The Eggplant Emoji Makes You Less Likable, According to New Report (gizmodo.com) 71
An anonymous reader shares a report: Emojis make our lives a lot easier. From actually serving to represent how we're feeling to being the punchline to an inside joke, emojis has revolutionized how we text, tweet, and communicate. With that, Adobe just released a trend report that surveyed 5,000 respondents from across the United States in order to characterize how we use emojis. In their findings, Adobe disclosed that 88% of emoji users in the U.S. reported feeling more empathy toward someone if they use and emoji, while 75% felt more connected to people who used emojis. Meanwhile, 92% of emoji users agreed that using the emoticons can help them communicate across language barriers. These findings make sense as tone can easily be lost across text messages -- ask anyone that uses "lol" these days, they're not actually laughing out loud, they just don't want you to perceive them as threatening.
[...] Adobe reported a top three and a bottom three emoji for flirting. The survey found that Face Blowing a Kiss, Smiling Face with Hearts, and Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes would make someone appear more likable while Pile of Poo, Angry Face, and the less-than-suggestive Eggplant would make someone appear less likable. This is noteworthy since 72% of users will send an emoji in a conversation with someone they are interested in or flirting with -- just steer clear of the eggplant. Interestingly, Adobe found significant differences in how males and females use emojis. 76% of males reported using emoji more during flirting as opposed to the 68% of females that claimed the same, while 27% of men claimed to have ended a relationship with an emoji compared to 15% of women.
[...] Adobe reported a top three and a bottom three emoji for flirting. The survey found that Face Blowing a Kiss, Smiling Face with Hearts, and Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes would make someone appear more likable while Pile of Poo, Angry Face, and the less-than-suggestive Eggplant would make someone appear less likable. This is noteworthy since 72% of users will send an emoji in a conversation with someone they are interested in or flirting with -- just steer clear of the eggplant. Interestingly, Adobe found significant differences in how males and females use emojis. 76% of males reported using emoji more during flirting as opposed to the 68% of females that claimed the same, while 27% of men claimed to have ended a relationship with an emoji compared to 15% of women.
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I was just wondering, how high is the percentage of people who thinks you're childish and not worth their time if you actually use emojis.
Re:Proudly in the 12 percent (Score:4, Informative)
It's worse than that, read the fine print:
88% of emoji users in the U.S. reported feeling more empathy toward someone if they use and(sic) emoji,
It's only the emoji users that like the other emoji users. Go figure!
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Using them very sparingly and carefully is often ok. Flooding your messages with emojis is not and is childish.
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No. Not even using them sparingly is ok. It's like using B, C, R, U as words instead of letters. Also never acceptable.
No, not even on Twitter.
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I disagree. Language is and must be alive to be useful. Sparing use of emojis is a newer thing, but it is part of the written language now.
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Alive indeed, but I don't think that emojies give us an alive language. If anything, it kills our ability to express complex ideas because everything gets abstracted into silly little images.
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That is a problem with the people writing, not the language. Infantile language use by adults was entirely possible before as well.
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Yes, but until now it was not socially acceptable to talk like a 2 year old toddler, you used to be properly ridiculed in that case.
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There are many shades of grey in every aspect of life, including emojis. :)". This way, the conversation becomes both more efficient and richer in meaning.
Instant messaging inherently lacks the richness of other forms of communication, such as audio or audiovisual. If I would like to convey a smile attached to a text message, I could write "I smile when I write [blahblah]", or I could write "blahblah
With that being said, of course there is abuse.
One extreme is when someone sends a text message entirely comp
ldiots (Score:1)
Re:Proudly in the 12 percent (Score:5, Funny)
lol 8->
Men (Score:5, Funny)
We're just always gonna find a way to show you our dicks, even if it's in emoji form.
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"Just as women will find a way to flash their tits."
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Tried to show you mine, but they didn't get through.
They must be too large.
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I'm yet to find an emoji that is small enough.
Which emoji to end a relationship? (Score:2)
I call BS on this. Exactly what single emoji were these people using? And are they sure the person they broke up with knew they'd been broken up with (vs. just getting ghosted)?
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I guess you could send a skull and crossbones?
"You're dead to me!"
Dunno? Seems pretty ridiculous.
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-I hope that wasn't too many words for anyone.
Well, we're fucked. (Score:4, Funny)
We've gone from using pictograms in the Egyptian times, to written languages, and back to pictograms.
Surely, this means we're regressing, and so will return to cave dwellings in short order. /s
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Cyberpunk was right, the new form of illiteracy comes in the way of people only being capable of "reading" symbols and signs, who can't even recognize any kind of relevant writing anymore.
Pretty much functional illiteracy on a new level.
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Pretty much functional illiteracy on a new level.
Remember the pad Dr. Lexus uses in Idiocracy? Icons representing various medical conditions?
Reminds me of the cash registers at Mc Donald's about 10 years ago. I've stopped going to such places, but I remember the cash register: It had a membrane keyboard, with a replaceable insert.. and each button was a picture. Of a burger. Or fries. or combo thereof.
It was.. heartbreaking to see.
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Pictures of the products might be faster than text, rather than dumbing down.
There has been a fair bit of research on this topic. Languages that use Chinese characters are often very fast to scan and search, because the characters are stylized pictures of what they represent. There was a story on Slashdot a few years ago complaining that Japanese websites are massive walls of text instead of using copious amounts of white space and images like Western sites do, with the author apparently unaware that for Ja
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Indeed. And not only that. It seems many people find it perfectly fine to refuse communicating anything even slightly complex.
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That's fine by me, as long as these people accept that I refuse to communicate with them altogether.
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We've gone from using pictograms in the Egyptian times, to written languages, and back to pictograms.
It's worse than that: We've gone to pictograms that can only represent a limited range of emotions that are curated by the people in charge. They're all smiles and hugs and rainbow unicorns.
Where's the emojis for "Fuck you!" or "You're a loser!" or "I hate you!"?
It's literally Orwell's Newspeak, done with pictograms.
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Where's the emojis for "Fuck you!" or "You're a loser!" or "I hate you!"?
Middle finger.. still there at least in ios 15.whatever my phone has. Curiously, the Brit version of this, the "V" with the palm facing the signer, is missing.
But no revolver. Revolver's gone, in favor of a water pistol.
I don't usually use emojis, but am keenly aware of exactly what you're on about.
Puppydawgs and rainbows water pistols, oh my.
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But no revolver. Revolver's gone, in favor of a water pistol.
That's the choice of the font, not unicode. Apple, google and microsoft decided to update their font.
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That's the choice of the font, not unicode. Apple, google and microsoft decided to update their font.
Exactly the point joce640k is making. The gatekeepers are deciding what "revolver" means.
Orwellian Newspeak indeed.
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It's not Orwellian. A private company decides to offer a font that represents the revolver emoji with a water pistol. You are free to write the word "revolver" or buy a different font.
To be Orwellian it would have to be the government mandating that emoji becomes a water pistol.
Over-use of the term is, ironically, kinda Orwellian in that it makes it more difficult to discuss certain topics, which was the purpose of Newspeak.
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Oh get over yourself.
No one's gatekeeping "revolver", because there is no and never was any revolver code point in unicode. The revolver symbol was, as the water pistol is, a choice of the font.
And if that's your bar for Orwellian, then the sentiment is now essentially meaningless.
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It's literally Orwell's Newspeak, done with pictograms.
Interesting. I think you are on to something.
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It's literally Orwell's Newspeak, done with pictograms.
Interesting. I think you are on to something.
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Re: Well, we're fucked. (Score:2)
Kids these days, huh? (Score:5, Funny)
I've always thought that emojis are for people who can't express themselves properly using ASCII Art. ;)
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I thought it's more people who just can't express themselves with anything done by ascii characters. Like, say, writing.
Re: Kids these days, huh? (Score:2)
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Ah, nothing like ASCII art rendition of goatse to make me nostalgic about the old days.
Language barriers (Score:5, Funny)
Before emoji, we couldn't understand you unless we were from the same country. Now we can't understand you unless we're from the same generation.
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Yours is the kind of post that gives me gray hairs when I try to mod something like it: This is either Insightful or Funny, but why don't I have an option for both? (It is both.)
Give Him the Karma (Score:2)
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I'm given to understand that Funny mods up the post but doesn't increase Karma. Since I've been on since the late 90s, I probably hit the Karma cap soon after it was imposed, so it's irrelevant. The cap is, IMHO, part of what keeps Slashdot good. Other sites allow unlimited up-votes and it becomes an absolute whoring for Internet points. It was genius for the developers to realize this early on and fix it. While it's no longer the golden age of Slashdot, it still holds my interest and produces the occa
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Emoji-free zone (Score:2)
Kudos to Slashdot, who wonÅ(TM)t even show normal characters!
By the way, didn't Elon Musk try to break up with Twitter using an emoji?
That guy from Kentucky Ballistics was right (Score:1)
Nobody likes eggplant. [youtu.be]
well duh (Score:2)
The eggplant emoji is synonymous with a dick.
Maybe gay guys are fine with it, but generally nobody else likes "dick" imagery.
Sure some women will claim they're just as visually stimulated by stuff like that as men, but they're bell-curve outliers.
Hint: Don't send anyone anything synonymous with a dick and you'll be more likable. Pretty simple. Men are so often ridiculously dumb when it comes to sex and women, it's a wonder any of us get laid.
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Maybe gay guys are fine with it, but generally nobody else likes "dick" imagery.
Well, yeah, but we don't bother with thinly veiled innuendo and emojis. A picture of the goods is usually in most gay dudes' dating profiles. Although, times may have changed a bit in the roughly decade and a half since I settled down.
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And I didn't mean to sound like I'm disparaging that at all. If it's welcome by the receiver, then by all means SEND IT! (and I hope you get laid, it's a wonderful thing)
The problem as I see it is that (since time immemorial) young men think young women think like them. That is patently, provably, demonstrably untrue and leads to young men saying/doing things that they THINK will get them laid that is most usually having the opposite effect.
The fact is that between gay men, yes, we can pretty comfortably p
Emojis suck (Score:2)
I swear, all face emojis look the same unless they are at a 32 point font.
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That is only because the concept got degraded from the original ASCII to cater to the uneducated masses...
Vegetarian's dilema ... (Score:3)
The Eggplant Emoji Makes You Less Likable
Guess that limits texting about what's for dinner ...
Poo emoji (Score:2)
Bananas are better (Score:2)
The download page for the report appears to be this one: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publ... [adobe.com]
The actual report, unsurprisingly, is in PDF format. I've not linked to the file directly as it has the word "track" on it ;-).
The report itself is 111 pages of graphics. I managed to do a simple PDF search and found the section of the report on the eggplant being among the "less likable emoji". But I could find no mention of bananas. Perhaps it's just listed in a chart, given the highly graphical nature of the report
'emojis has revolutionized' (Score:2)
Eggplant emoji isn't about being liked (Score:2)
n/t.
Kid Icarus (Score:4, Funny)
Actually it's from playing the NES game Kid Icarus and getting turned into an eggplant over and over during the fortress levels. I think most people who played that game are still emotionally traumatized when they see eggplants.
in related news (Score:2)
emoji make you less likeable
Why is it a thing? (Score:2)
I've never understood the eggplant emoji. Why did it become one before many other more relevant objects and more prevalent vegetables, and what kind of weird looking body parts are you guys rocking?!
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Well duh, Captain Obvious (Score:2)
"LOL" (Score:2)
Don't overthink it (Score:3)
Emojis have never been about language. They are a tacky decoration. People who litter their posts with emojis are like those people who glue plastic sequins all over their picture frames, loudly proclaiming to the world how cute they are before you say the wrong thing and they go all Karen on you.
I try not to judge people who use them, but I'm still pissed at how much infrastructure had to be rewritten to support emojis, and all the security and filtering problems that resulted. On that note alone, I despise emojis and how aggressively the industry has been pushing them onto the general public.
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Emoji are the modern version of smilies like :-)
Smilies, and emoji, can convey important information about tone that often doesn't come through from just the text.
The origin of emoji is Japan. The word literally means "picture character" in Japanese, although the pronunciation got mangled in the English speaking world. Anyway, they were invented back when flip phones were dominant and people had to type on a number pad. You may recall that when using a keypad for English the phone would make extensive use o
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Emojis have never been about language. They are a tacky decoration. People who litter their posts with emojis are like those people who glue plastic sequins all over their picture frames, loudly proclaiming to the world how cute they are before you say the wrong thing and they go all Karen on you.
I try not to judge people who use them, but I'm still pissed at how much infrastructure had to be rewritten to support emojis, and all the security and filtering problems that resulted. On that note alone, I despise emojis and how aggressively the industry has been pushing them onto the general public.
Anything mixed in with a message is about language. They can substitute for certain written words, act as punctuation, or add context in the form of decorations. In every case there's information being communicated.
A case in point, the eggplant emoji. Women don't dislike it because it's an ugly piece of decoration, they dislike it because of the specific information the guys who send it are communicating.
Not surprising about the Eggplant emoji (Score:2)
Still better than... (Score:2)
The swastika ascii art they used to spam here on slashdot.