@kura the instance I'm on has a bunch of lovely tone indicators such as
and others for situations like this; I'm not even sure where *we* got those from (don't know whom to credit), but the concept of tone indicators is generally pretty widespread, and emojos having their full meaning baked in (into shortcodes and consequently tooltips) has been a brilliant way to provide "explanation on demand" without inconveniencing readers much
@kura that's precisely the problem the emojo format attempts to fix; its shortcode explains what it is (though not all clients make it easy to see them, on desktop web hovering usually helps, but mobile often seems to have nothing?..)
I suppose one would have to previously encounter an unrecognizable emojo to have an inkling to look at its shortcode, which is, admittedly, another random prerequisite and a problem 