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I think this might actually be more general than just a Reddit thing. When emojis were relatively new you had a couple of cohorts of kids and some middle aged people who went apeshit (or 🐒💩, as these people could genuinely write) about it, often combining series of them with no ironical distance. This was considered annoying by the rest of society at the time, but when you're past 20 you can't really comment on what the kids are up to.

Then the kids themselves started taking an anti-emoji stance, perhaps after their teachers started using them. Minimalist use is still fine, but excessive use has always been kind of annoying, and is just not a good idea if you want to get your point across in a forum with a broad audience.