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30 Old People Using The 😂 Emoji Without Knowing The Meaning Of It

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Mastering contemporary emojis is hard work; in order to use them efficiently, one has to be fluent in Internet culture, and that's not something you become overnight.

But some old people are having trouble with even the most basic emojis. Like the face with tears of joy -- hysterical laughter -- which they use to express sadness. In their defense, it's quite easy to mix the two in digital form if you don't give it much thought or your eyesight is weakening. However, receiving bad news from someone who appears to be so happy about it, they're happy-crying is wrong on so, so many levels.

Continue scrolling to check out what I mean.

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JessG 4 years ago

Well, I guess SOME people look like that crying...

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#2

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Corey Smith 4 years ago

It looks like neither one knows.

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Scagsy 4 years ago

That's a bad one

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#4

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Hans 4 years ago

Haha, savage.

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#5

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Night Owl 4 years ago

He at least helped by showing her the right one

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#6

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Night Owl 4 years ago

Do they use laughing gas?

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#7

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Ilze Darguže 4 years ago

Two high fives and three laughing emojis

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#8

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N G 4 years ago

Why the F are you swearing to your mom

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#9

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JessG 4 years ago

Glad they explained

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#10

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Hans 4 years ago

Evil!

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#11

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ElusiveIntrovert 4 years ago

Or may be your grandma is super happy that she doesn't have to meet you. JK :D

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#12

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Mainecoonsandhuskies 4 years ago

Why do I feel like this is sarcasm

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#13

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Debi Blackshaw 4 years ago

Well, he was really funny

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#14

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Ian Taggart 4 years ago

My condolences. 😂

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#15

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Joonscrab 4 years ago

Oh no :( they genuinely didn't know so let's not be rude.

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#16

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Hans 4 years ago

Ouch

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#17

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Night Owl 4 years ago

Damn, she just showed mom the correct one but mom still insist on the 😂

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#18

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bryguy 4 years ago

Urg that font is dreadful

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#19

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Mikal Du Preez 4 years ago

Cannoli is such a cute name, though

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#20

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JessG 4 years ago

Better charge that phone

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#21

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JessG 4 years ago

Well, they got ONE emoji right

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DanieLegz 4 years ago

The teeth give it away too. Imagine crying and showing your teeth lol

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#23

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Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)

She must have not liked Mrs Comerford (or even cared about her considering she found out after two years)

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Bennett Hansen 4 years ago

EEK!

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JessG 4 years ago

Why not say Gene Wilder? Sheesh

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#26

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backatya 4 years ago

Tell me truth did you really actually pray for them?

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DanieLegz 4 years ago

Grandmas really like.. "See you soon... hop'a'long"

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JessG 4 years ago

Honestly, why don't these people actually *call* for news like this?!?!

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Paul Jordan 4 years ago

Oh muck fee... I read that as I'm so so glad you are suffering... see what this threads done to me??? Evil, evil thread...

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bryguy 4 years ago

Looks like this was from 1999

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#31

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Corey Smith 4 years ago

Not only do you need an emoji lesson, you need a grammar one as well.

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The one and only 3 years ago

eyyyyy representttt (I live in rAlEiGh)

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JessG 4 years ago

Yikes, this whole thing is a mess

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Kaspar Kristiansen 4 years ago

This is actually sad and not funny...Hopefully every one of those "old" people was told what the true meaning of the emoji is, so they correct it.

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Kesam 4 years ago

I agree. But I also see this as a failure of the emoji developers. If you make something people misunderstand a lot, you need to improve it.

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Chich 4 years ago

Well that got tedious after the first three.

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Transat 4 years ago

yes, but I it still makes me laugh a lot

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b l a n c 4 years ago

i find it really surprising that people don't notice the smile on it, but maybe that's just because i'm so used to the emoji by now

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Kaspar Kristiansen 4 years ago

This is actually sad and not funny...Hopefully every one of those "old" people was told what the true meaning of the emoji is, so they correct it.

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Kesam 4 years ago

I agree. But I also see this as a failure of the emoji developers. If you make something people misunderstand a lot, you need to improve it.

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Chich 4 years ago

Well that got tedious after the first three.

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Transat 4 years ago

yes, but I it still makes me laugh a lot

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b l a n c 4 years ago

i find it really surprising that people don't notice the smile on it, but maybe that's just because i'm so used to the emoji by now

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