FlamangomanDo you interpret a đź‘Ť as a rude reply?
ZakIt depends on what it’s in response to.
Dinner at 6 at Greasy Spoon? đź‘ŤEntirely reasonable.
Should we do the project in COBOL? đź‘ŤEntirely unreasonable, but not rude.
My cat just died. đź‘ŤRude.
I guess I just picture a chat as a textual representation of a conversation and if I said to you, want to get dinner at 6, and you replied đź‘Ť in real life, I would cancel the dinner lmao
I see where you’re coming from now. In most English-speaking cultures, it is not conventional to use hand gestures as a substitute for spoken words in a conversation. Breaking social conventions for no apparent reason is at least potentially rude.
You’re translating those conventions directly to chat. Chat is not spoken word, and it is conventional to use emojis, at least the really unambiguous ones, instead of typed words in chat some of the time. People do not usually do this with any rude or insulting intent.
I appreciate the level headed reply in the sea of insanity I have started with this thread.
Honestly, I don’t interpret it as something malicious ever either, like I don’t think everyone is actually telling me to fuck myself, it just reads that way to me.