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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by happybadger@hexbear.net to c/emoji@hexbear.net
 

https://hexbear.net/post/7364691

Here's an alternative for Lemmy since fediverse doesn't fit:

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These hyper processed face shots are so creepy, like these people want to look like they live in the uncanny valley.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone else called the comparison in the original thread. He has the absurdist dark-wholesome vibe of a Tim Heidecker or Tim Robinson character. I tried to grab the exact expression which would lend itself most to a "Reddit moderators WILL be treated like celebrities or influencers" Joker edit.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Someone else called the comparison in the original thread. He has the absurdist dark-wholesome vibe of a Tim Heidecker or Tim Robinson character

Hey, that was me! quokka-smile

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, this rules

This is like a og Fallout talking head

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait to wait three seconds for the CD drive to jump into action and load the sound file and five frames of animation of him saying this line

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna pick the mean dialogue choice and watch as he frowns angrily at me while going on a diatribe about his superiority

Then I'll just mag-dump a mini gun into him

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Ah, summoned again. My Lord does so enjoy that, as is His prerogative. I'll assume you're done for now.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago

Why does he look like a cleaner but yet also worse version of a certain lemmy world mod?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm all for bashing reddit/lemmit mods, but I don't think it's productive to attach this fellow's face to it because it will immediately be used like pol face.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I haven't made a emoji out of the other meme images of stereotypical mods for that reason. If the source of the image is just someone who looks funny, it will be used to bash people who look like that more than it is to bash people who think like the thing we're attacking.

With this one I put it in the same kind of category as meemaw. She looks funny, but we have her over any other elderly person because she's an antimask protestor raiding the US capitol. This guy was the lead moderator of a big anticommunist subreddit that is most noted for constantly harassing ones related to left-wing streamers. He tried to scam his userbase and when removed by the admins did this 20 minute melodramatic thermonuclear video manifesto calling for the other mods to rise up. The context behind it makes it something beyond just a nerd stereotype that would be used to blindly attack nerds like me, especially with me moderating way too many subreddits.

edit: And doing this exact thing during the moderator blackout protests a couple years ago. This image is me staring into the abyss and it staring back.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we need emoji purge :meow-purge:

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We definitely have way too many, but I like the freedom it gives me to combine ones that have the hyper-specific emotion I want. Five years on here has only taught me that there is a profound difference between kitty-cri , kitty-cri-screm , kitty-cri-texas , and kitty-birthday-sad despite all of them being the same fundamental image.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i have been advocating that someone with access just does scan by emoji name and drop low uses ones.

also it's obviously pls-no, noooo, noooo-amerikanly, and that fucking sucks-kitties

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You've also reached the point of fluency where you understand the music behind the words. We're building a brave new language out of nonsense, where I can make Elmo burning alive in his cybertruck out of simple shapes:

triangle-bottom-right elmofire border-middle-horizontal-square filled-square triangle-bottom-left

filled-circle filled-square filled-square filled-square filled-circle

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

rebus+dada+okbuddy. Hexbear's emojipasta is core to its identity. Otherwise the only dada comes from remixing posts from other websites and public statements.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

We gotta be able to do stuff like stalin-spoon maduro-katana-2

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Doesn't even include the owl

rebus owl

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Na, I want even more emojis but we should each have an emoji favorites list so it's easy to get the ones we each like most

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

it's more about them loading slowly when i search, than some general hatred of emojis kitty-cri-potato

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Who would win, Angelina Jolie or the moderator of "pisspig foot pics"?