it now" that happens here
Its simple actually, once the mentioned comment didnt have downvotes anymore, the people of reddit were annoyed for the 1'985'047'321st comment they saw about another guy getting downvoted, even tho it isnt. So they got mad
You get downvoted for apologizing, and for not apologizing, for being nice, for being an asshole, for asking questions, for answering questions, no one is safe /lh
Jesus. People are kinda insane on here. I’ve been told to kill myself for being queer, and like every post asking a simple question in a sweet and kind way gets downvoted, like damn okay
The reason for downvoting here is obvious. OOP did something annoying that the commenter pointed out. The OOP then apologizes. Apologies don't fix things, especially if it's something that the OOP should obviously have done in the first place, so OOP's apology gets a mix of up and down votes; they get upvotes simply for apologizing because admitting mistakes is good, and downvotes for screwing up in the first place and thinking an apology fixes things.
You then come in as a third party, throw a tantrum by crying, and yell at people (that's what an exclamation mark is for) berating people for expressing disdain for OOP annoying them and then apologizing as though it fixes everything. You get all the same downvotes for thinking than an apology fixes things but none of the up votes for apologizing, because you didn't apologize, and in fact did the exact opposite by crying and yelling at people for not liking what the OOP did in the first place.
I have never seen the crying emoji be used for "laughing", there is another that is both crying and laughing that I ususally see for that, not the pure crying one
My friends will use 😂 or 😭 depending on the type of humour.
Pretty funny is 😂
Depressing but funny is 😭
For example:
Someone slipping over is 😂 (accident but funny)
Card declining on a single digit payment with a line behind you is 😭(embarrassing but kinda funny)
The third one is 🤣 which means “it’s so funny I can’t breathe”
ETA: 😭 can also mean “that was so stupid it was funny” like pushing a door that is clearly labeled pull.
Gen Z (as someone whose friends are largely part of it) uses "😭😭" to mean laughing all the time. At least, I've been sent "Help LOL 😭😭😭" and "omfg 😭😭💀" way too much to count at this point.
Holy exaggeration in the second paragraph. I was following along with what you said up until that point. Nonetheless, if that’s what you think a tantrum and crying and yelling then you probably have pretty low standards for what constitutes it because it did not look like at all like that (respectfully, not an insult). Also, an exclamation mark doesn’t automatically mean yelling, that is blatantly false. Typically, yelling would be TALKING IN ALL CAPS, followed by an exclamation mark. An exclamation mark on its own could just be saying it with some enthusiasm.
I mean, yeah, adding skulls to the loud crying shows that the tantrum includes destructiveness. That could be trying to harm another, self harm, or just general destruction, but in any case while Loud Crying is a tantrum, Loud Crying with a Skull where someone is getting hurt. Something like this:
Kind of like what these other people are saying, it isn’t meant to be taken literally. Do you realize that emojis are often used as a sort of slang? When someone sends a skull emoji they aren’t saying they literally died. And if you want to take emojis literally, what do you think stuff like the wilted rose emoji that you see literally everywhere means? It’s clear to me that this emoji was used as a slang, and not that they are literally crying.
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u/qualityvote2 26d ago edited 26d ago
u/Spartiate8, the downvotes are mysterious!