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Why do some emoji look familiar?
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jenniferdaniel.substack.com
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lacieargyle
7 hours ago
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7 hours ago
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keatonwurt
7 hours ago
Yet I don't understand the smile with cracks... Isn't the textual description in the article the exact same you'd use for upside down face?
JohnFen
3 hours ago
My friends use the upside-down face to mean "reacting to something silly" (the tongue-sticking-out emoji means "I did/said something silly")
But this is both the strength and weakness of emojis: they don't really have universal meanings.