The popular “cancel culture” phenomenon is back again this time bringing down the thumbs up emoji. After a Reddit thread got popular this past week, Gen-Z, those born in the late 1990s to early 2000s, have decided the thumbs up emoji is rude and hostile in a work environment. Many feel attacked when hit with the emoji in a work setting.
The issue Gen Zers are having is that the thumbs up emoji is used in pop culture, sarcastically. Which is opposite to how their older coworkers use the emoji at face value. This is creating a misinterpretation of the emoji between coworkers leaving many younger professionals confused as to whether John is dissatisfied with their work or if he in fact found the work to be satisfactory.
Now Gen Zers are faced with the dilemma of relearning emoji’s with workplace definitions or holding out hope that soon enough older generations will come around to learning the new meanings behind emojis.
While you might expect those confused by the meaning of emojis could just look at the context they were used in, apparently that isn’t happening these days either.
Other previously canceled emojis, especially in work environments, include the red heart, the ok hand symbol, and the checkmark.
Read more at the New York Post.
I will use the thumb up or any other little cartoon I want. No gen z is going to tell me what to do. Take your little baby whinny butts back to your mommy’s basement. The people are done with your cancel culture crap. Do you really think people are going to put up with this ? No. America is done with democrats, woke, cancel or any other culture nonsense.
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Can everyone just grow the hell up? Good Grief!
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Perhaps they could just do the job they are being paid to do instead of looking at whatever screen they are seeing the thumbs up emoji on. Maybe they think it is in reference to where they have their thumb stuck.
Oh, get a life, Gen Z! There is no right to not be offended. Most people use that sign to mean they agree and it’s a positive thing. Don’t try to change it.
This is just ridiculous, thumbs up has been synonymous with a good nod and on for centuries all of a sudden a few ignorant people decide it’s not ok, laughable, throughout this whole shit storm of cancel culture reforms , why is the “ White House “ still standing??, this world has really showed its ignorance , all perpetrated by the ignorance of Democrates, SMH, get a life , sick twisted and perverse are going to be the battle cry of our Nation!!!SMH
Gen Z’ers are sooooo fragile! So soft, so weak! Jello and mush!
Then I will continue to use the thumbs up whether they like it or not!! This only cancels it for them NOT ME or the rest of SANE people!!!-
thumbs down to these morons
My giveashit meter did not even twitch, although I swear I saw it flash a different finger.
If any emoji causes you stress, or causes you to cry, please explain to me why I should care.
Banning “thumbs up” (great job, happy feelings) is consistent with “wokeism” which in my opinion is “dumbism” taught and nurtured in the “University” system which contains mostly Liberals (Not Libertarian, but Socialist /Communists) who “think” for a living, but always proceed from an incorrect premise that all “humans” on earth are “beneath them” mentally and therefore these minions “must” be directed. led, coerced and, by any means necessary, placed in a subservient, worshiping and fawning state so that the “educated elites” may enjoy dominance over the entire world.
To that end they have instructed our children to deny their genders, to feel overwhelming guilt and to be exposed to “deviant” behavior in the name of “tolerance”. They have stopped educating (dumbing children down) on reading, writing and math in favor of “protestation” against every tradition of our society in the name of “equity”. Our children will grow up with no basis of our culture or belief systems which will force them to look for direction to these educated paragons of “elitism” who will be their new “deities”…God Help Them!
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