Thumbs up is such a common emoji but almost nobody gives IRL thumbs up anymore.

[paulzy@lemmy.world]

Unpopular opinions are one of my specialties.

[figjam@midwest.social]

I give a thumbs up to tell my scuba buddy that its time to ascend

[possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip]

I use it on Teams

[possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip]

What about fighting Sith lords?

[benleman@lemmy.world]

(sorry, not the first)

[pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works]

It’s definitely the way my ex wife uses it. So it just has a negative connotation to it for me.

[fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I love using thumbs up ironically. Like is someone trying to ask for an explanation to why i don't sit down to shit?

[agent641@lemmy.world]

I use it on Skype. Not just video, but in chat as well

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

I'm still using it as an "I got it" hand gesture; if i'm in the middle of some work and someone approaches me to tell me something while i'm working.

[corrodedcranium@leminal.space]

All good. I made a similar extrapolation the other day about pudding not seeming as popular because I wasn't seeing people eating it or it advertised but after voicing my thoughts to a coworker I realized I'm probably just not anywhere near the target market. I'm not a sugar crazed child watching children's TV networks and nor do I have kids myself.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

That's not an example of irony though?

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

WOAH why are you pointing cocked finger guns at people? That's dangerous.

[hasturinyellow@lemmy.world]

I use it IRL and have used the emoji I think once. So egg on your face, you fucking rube! You've never been more wrong bucko!

[fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

*I love using thumbs up in a way that invokes absurdist situational irony by laying out an absurd situation that the other person expects an explanation for, but instead receives a friendly affirmation in the form of the thumbs up emoji, which exemplifies situational irony by subverting the other person's expectations of what the situation is actually about.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

Still not irony, are you American by any chance?

[etzbetz@feddit.org]

I really do regularly

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

Lots of things have suffered the same fate. Just think of LOL, , or for example.

[fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

?? I don't really understand what your goal is here

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

Americans tend to have poor understandings of what constitutes irony.

[crimsonpoodle@pawb.social]

People still laugh