I fully expect what the first reply to this might be.
I really do regularly
Lots of things have suffered the same fate. Just think of LOL, 😂, or 🤣 for example.
I use it IRL and have used the emoji I think once. So egg on your face, you fucking rube! You’ve never been more wrong bucko!
👍
I’m still using it as an “I got it” hand gesture; if i’m in the middle of some work and someone approaches me to tell me something while i’m busy.
I do
(sorry, not the first)
I love using thumbs up ironically. Like is someone trying to ask for an explanation to why i don’t sit down to shit? 👍
That’s not an example of irony though?
*I love using thumbs up in a way that invokes absurdist situational irony by laying out an absurd situation that the other person expects an explanation for, but instead receives a friendly affirmation in the form of the thumbs up emoji, which exemplifies situational irony by subverting the other person’s expectations of what the situation is actually about.
Still not irony, are you American by any chance?
?? I don’t really understand what your goal is here
Americans tend to have poor understandings of what constitutes irony.
Everyone i know gives thumbs up
👍 same
Same, even my young kids if I ask them a yes/no question while they’re eating to avoid talking with their mouth full.
Wildly untrue. I see thumbs up every day.
That’s very anecdotal, do you know any studies that investigate thumbs up prevalence IRL and online?
But people do. I use it all the time.
i use it a lot… when im on the phone and someone pops in asking question only needing a positive response.
I feel like this is a you thing. I bet if you started doing it around people others would start doing it without realizing.
That might be true, or something local. I posted that this morning then got too busy to check in. I probably should have made it less about “positive/negative” and more about “it’s cool vs not cool” Here is my way too late OP explanation:
I go to a lot of sports events, hockey mostly. Since the 90s my friends and I play a little game. Count the people who give a #1 finger on the jumbotron vs point at their jersey vs thumbs up. Collectively, we have decided that ”kids today” don’t use thumbs up as much as in the past. I also noticed “Let’s go!” Is the cheer these days.
Sorry for oversimplifying my shower thought.
All good. I made a similar extrapolation the other day about pudding not seeming as popular because I wasn’t seeing people eating it or it advertised but after voicing my thoughts to a coworker I realized I’m probably just not anywhere near the target market. I’m not a sugar crazed child watching children’s TV networks and nor do I have kids myself.
I give a thumbs up to tell my scuba buddy that its time to ascend
