[Noctis hums, then stands up, stretching his back a little because oof, sitting hunched over like that for a while does not help his old wound any.]
People like having a little picture that sums up how they're feeling, I guess. Although the meanings aren't always obvious. [God knows he has accidentally come off as passive-aggressive in texts with his usage of the wrong emoji.] Memes, though—yeah, I think I can answer this. A friend of mine once told me it's something about the ironic tension of the text over the picture. 'Specially if it's a picture of a movie scene—if you know the context of the scene the irony intensifies.
Trouble is, there's so many these days that it gets hard to keep up. And, y'know, I'm thirty. I'm old and decrepit by Internet standards.
[Linking his hands together behind the back of his neck.]
All right. Hit me with something, let's see how good these potions are.
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[Noctis hums, then stands up, stretching his back a little because oof, sitting hunched over like that for a while does not help his old wound any.]
People like having a little picture that sums up how they're feeling, I guess. Although the meanings aren't always obvious. [God knows he has accidentally come off as passive-aggressive in texts with his usage of the wrong emoji.] Memes, though—yeah, I think I can answer this. A friend of mine once told me it's something about the ironic tension of the text over the picture. 'Specially if it's a picture of a movie scene—if you know the context of the scene the irony intensifies.
Trouble is, there's so many these days that it gets hard to keep up. And, y'know, I'm thirty. I'm old and decrepit by Internet standards.
[Linking his hands together behind the back of his neck.]
All right. Hit me with something, let's see how good these potions are.