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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A lot of us came from reddit where it was considered taboo to use emojis.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also Reddit didn’t support emojis for a long time. But yeah, it was considered very “normie” (hate that term but applicable)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I didn't know that. You don't know the reason?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You looked like you were fresh off the bus from Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But emoticons usually didn't see the same hate though :)