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[–] Aquila 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Answering "thank you" to "I love you" is a polite way to deal with unwanted advances of another person. The reaction emoji under the message is commonly interpreted as "thank you".

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You love me? I'll pray for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That seems worse than "thank you"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Life goes downhill sometimes

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

But whatsapp has had reactions forever

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've always been torn on whether it's supposed to be a high five or praying hands. Is thank you really a common meaning?

Emojis are pretty hard for my autistic ass.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the "official" meaning: Thank you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

The official name of the emoji is simply "folded hand". It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It's on page 11 on the original proposal: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf

I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral "folded hand" so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Commonly high fives arr given by the palms of the same hand therefore the thumb would've been visible at least on one of the hands if ot was a high five emoji

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So this is how I find out I've also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Language is versatile, as long as people understand which you mean, feel free to use it in whatever way works for you 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

🥺🙏 you can submit a high five emoji idea here, but I haven't checked if there is actually a high five emoji or whether or not it has already been submitted https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The "murder weapon" likely refers to the hurt feelings of the person making the advance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

....is that not what the 👍 is for? Or is that too obvious a 'cool, now fuck off' response?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's supposed to mean "thank you"? I always thought it was a begging gesture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Depends on culture I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I use it as either high five or thank you. It's usually obvious to my interlocutor because they know my feelings towards religion

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

seeing 🙏 as a high five and not a praying gesture makes it even more harsh

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

On most platforms you can type ' pray' and it will give this one: 🙏 for high five: ✋.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The other great ambiguity is hug/jazz hands. 🤗

I'm sorry your mom just died. *jazz hands*

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

This is better for hug 🫂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Always thought it was "no thank you".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Well, according to Snapchat, it’s both :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

definitely looks like two hands high-fiveing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It was intended to be folded hands of an individual, and not a high five - according to the body who standardizes emojis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Been there forever on signal and telegram?