I’m not talking about #metoo stuff.
Assuming we’re using a sane IM app that lets us use standard emoji as a reaction to a comment.
I just mean when someone tells you that they did something and the only information that you want to convey back is that you followed them and did the same.
More concrete example that i encounter few times a week: my pal tells me he’s reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply “me too” to let him know it worked for me. (The way it works between us is that we want to go together but since he’s got family etc. i always let him pick the time first and just announce his slot reservation, and i just want to confirm it.)
Another example is if someone says “i signed this petition to support our Czech president who is protecting our democracy” then I want to say “yes I did it too”. Just a nod that we’re standing on the same side.
(Come to think about it, it could technically be used in a #metoo adjacent context, like, if a friend told me “i was abused by my boss” and i could just use the emoji but that would be sooooo wrong on so many levels… You get the point.)
As someone aware of the ancient lore, but am in fact from the early continuance of the Eternal September: the AOL logo
In the early days of the WWW, there was an influx of clueless folks - often AOL users - saying “me too!” on anything and everything with little to no further input. It was among the earliest of Internet memes.
Oh. The AOL logo isn’t an emoji? Then 🔼 and 🔺 are close approximations. I’m not sure what, if anything, can set the colour(s) of those. My emoji picker says the first one should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange as I type in the comment box. The second one is just red.
my /usr/bin/redshift cronjob kicks in at 7 pm and sometimes i don’t realize and i get to be confused by colors. (probably nothing to do with the orange thing though, although i do have experience that my brain can imagine colors)
just sayin’
Nah. It’s not, or wasn’t, Redshift. Nor is it a vision issue. I can have the emoji picker on screen at the same time as my comment and they’re definitely very different colours.
I think the picker uses images, but the on-screen text renderer in Firefox is using the Noto Color Emoji font as a substitution (because the text font doesn’t have emojis) and whatever Firefox has set as the default colours for the glyphs in it.
My picker clearly doesn’t know how to generate the right modifier sequences to change those, and I don’t think it’s worth mucking around with Unicode zero-width joiners and colour modifiers to try to figure it out.
on second thought, i’m 45, old enough to be vaguely aware of ye olde internet culture (i was in uni back then so i saw them baby neckbeards but sadly did not have the good taste & judgment to hang out with them and decided to ruin my brain with beer and weed instead) … at this age we should start getting used to various vision issues :D 🧓