@danbruno omg other people do this on slack too? 😂

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@danbruno I feel called out

@danbruno You rang?

@danbruno How else are you supposed to make the work Slack fun?

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@danbruno lol i figured this was kind of an autism dogwhistle

i totally do it just a liiiittle bit to signal to the right coworkers that i'm the cool kind of weird like them

@danbruno@xoxo.zone Emoji reactions are also on other Fediverse platforms, so:

@danbruno@xoxo.zone 🚌

@danbruno Me too! I also love inside jokes, like on my Discord chat, anytime someone says "fish" you do an egg emoji, and vice versa.

@danbruno Then there's also when people decide to cobble a word together and you get a reaction line that says 🅱️ 🇻 🇸

@danbruno gonna start doing this but not using emojis anywhere else just to confuse people

@danbruno This is far and away my favorite thing to do on any form of reactionable media.

@danbruno ✉️

@danbruno I truly have never in my life been called out like this before

@danbruno :discord:

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I think 🧠 my favorite use of emoji 🤩 responses 🗣️ on Slack/Discord/etc 💬 is when someone 🧑 just latches 🏷️ onto a particular word 📠 in a message ✉️ and attaches its emoji 🤧, with no semantic 🇦 content 🛍️ intended. E.g. someone'll say 🎤 "Sorry 🙇‍♂️, the bus 🚏 is running 🏃 late" and someone else will just slap a 🚌 🚌 on there to confirm 🧾 that they did indeed notice 👓 and recognize the word "bus"

Sorry, I spent too much time on this.

@danbruno there's some funny Matrix bots doing that automatically too, like any message containing 'cat' (even as part of a word) got a cat emoji react

@danbruno I always wondered if I was being too weird by doing that, I saw it but had nothing constructive to add so 🍍

@danbruno Much like reactji in general tend to get used as 'body language' analogues (See: Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough), I like thinking of that sort of thing as roughly fitting the same role as an "uh huh", nod, hand gesture, etc.

"I'm here, I'm listening, I don't want to interrupt, keep going"

@danbruno I've taken to responding to one-emoji messages with a reaction emoji of the same emoji

@danbruno :hecko:

@danbruno it me

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@danbruno 🅱️🇺🇸

@danbruno the digital version of driving past a field with horses and saying “horses” out loud