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Ororo Munroe's avatar

I've moved beyond Emoji's and just use Bitmoji's now. Bwaha. Love your "shower" definition. LOL. And I let out a loud bark of laughter when I read the mob boss convo. Can you imagine? Lordt.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Love making you laugh. 🙏

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Bill Southern's avatar

Wait, you mean there's more emojis than this one: 💩?

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. 🚽

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

🌹 been using these 🌹 oh and lots a 🍝🍝

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Flowers! What a great idea!

Whats the last one? Fried eggs? Oh! Spaghetti!

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Mark Dolan's avatar

I love emojis and part of the fun is the conjecture of what they mean! Since your hubby is a techie he might agree with this take. Most EVERYTHING on the internet gets ruined because of the propensity of Private companies to build walled gardens. Emojis, like most every enjoyable part of the web started out as an open source project with sharing. The dumb companies who abuse this stuff would never have the vision to create them and share. Hard to make money. In such a SENSIBLE WORLD built on standards we would be able to hover over an emoji and see what it means. Asinine companies privatized and stopped doing standards. Life would be better without walled gardens but people LOVE their blue and green bubbles.

This one was shared with my a LONG TIME from a friend who loves everything music. Looking them up is fun. Wouldn't it be nice if we just had one dictionary?

BTW I love your descriptions of the emojis :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_Business_Suit_Levitating_emoji

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Hi Mark. Great points. Love the levitating businessman. A dictionary or app is a good idea. 👍

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Mark Dolan's avatar

Your posts are fun and so creative. Forrest Gump-like and a box of chocolates -- never know what I'm gonna get.

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Janice Walton's avatar

Hi Very cool and funny. I better get on board!!!!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Emoji train is fun.

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Janice Walton's avatar

🚂. Thanks!

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Terry Freedman's avatar

This was a good laugh. You've reminded me that I was going to write a story using only emoji. A bit if a challenge! When I was a child I used to love pictogram stories, a similar thing in some respects. As for understanding emoji, I think many are intended to convey a sense rather than a definitive meaning. That's my excuse anyway.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Would love to see an emoji story. Thx for reading!

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Meg Oolders's avatar

I adopted the purple heart emoji at some point in my Substack journey - mostly because it matched my Stock Fiction motif. But now I use it EVERYWHERE. 💜 I also use 🥂 in lieu of 🙏🏼so I can feel edgy and unique. 😉 Lately I've been using 🪄and 🦄 more, sort of ironically to suggest I believe in magic or the power of wishy thinking when I usually feel more 😏 (smug) and 😡 (p.o.'d) about it. I also really enjoy the middle finger emoji which my phone allows me to use in texts but my computer doesn't allow me to use in emails or in your comment section. 🫠

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Your emojis are somehow more expressive coming from you. 😊

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Meg Oolders's avatar

😍

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Anne Kadet's avatar

I loves emoji and this one 👹is my fave!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

That’s a good one. A cartoon devil.

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Katharine Strange's avatar

Love your list! As an elder millennial, I have the worst of both worlds: frequent text tone misunderstandings with my Gen x friends and getting roasted by the Gen zs for using emojis and gifs. I will never stop using gifs!!!!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Oh no. Hopefully, they forgive you for being “old.” Hehe.

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Donna McArthur's avatar

You're interpretation of these emoji's are the best! As you know I am a big emoji user with very little variety on which ones I choose. I throw the ❤💕's around liberally because I love how they allow me to spread the love that I do truly mean. I know - 🤮, but true!

My husband only recently started using emojis and it was hilarious to watch him figure it out. At first he was so proud when he would send one that he would tell me every time!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Go hubby.

I feel your love thru your words but the emojis are icing on a love-cake.

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Amanda Jaffe's avatar

❤️👍, CK!

I tend to go with compound emojis, to convey greater depth of feeling. My go-to these days is 😭😂, which is completely different from 😂😭. Emoji grammar. It's real.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

You have a great point. The order of posted emojis is crucial.

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

I’m sick but can still do jazz hands.😂😂😂😂

🧖‍♀️ Currently busy becoming fluffy.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Becoming fluffy. 😂

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Ofifoto's avatar

Hilarious. Literally 😂, signed 🤓

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

🤣😆👏

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Chris Stanton's avatar

“I just got out of the pool” 😂 (That one’s either I’m crying from laughing or I banged my shin on the coffee table)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Laughing better than shin busting.

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Tina Neidlein's avatar

My most-used will always be 😎 because then it assures you that I’m cool, even if you think emojis aren’t. (I also like to pepper in a 🆒 here and there for extra assurance.)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

And “cool” could work in almost every situation.

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

I really like marshmallows being roasted on your head. It's much better than a shower cap on fire, which was how I previously thought of that one. I also love Jazz Hands. An emoji combo I often use for the seizure & creative worlds is: 🧠⚡️... feels so potent!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

For you it can also work as “brilliant idea.”

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