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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, we've spoken before about how the thumbs up emoji.
Apparently it is very true.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's passive aggressive.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Apparently, gen Z, I mean passive aggressive, full stops a
passive aggressive, capital letters.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
A passive aggressive.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, now apparently the smiley face emoji means something totally
different to them. It's quite sinister. We see it as
a universal symbol of warmth and joy. Yeah, but in
the eyes of gen Z, it's something different. I'm reading
this from an article I saw today. The classic smiley
face emoji now means something completely different to those under thirty.

(01:04):
This is a report in the New York Post. Instead
of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen
as dismissive, passive, aggressive, or straight up sarcastic. So if
you submit some work or you're say you're a boss
and you're our age, and we send a thing saying
I'd love to have that report by Friday, and you
put a smiley face that is seen as completely aggressive, passive, aggressive, dismissive,

(01:26):
all of that by gen z.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
No, I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
How can a smiley face be a bad thing?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, apparently that's people have taken This woman, who was
twenty one, has told The Wall Street Journal she was
taken aback when her older coworkers used the smiley emoji
in emails and texts. She said, I have to remember
that they're older, because I use it sarcastically. She often
views the emoji as conveying a side eye smile rather
than genuine enthusiasm.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
What about that?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
You use it a lot?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And I use it like the crazy wacky face.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's my favorite. I also use the melting face one.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
What's a melting face one? Meaning? Oh God, spare me.
That's how I use it. I get said that a lot.
Fairt What about the spurdy water?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, you send me that?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
What's that? Have you got a lot of leakages at
your he whatever? I mentioned something? You know, spurdy water?
It comes out. But apparently that's sexual? Is it? Like
we all know the eggplant is sex?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, spurdy water. I sometimes send a friend of mine
ones that is just a picture of an asteroid. Because
we used to joke about on hard days, we'd say,
how about we give the asteroid our coordinates. I'm ready
to end it today and now we just if we've
had a strange day, we just sent each other the asteroid.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I remember you sent me that one of Uranus. I
don't think you knew your camera was on, but in
the black hole.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's the fun today. That was jo Cia, name of
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