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

[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

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

Yes they do, but the text response doesn’t really reflect the actual one.