Social media Did you unknowingly communicate a “murderous smile?” Young people use familiar mothers in ways that even millennials don’t understand

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“It is the most important thing in the whole chat, ”he says Sarband Omar-Rashed19, and shows tears in the eyes of laughing mothers.

With this, both young and slightly older mothers express laughter. Young people also use many other mothers to express laughter, but they may not immediately open up to even the millennials, let alone the older generations.

For example, young people use grave coffins or skulls when they want to tell them they are dying to laugh.

Justin Cortez, 18, sometimes uses tears on her cheeks to express really loud laughter. You can check the official meanings of mothers on the Emojipedia website. There, mothers tearing profusely refer to loud crying.

Different uses can lead to misunderstandings. Amin Barechin, 16, the mother received a message from a younger friend with a profusely crying emoji. At that point, Mom didn’t understand that the guy was laughing at the mothers. He thought there was something wrong with this.

When the young man again sends a smiling emojin, he does not always express joy with it. It can also mean a “murderous smile”.

“They also play a role in hidden fencing,” says the 16-year-old Tara Ekholm.

You can even send a message to a friend that the exam went well and add a smiling emojin to the end. In that case, it means that the test did not go well at all, explains Ekholm.

There are also a lot of capers in the messages of young people, which a slightly older person could interpret as just a headdress.

For many young people, however, the cap reflects a lie, the 18-year-old opens Pietu Rauhala. It comes from an English word cap, which may refer to exaggeration or lying. You can add a crossed emojin to the message in connection with the cap.

“It means I’m not really lying.”

In order for mothers to be able to use them properly in the eyes of young people, the context must be understood, says the 18-year-old Janne Kevarinmäki. Many young people look at the social media service Tiktok, how and in what contexts others use mothers.

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“Young people is perhaps a more coded, somehow more imaginative way to use mothers, ”says Duran Creative, an ad scriptwriter Petteri Puustinenwho is familiar with mothers for her work.

Emerging from mothers in the Z-generation, i.e., those born in the late 1990s or early 2000s, may seem confused, as parents use mothers much more literally.

“They’re trying to find (in their mothers) exactly the feeling they’re using in the text.”

This means that if something laughs, it is answered with a yellow laughing face.

Emojien the meaning can change quickly. For example, the sunflower has taken on a new meaning with the war in Ukraine, as it is the national flower of the country. Many are adding sunflowers to their social media upgrades to show support for Ukraine.

A lot of pregnant mothers have been seen in Tiktok recently. For example, a mother can mean that someone looks good in a sexual sense. It can also be used for flirting.

There are many purposes, but the young people interviewed by HS talk about the importance of oven-freshness.

“It’s a whole new thing, maybe some couple of weeks old,” says Omar-Rashed.

For young people mean that someone will “smash” you, Omar-Rashed opens. In this context smashing may, for example, mean, in a playful sense, “crushing” another, that is, taking a victory over another.

“Of course, flap means. No one takes these seriously. ”

Emojis are just one example of how young people get to redefine things.

“It’s about clothes, music, technology, work, so it’s always a younger group that mirrors whether someone is cool or not,” says Puustinen.

Puustinen thinks that it is easy for young people to define things because everything is new and they do not have unnecessary prejudices.

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Different nevertheless, age groups do not live in completely different worlds. A good example of this is the happy smiley familiar to the X and Y generations, formed by a colon and a parenthesis. Some young people have once again taken a smile that has been in use for decades alongside their mothers.

“I actually use it a lot,” says the 18-year-old Elena Aro.