Every time somebody sends me a thumb I take it as “whatever you say you fucking dumbass” and it pisses me off.
And ya, I’m aware that that the replies are going to be thumbs, let’s see em ya jerks!!!
It really depends on the age of the sender.
30s and younger: Fairly dismissive response. Not outright insulting but pretty rude.
40s and older: genuinely meant as an earnest acknowledgement of your message.
Oh wow. I thought only I had an issue with this.
Personally i do. Same as the 😉 wink smiley… comes across as a bit of a cunt in my opinion.
Could be because there were shitty people that would use it in condescending ways at me.
I found it rude but not anymore and I have to really think about it. On facebook messenger, the default emoji is 👍 and during my stay on that platform (~2011-2017) it was regarded as a rude, low effort dismissal, at least inside my circles.
Nowadays, i double take and find that people don’t indent to be rude to me. After all, i’m not on facebook anymore and these people weren’t in my circle.
Depends on context for me.
It’s a pretty simple “acknowledged” to me. It’s a “I’ve not just seen your message, I’ve read it, and I have no further comments”.
I don’t think I’ve ever interpreted it as rude.
no definitely not. but that’s probably because i don’t associate with people who think im a piece of shit
Nah, and to be honest it threw me off to hear some people interpet it that way. It’s always meant “acknowledged” or “I agree, no notes” to me.
If I wanted to be rude I’d do this instead: 👍🙄
No big deal at all
Not really, maybe passive agressive at times, but I always see it as casual agreement.
It says we are all a bunch Fonzies here, and what is Fonzie?
Reference to an old American television show where the “cool” character used to make the thumbs up gesture.
Don’t touch the leather.
👍
I used to but then at work everyone always uses the thumbs up on slack. So I got used to it. Nowadays it depends on the context of the convo
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