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You've Probably Been Using This Emoji Incorrectly

You've Probably Been Using This Emoji Incorrectly

I certainly have.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

Many of you will agree that emojis are a majorly important factor of texting.

Some texts find much more depth with a well placed, adequate emoji.

However, some will be used blindly, without knowing the actual meaning.

This, for example.

To me, it looks like that face you make when you let out what you think will be a silent fart, but then a little bit of poo tries to escape your arsehole.

Therefore using it any situation that would promote the feeling of shock or uncomfortableness would be acceptable to me.

However, the same emoji appears as a big smiley face emoji on Android phones. Meaning that you've probably been using it wrong a lot of the time.


So if you've text someone with that emoji after a sentence about struggling to make it to the toilet, you've made it look like you're really happy about it.

I wouldn't worry if you've been misinterpreting it, not only because it's only texts and you should be conversating in real life, but also because a study found that this happens all the time.

"Emojis are used alongside text in digital communication, but their visual nature leaves them open to interpretation. In addition, emoji render differently on different platforms, so people may interpret one platform's rendering differently than they interpret another platform's," a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota found.



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Topics: Android, phone, iPhone