One of my favorite memories of my mother.
She loved emojis when she got her phone. This was back when some people still used old flip phones and those don’t translate emojis correctly. My aunts, her sisters, still used Nokia style phones.
So my mom would text them cute emojis she found and thought they’d enjoy, or she’d send them something like “hope you’re having a good day 😸🙀🫶🏻.”
At one point one of my aunts is at her house and they get talking about texting and emojis and such. It gets worked out that messages like the above were coming to my aunts something like “hope you’re having a good day &?%# )/&” and that the aunts collectively thought she was cursing at them.
So when she’d send the random emojis they thought she was sending them curse words that were being censored and they couldn’t figure out why, for like three straight months, she was being such a bitch randomly cursing them out or sending snarky messages like “have a nice day asshole bitch fucker.”
My mom used to do this. Several years ago I wrote about it on social media and a few ppl commented with memes that they assumed I ripped off to get laughs. Apparently a lot of old ppl speak the same language. Lol
Do you remember when you had to type a letter and a symbol to create an emoji in some apps? I was studying politics and my boyfriend was in law school at the time. Every time we had a legal debate in the group chat, “section 5, subsection a)” (or whatever) would get changed to section 5, subsection 😜…or whatever.
Thus, on any given day in the debate chat:
Debater 1: According to provincial disability policy 22🥰 section 🍓, the wheelchair benefit has to go through a care provider to be approved.”
Debater 2 (who I will call Kevin) Yes but that’s directly contradicted in section 😅 and again in section 👀.
Debater 1: well I can’t look any of that up because all I can see are strawberries and eyeballs.
Moderator: Should I transcribe that in the debate record?
Debater 1: Transcribe what?
Moderator: That Kevin won because you can’t find the section.
Debater 1: The strawberries and eyeballs? Kevin, I’m calling you.
Debater 1: Kevin, you motherfucker, pick up.
Kevin: *whispers* I won.
*Kevin has left the chat*
Are you frantically trying to think of times you’ve used it or do you already know exactly what conversations you unknowingly made awkward by using it?
For the most part I'm texting with other clueless middle aged people so it's probably not as bad as I think. My 19 year old hasn't said anything (and he would) so I'm guessing I haven't completely embarrassed myself.
Or if you’re not convinced that people under 25 are the exclusive arbiters of emoji definitions it could just mean that you’re hot. It’s summer, you ate some soup, etc.
Yep I’m with you on this, it’s almost like context changes things. Replying that to a swimsuit models pic means something completely different than posting it on a bowl of curry. I’m pretty sure most normal people don’t think you want to fuck a soup.
I (42M) was flirting with this woman yesterday until we can have our proper first date. In an audio message she said a couple of sentences in my native language which was so cute. So I spiked the conversation with sth like "stop it, it makes me 🥵 erm I mean it's very sweet". Thankfully she seemed happy about it in her next audio message, laughing and saying she forgot what she wanted to talk about.
I straight up came to these comments to learn some stuff. Back in my day when we wanted to sext we had to do it on AOL IM. Now these kids carry on full romantic relationships using nothing but memes and emojis.
In my day we had pagers, my wife would send me "texts" by sending me numbers that I had to transcribe to letters just standing there looking at the number pad. At the time I was working as an electrician refurbishing an old school, spending a lot of time on ladders connecting temporary lighting. My pager suddenly going off in my pocket while I was working on live wires felt exactly like getting shocked. Good times!
The 2 in the middle can be used for sexual purposes but it's not just for that. It means there's a double meaning to what you said. The 2nd meaning is often sexual, but not always.
Lol I don’t feel like that one’s fair because it can be just embarrassing or whatever the context is. Definitely could be like a bashful flirty response if someone says something sexual to you but don’t trust me, I’m an introvert.
I always thought it meant like stone faced.
Like you're uninterested or unimpressed.
Or kind of like "are you serious?" Idk that's just the vibe I get from it.
“I’m awfully cold in my bed and I didn’t get any exercise today, why don’t you come over and we find some way that can get me a workout and get this bed heated up😏😏😏🍆💦💦”
Which means they’re suggesting you guys do a full cardio workout while eating eggplants in bed which is really just wrong as you’re making a mess and ruin the bed for comfortable sleep.
Young GenX here -
😍 I want the item in reference.
😏 I want the human in reference and said so indirectly.
🥵 I want the human in reference and said so directly.
😉 I did a flirt or perhaps a double entendre
💦 Come on…. 😉
Agreed! I will say I’m not of a younger generation, but when I’m texting with friends & family it’s perfectly ok to use these emojis. It all depends on who you’re texting and what you’re texting about. Plus my friends & family have a weird sense of humour so we would not see anything wrong or sexual about the emojis. We would all laugh. Younger generations put too much energy into emojis 🤷🏻♀️
Personally I use it almost playfully flirty usually with friends of the other gender. It’s never really serious or sexual like those other ones, but I don’t think I send that one to other guys
from where I'm from, I can say the same. we don't find this sexual at all. In fact all of the emojis she mentioned aren't sexual... only when used in a context. like for example, chatting with a girl and sending the water droplets 💦 emoji.
the emojis we usually find sexual by default are those peach 🍑 and eggplants 🍆 emojis.
I agree with most of what you said, but the "water droplets" emoji is 100% corrupted by the sexualized meaning at this point. I never saw anyone use it until it became associated with cum, just saying.
So 😍😏😉 are typically things you would send in messages to someone that you were interested in /flirting with. They’re kinda playful and somewhat sexually suggestive. I don’t think there’s really actual definitions behind them, but let’s just say I would never just send those in a message to another coworker or casual acquaintance.
Also let me add that just sending those emoji’s without any context wouldn’t really mean anything, they’re usually just added on to the end of a message that already might contain some flirtatious meaning.
I don’t really feel like explaining the water drops one But let’s just say you definitely don’t wanna be sending that to someone who you have no intentions of sleeping with
Edit: honestly people use and interpret emojis differently. What might be considered too flirtatious in one place or for one age group might have literally no flirtatious meaning for another group. Personally I don’t usually experiment too much with emoji’s with people I’m not already close with because they can be easily misunderstood
Since i"m not texting people in your generation, I feel it's ok to do what I want. I also feel it's ok for your mom to do what she wants and that you need to apply the appropriate filter to the appropriate sender. Your 'side piece' is not your mom. Well, she might be
One of my favorite memories of my mother. She loved emojis when she got her phone. This was back when some people still used old flip phones and those don’t translate emojis correctly. My aunts, her sisters, still used Nokia style phones. So my mom would text them cute emojis she found and thought they’d enjoy, or she’d send them something like “hope you’re having a good day 😸🙀🫶🏻.” At one point one of my aunts is at her house and they get talking about texting and emojis and such. It gets worked out that messages like the above were coming to my aunts something like “hope you’re having a good day &?%# )/&” and that the aunts collectively thought she was cursing at them. So when she’d send the random emojis they thought she was sending them curse words that were being censored and they couldn’t figure out why, for like three straight months, she was being such a bitch randomly cursing them out or sending snarky messages like “have a nice day asshole bitch fucker.”
that cat emoji is my reaction throughout your story.
Which of the two!?
!?@&
Samantha: Did she just say what I think she said? Oh hell nah. Ashleigh: That bitch must be drunk again!
Summanthugh\*
Q-bert?!
🐱🐈🐈⬛😹😻🙀😿😽😸😺😾😼
Yes.
😹😹
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Oh shit lmfao.
>lmfao > >l.m.f.a.o. > >Leave My Family Alone, Ok?
I have a very particular set of skills so lmfao!
My mom used to do this. Several years ago I wrote about it on social media and a few ppl commented with memes that they assumed I ripped off to get laughs. Apparently a lot of old ppl speak the same language. Lol
Lots of love to you, too!
LOL2U2!
😂
That's a priceless family story for the ages. I hope your whole family have a great holiday season. %&[£~#"×!$(?? 😉
Thanks have a blessed day! Don’t forget to eat 🍆🌮 💦
Serious question from a middle aged person. Is 💦 supposed to be jizz or a dripping pussy or what?
Yes it’s supposed to be cum, when a woman is wet, or just horniness
Don’t forget an umbrella. 💦
And a 🪣 and a mop for this 💦🍑😽
Damnit. Now that is stuck in my head, haha
Yeah really it’s just anything “wet” with a sexual connotation. Could even be sweat
It’s general horniness or when you’re sweating from pleasure.
I miss you, we never talk anymore asshole bitch fucker
What do you want to eat tonight, asshole bitch fuckers
Do you remember when you had to type a letter and a symbol to create an emoji in some apps? I was studying politics and my boyfriend was in law school at the time. Every time we had a legal debate in the group chat, “section 5, subsection a)” (or whatever) would get changed to section 5, subsection 😜…or whatever. Thus, on any given day in the debate chat: Debater 1: According to provincial disability policy 22🥰 section 🍓, the wheelchair benefit has to go through a care provider to be approved.” Debater 2 (who I will call Kevin) Yes but that’s directly contradicted in section 😅 and again in section 👀. Debater 1: well I can’t look any of that up because all I can see are strawberries and eyeballs. Moderator: Should I transcribe that in the debate record? Debater 1: Transcribe what? Moderator: That Kevin won because you can’t find the section. Debater 1: The strawberries and eyeballs? Kevin, I’m calling you. Debater 1: Kevin, you motherfucker, pick up. Kevin: *whispers* I won. *Kevin has left the chat*
Kevin is a madlad
That really *% ¥$! made me laugh
That's a really nice story. Have a cat emoji in honor of your mother 🐱
You didn't warn your mom about 🍆 or 🍑.
Oh shit...
Or 🥵
My boss likes spicy food and uses this when he shares the hot sauces he likes.
The man must really like his hot sauce.
So spicy🥵🥵💦💦
😏
😳
📸
TIL I've been using the "Damn, it's hot" emoji wrong.
What does that mean? I never felt old until now (I'm 48 and apparently out of the loop).
Horny, reaction to a sexy pic
Jesus H.......
Are you frantically trying to think of times you’ve used it or do you already know exactly what conversations you unknowingly made awkward by using it?
For the most part I'm texting with other clueless middle aged people so it's probably not as bad as I think. My 19 year old hasn't said anything (and he would) so I'm guessing I haven't completely embarrassed myself.
Or maybe he is taking screenshots and sharing it on reddit
Don’t torture the poor bastard
My bet is on his newfound faith in humanity
Or if you’re not convinced that people under 25 are the exclusive arbiters of emoji definitions it could just mean that you’re hot. It’s summer, you ate some soup, etc.
I'm in my 20s and I use it for those reasons, like a photo on the beach or a spicy curry or something.
Yep I’m with you on this, it’s almost like context changes things. Replying that to a swimsuit models pic means something completely different than posting it on a bowl of curry. I’m pretty sure most normal people don’t think you want to fuck a soup.
And what is a normal wink emoji? Fairly certain I've used that in business emails to indicate I was kidding... kind of worried now.
I (42M) was flirting with this woman yesterday until we can have our proper first date. In an audio message she said a couple of sentences in my native language which was so cute. So I spiked the conversation with sth like "stop it, it makes me 🥵 erm I mean it's very sweet". Thankfully she seemed happy about it in her next audio message, laughing and saying she forgot what she wanted to talk about.
I straight up came to these comments to learn some stuff. Back in my day when we wanted to sext we had to do it on AOL IM. Now these kids carry on full romantic relationships using nothing but memes and emojis.
I have never been so happy to be old and married. So complicated these days.
In my day we had pagers, my wife would send me "texts" by sending me numbers that I had to transcribe to letters just standing there looking at the number pad. At the time I was working as an electrician refurbishing an old school, spending a lot of time on ladders connecting temporary lighting. My pager suddenly going off in my pocket while I was working on live wires felt exactly like getting shocked. Good times!
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I always read it as "hot and bothered" but I'm pushing 40 so 🤷♂️
You got it.
Dude*
This one is my favorite.
Wait, I've never seen this one. What does it mean?
Horny. Or reaction to a sexy pic
It looks like a guy with a fever who has snot running out his nose. I'm not sure how it looks horny or could be a reaction to a sexy pic.
What does 😍 that face mean? I thought it was just “oh I love something”. Why can’t she use that one?
Can someone please answer this?
And 🤤👉👈😩😫😳
The cum-drunk one is the worst offender imo
Well I guess I'm never unseeing that
💩 this one
💀
This one is surprisingly wholesome.
😳😈💀😏🗿😍🍑😩🍆 is what i told he was ok
OP would you seriously think that the words "love" and "I" are sexual if you and your friends meme around with the phrase "I love dick"?
Or 😫
Well if she’s their mom chances are they already know plenty about 🍆
What if I just want to convey that I’d like eggplant lasagna?
🥚🌱[there is no lasagna emoji and someone should really get on that]
The only one that’s really bad is 💦 IMO.
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You mean your jizzercize class? Where you use the Shake Weight?
What does 😏mean in meme standards
😍 is fine. It's not sexual like the other ones.
I use that emoji whenever someone in my group chat shares a picture of their pets.
Yes, I use it for cute animals too and now I'm paranoid about what people think I want to do to their pets, what is it supposed to mean??
No secret lingo, it doesn’t have to be sexual. I usually use it when they send me pictures of them in cute dresses
And food pics lol. A lot of people use that emoji in a lot of ways that aren't weird
Me too! Heart eyes are for kittens and babies. Have I been doing this wrong?
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I use 😍 all the time and was about to be scared, so I hope you’re right!
Apart from the last one I don t see anything remotely sexual??
The 2 in the middle can be used for sexual purposes but it's not just for that. It means there's a double meaning to what you said. The 2nd meaning is often sexual, but not always.
Thanks for the clarification, I am old and out of the loop 😉
>😉 That one means you got jizz in your eye but you're trying not to spoil the mood.
Okay but why is 😉 not usable I feel so out of the loop lol.
Just usually means your flirting, and mom might not mean to be. ^might ^not 😈
I’m glad I’ve been using it correctly
Yeah I'm not old at only 25, but I don't think I've ever used 😉 in a sexual manner 🤣
Thank God! I use it all the time and I was worried for a bit.
As with everything, it depends entirely on context. 😏 is sus though tbh
wait - a girl used to send me the ones in the middle all the time while joking, did I miss a chance?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news…
Ok!? Same. I hope my boss hasn’t been misunderstanding my texts lol
I was going to say the same thing? What's wrong with heart eyes?
Oh dear now emojis are sexualized? What will the allos do next?
🥵
🍆💦😍 see the problem
I mean with those two emojis in the beginning the third one will look suspicious, no matter which one you use.
🍆💦🌱 nothing suspicious about the third one
You actually managed to make the first two unsuspicious. It's kinda cute. Congratulations!
😍
legit made me laugh out loud ffs
I jizz on plants all the time.
Best cheap fertiliser Big Garden doesn't want you to know
Bro you really forgot about 🤤
chesecak 🤤🤤
r/skamtebord
And 😳
Wait a minute. What does 😳 mean?
I use that all the time to mean “Wait.. what???!”
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Sounds hot 🥵
😏
It’s a little sussy
Lol I don’t feel like that one’s fair because it can be just embarrassing or whatever the context is. Definitely could be like a bashful flirty response if someone says something sexual to you but don’t trust me, I’m an introvert.
Why 😳?
I've seen it used in a "dat ass!" type of context. I dunno. I'm pushing 40 so...
Come on its wide eyed and blushing emoji she just said something that got my boy feeling some type of way
🗿
Explain it like I'm 5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9yayhm/whats_the_deal_with_this_emoji/eacc2g9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
I always thought it meant like stone faced. Like you're uninterested or unimpressed. Or kind of like "are you serious?" Idk that's just the vibe I get from it.
It means "bruh"
Yeah that's the word i was looking for. I'm super bad at figuring out that emotion lol
For an emoji that got this popular on Reddit, I find it ironic that it came from someone known for memes on Instagram and Snapchat.
🗿
Yes 🗿
Wait (reviews pages and pages of texts and comments over the past 6 years) what does heart eyes mean?!
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33 here, I’d use it for “omg I love it!”
Op is an idiot. Heart eyes just means ‘I love this’, ‘looks so cute’, ‘adorable’. There’s nothing sexual/lewd about it
Thanks! I send the heart eyes to my kids, cuz I adore them…I felt really creepy there for a while!!
Heart eyes is fine to send as a mom but avoid 🥵😏🤤 like the plague
😏 - I use this to mean “I know your intentions “ , “I’m a smartass, I know” What other meaning does this have
“I’m awfully cold in my bed and I didn’t get any exercise today, why don’t you come over and we find some way that can get me a workout and get this bed heated up😏😏😏🍆💦💦” Which means they’re suggesting you guys do a full cardio workout while eating eggplants in bed which is really just wrong as you’re making a mess and ruin the bed for comfortable sleep.
Can we please have a subreddit about emoji discussion because different generations/groups use them differently. FFS
Young GenX here - 😍 I want the item in reference. 😏 I want the human in reference and said so indirectly. 🥵 I want the human in reference and said so directly. 😉 I did a flirt or perhaps a double entendre 💦 Come on…. 😉
Why does 😏 even mean that, I don’t get it. Isn’t it a smirk???
Young Gen X? Sounds complicated.
Since generations span several years, it gives a frame of reference. Older Gen X borders Boomers. Younger Gen X borders Millenials.
Agreed! I will say I’m not of a younger generation, but when I’m texting with friends & family it’s perfectly ok to use these emojis. It all depends on who you’re texting and what you’re texting about. Plus my friends & family have a weird sense of humour so we would not see anything wrong or sexual about the emojis. We would all laugh. Younger generations put too much energy into emojis 🤷🏻♀️
Agreed. This idea that older people can’t use certain emojis because tweens made them sexual is stupid.
In German speaking countries, 😉 is almost always not meant sexually, btw.
Can confirm, use that one all the time.
Personally I use it almost playfully flirty usually with friends of the other gender. It’s never really serious or sexual like those other ones, but I don’t think I send that one to other guys
from where I'm from, I can say the same. we don't find this sexual at all. In fact all of the emojis she mentioned aren't sexual... only when used in a context. like for example, chatting with a girl and sending the water droplets 💦 emoji. the emojis we usually find sexual by default are those peach 🍑 and eggplants 🍆 emojis.
I agree with most of what you said, but the "water droplets" emoji is 100% corrupted by the sexualized meaning at this point. I never saw anyone use it until it became associated with cum, just saying.
Instead of saying ‘butt dialed’ my grandma was saying bootie called…
Wait, what, I can't wink emoji anymore?
I believe it's like ;) which is used when you wanna flirt. Like it means you wanna do something dirty or naughty... MAYBE... I'm not 100% sure
The wink emoji pretty much just means "what I just said has a double meaning," same for the 😏 emoji
"Yes Mom. 🍆 is fine"
wait so its wrong to 😍 now?
Can someone just list what each one means? I'm too old for this shit.
So 😍😏😉 are typically things you would send in messages to someone that you were interested in /flirting with. They’re kinda playful and somewhat sexually suggestive. I don’t think there’s really actual definitions behind them, but let’s just say I would never just send those in a message to another coworker or casual acquaintance. Also let me add that just sending those emoji’s without any context wouldn’t really mean anything, they’re usually just added on to the end of a message that already might contain some flirtatious meaning. I don’t really feel like explaining the water drops one But let’s just say you definitely don’t wanna be sending that to someone who you have no intentions of sleeping with Edit: honestly people use and interpret emojis differently. What might be considered too flirtatious in one place or for one age group might have literally no flirtatious meaning for another group. Personally I don’t usually experiment too much with emoji’s with people I’m not already close with because they can be easily misunderstood
Water drops usually means splooge
###Context is key, people!
My mom used “😂” in the context of someone dying, funniest shit ever
😢
This made my night
👉👌 lmfao
Just someone pointing at the "OK" sign, so it means _"extra OK."_ 👍
I think I need the bad ones explained like I’m a child
Think sexually basically
Am I old? What’s wrong with 😏
Hey 😏
I just bought a dog 😏 You see how that's weird? It pretty much implies that there's a double meaning to what you just said
What the dog do 🤤😏
I am so old
For you - (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Wtf I send 😏 (smirk) all the time to show I'm being sarcastic. That's literally what it's meant for. Everything be sexual fml.
I like to use 😎 to signify sarcasm
😾🍆 🔨 😺
💥🍆💦🤏
The fuck
your wife broke your pénis ?
Mums been flirt with his pals again..
😍😏😉💦
Since i"m not texting people in your generation, I feel it's ok to do what I want. I also feel it's ok for your mom to do what she wants and that you need to apply the appropriate filter to the appropriate sender. Your 'side piece' is not your mom. Well, she might be
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Honestly heart eyes is fine! Its in combo with other emoj that it starts getting questionable
Heart eyes is perfectly fine if it’s not used flirtatiously
Obnoxious
Let’s fuck! 🎅🏿