For my interviews, I talked to two of my friends who are active texters, social media users, and emoji users. One is Natalie. She\u2019s in her late twenties and is a talent manager for TikTok stars. The other is Victoria. She\u2019s in her mid twenties and operates her own small business.<\/p>\n
Q1: How frequently do you use emojis?
\nV: I use a lot of emojis, mostly just with friends though.
\nN: For me it really depends on who I\u2019m talking to. Like if there\u2019s a serious conversation, I\u2019m not using them. But if it\u2019s informal or just messing around in group chats I use them pretty often not a ton. And I I use different emojis with different friends. I use a lot of gifs too though.<\/p>\n
Q2: Do you use emojis in text differently than in social media?
\nV: Yes! I use emojis so much more on social.
\nN: Same. I think social media is definitely the emoji hub. Like comments are all emojis and captions are all emojis. I know a lot of my talent take a long time trying to pick the right emoji for their posts.<\/p>\n
Q3: Do you feel like everyone thinks emojis mean the same thing?
\nV: Yes and no. I feel like the context really matters. Like crying laughing could be super mean or like I\u2019m dying laughing that was so funny.
\nN: Half the time I\u2019m not sure what the emoji I\u2019m using even means. Like the one with the hands I thought was like spreading happiness but it\u2019s actually a hug? I think? I still don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Q4: Did you know a lot of emojis have hidden\/alternative meanings?
\nV: Basically every emoji has some sex\/drug secondary meaning, and I don\u2019t even know all of them. One time I was posting something on TikTok and a friend texted me to be like why did you use the corn emoji? You know that means porn right? You tagged your post as TikTok porn? And I was mortified.
\nN: Yeah I feel like I know a few. A lot of times though I just hear about them from someone else who\u2019s like did you know that emoji also means this? I honestly don\u2019t know where people come up with this stuff.<\/p>\n
Q5: Are you ever worried you\u2019re using an emoji wrong or someone will take it the wrong way?
\nV: Yes! I feel like I can\u2019t use the eggplant emoji for anything other than a dick or people will just assume that anyway. Can you imagine if I texted someone that I\u2019m going out to buy some eggplant emoji? They will all think I\u2019m talking about buying sex or something.
\nN: Someone told me that No one uses the thumbs up emoji anymore and if you use it you\u2019re considered old, so I stay away from that one now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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