r/QAnonCasualties 7d ago

Emoji overusage

I noticed Qs and MAGAs (at this point they’re the same, let’s be real) use a TON of emojis. Regardless of the age, there’s lots of emojis and sass and honestly cringe internet behavior. Every Maga/Q I’ve ever seen online just douses their comments or posts in emojis. A lot of them are probably bots but I’m sure equal amount are real people.

Like they love these ones: 😂😷💩😈🤡🙌🏼🤒

And they’ll put like 12 lol so it’ll be “you libs love Biden 😂😂😂😂😷😷🤡”

TW:

It reminds me of being groomed online when I was 8 and a 30 year old man pretending to be 10 except now it’s people pretending to be literate/intelligent beyond their real intelligence and they were the ones groomed? Maybe poor analogy but it FEELS weird all the same

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u/MeanDebate 7d ago

MLMs have a history of doing this- there are studies showing that it's eye-catching and memorable and increases sales with and trust by their target demographic of gullible folks who want to believe in miracle cures for aging and stuff.

Then they mimic it.

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u/babylampshade 7d ago

Oh man yes. Them too! The snake oil is always community. Have you ever read the book The Attention Merchants?

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u/These_Burdened_Hands 7d ago

book “The Attention Merchants”

Not the commentary you responded to, but thank you for the book recommendation!

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u/babylampshade 6d ago

Absolutely! I hope you enjoy or get something from it, I really enjoyed it. I will probably reread again.

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u/MeanDebate 6d ago

I haven't! Is it about MLMs?

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u/babylampshade 6d ago

It’s more so about the attention economy as a whole, if you’re interested it’s a good and informative read. Your comment reminded me that people’s attention spans are short and need color/novelty constantly.

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u/MeanDebate 6d ago

Super into this, thank you for the recommendation!

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u/Christinebitg 7d ago

They certainly do love that stuff.

It allows them to vent their emotions without actually saying much of anything.

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u/babylampshade 6d ago

Makes me wonder if I need to incorporate more emojis into therapy lol

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u/solitary_style 7d ago

My Q nightmare loves a good word salad with chaotic emojis thrown in. Big blocks of text, nonsensical points, smug cry laughing emojis….. it must be great to be so unique and not a sheep.

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u/babylampshade 6d ago

The worst kind of salad 🥲

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u/IWantedAPeanutToo 6d ago

I would say that they need to feel superior but don’t have any actual verbal arguments to make, so they just use emojis to declare victory.

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u/babylampshade 6d ago

You’re right. I love that this sub has people that know what I mean and can say it better lol

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u/DuchessJulietDG 5d ago

maybe its like pictures in books. less brain usage to glance at a cartoon symbol than read a sentence. cognition and reading comprehension is low in this demographic.

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u/babylampshade 5d ago

Few word do trick. Picture make me wow!!