Generation Z is trying to cancel the thumbs-up emoji, among others, for being “rude” and “hostile.”
In a Reddit thread, a 24-year-old wrote that the emoji should “never [be] used in any situation.”
“The thumbs up emoji is used to be really passive aggressive,” the post reads. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up.”
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“Everyone my age in the office doesn’t do it, but the gen X people always do it,” the post continued. “Took me a bit to adjust and get out of my head that it means they’re mad at me.”
Another Reddit user replied that it seemed “hostile.”
“I understand what you mean, my last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a ?,” the response stated. “I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me, like an acknowledgment but kind of saying ‘I don’t really care/am not interested.’”
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Using the thumbs-up emoji was also noted as being a sign that someone is “officially old and past it,” according to the Daily Mail.
In a poll of 2,000 people between the ages of 16 and 29, the thumbs-up emoji is joined by the red love heart, the OK hand, the smiling poop, the laughing-crying face, and the grimacing face as emojis that make a person look “old.”
