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Farmer ordered to pay after judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance
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I would use ๐ that way. What else would it be?
It's alluding to being interested.
Surprise and or shock? Wariness? They look like cartoon eyes on like Wile-E-Coyote or Tom when they realize they're still holding the dynamite. ๐งจ ๐ ๐จ
It's more like "look at this shit"/"you seeing this?"/โwhoaโ for general stuff. Or sometimes with a slightly inappropriate joke or flirting the eyes acknowledge that and lessen it - like saying jk did back in the day.
In this context if I sent a contract to someone younger and they responded ๐ I might have to doublecheck if something was glaringly wrong with it.
That's interesting. It's wild how emojis are actually the closest thing we have to a universal language, but that language is still new enough that meanings are very fluid and open to interpretation.