#A THUMBS UP SKIN#

However, a TikTok user named earlier this year, shared a one-minute long video talking about the real meaning of emojis as Gen Z kids use them and the thumbs up emoji was one of them.Īccording to The Sun, Scarlett revealed that the thumbs-up emoji was meant to denote passive-aggressiveness.

It is often sent to display our approval to something or just as a substitute for ‘ok’. However, how many of us know what each of these emojis stands for?Ī popular emoji that almost everyone uses is the Thumbs Up. Who has time to type for that long? With a wide array of emojis to choose from, it is much easier to express our thoughts. Your generation already breaks into a cold sweat when people put periods in their texts, complaining that it’s rude and abrupt.In today’s fast-paced life, most of our online interactions involve the usage of emojis. For you to take one of our most sacred gestures and whine that it hurts your feelings is beyond insulting. We are not past anything, we are still the standard that you whiners try to measure up to. Past it? Past it? Listen, you snot-nosed little brats, we created the It. A recent survey of people between 16 and 29 said that people who use the offending emoji are “officially old and past it.” And in Brazil, making the OK sign accomplishes the very same thing.īut Gen Z is undeterred, and even a little mean about it. But in the United Kingdom, showing the peace sign but turning it around also means the middle finger. In the Middle East, it means the middle finger. It’s not always a happy, optimistic gesture like it is in the U.S. Of course, the thumbs up gesture does not mean the same thing in every part of the world. How can you think that about the thumbs up when there’s a middle finger emoji right there? Who elevated a happy gesture to the same level as the one that tells you where to go? You’d flip me off in return, and we would just be barreling down the road, giving each other the finger, each hoping the other would drive into a truck. You wouldn’t smile and think it was cute. If I flipped you off in traffic, you would definitely say that’s hostile and rude. I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me.”ĭo you know what’s actually hostile? The middle finger. One 24-year-old on the “Adulting” subreddit said, “it’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs-up.”Īnother woman said, “My last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a thumbs up. They also think war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. They think it means the complete opposite of its true meaning. That is, you’re wearing the water skis, not the shark.īut not Generation Z. To Generation X and Baby Boomers - you know, the people who use it correctly - it means “I understand” or “I approve.” Or that you’re ready to jump a shark on water skis. If you have to ask who The Fonz was, you get a thumbs down. When the coolest guy on television gave you a thumbs up, it meant he liked and respected you.

I don’t know who started this nonsense, but we Generation Xers grew up with the Fonzie Salute. That still means what you think it means.Īccording to a discussion on the “Adulting” subreddit, several people felt their older coworkers were being hostile by using the thumbs up until they realized the coworkers intended the symbol’s original meaning. The peach, kiss, and tongue are not ones you should use with someone who is not your significant other.Īnd now, according to some Generation Z kids, the thumbs up emoji means you’re hostile, confrontational, and passive-aggressive, and it makes them anxious.Ĭue the eye-rolling emoji. Some seemingly innocuous emojis have suggestive or explicit meanings. There are even three books written entirely with emojis.Įxcept some emojis don’t mean what you think they mean. They all have different meanings, and people - especially younger people - can have entire conversations with them.

#A THUMBS UP SKIN#

There are currently 3,633 emojis, including different skin tones for faces and hands.

Every year, Apple announces that they’ve issued a new roster of emojis to distract you from the fact that their phones cost north of $1,000 and are now the size of a small child’s head. These colorful symbols are developed by different mobile providers like Apple and Samsung with different faces, hand gestures and everyday objects. Now I have a few favorites I’ll pop into text messages and social media updates occasionally. They seemed juvenile and childish, so I resisted for several years. I hesitated using emojis when they first came out.

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