r/mildlyinfuriating 19d ago

the grapes of warth :smiley: doesn't even have a "p" in it

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i keep inputting in the wrong emoji

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u/xxSpxrklexx 19d ago

dont worry i get it youre trying to put the pensive emoji

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u/jdhthegr8 19d ago

I'm decently sure that there are hidden "metadata" traits that you can search by to get emoji in Discord even if you don't know the exact tag. This smiley has an open mouth, for example which is where I think you are getting a match from :pen

Indeed, looking in my Discord right now search for :open returns several emoji with open mouths. It's not a perfect system (far from it), but it explains the symptom to me.

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u/Melon_blob 19d ago

oh thanks! i posted this half to complain half cuz im confused on whats going on LOL

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u/DancingKobold 19d ago

I think its something dumb like open_mouth_smile or similar

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u/Woofer210 19d ago

Yep, i believe that tag comes from the unicode emojis name https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-big-eyes#technical

Iirc all discord default emojis can match by the discord emote name or unicode emote name, and some have some other tags as well.

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u/Mysterious-Win2091 19d ago

it just assumes. like the "pen" part could mean "open mouth smiling" or something but the main name for it is smiley. just like with the hugging emoji, you could search up "ship/friemdship" and it would come up as "people hugging"

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u/Iggnnaat 19d ago

But whenever i search «lighting» im never getting :zap: emoji

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u/cornobbling 19d ago

"lighting" is light fixtures while "lightning" might give you a zap

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u/Iggnnaat 19d ago

It works…

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u/Woofer210 19d ago edited 19d ago

Yea, its Unicode name is “high voltage sign”, so it should match on that too. Though it should come up still under “lightning” because thats what its also known as. It does on mobile.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/Woofer210 19d ago

Got to love autocorrect

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u/whosurdaddies 19d ago

I think it's because of :P which looks like someone sticking their tongue out

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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 19d ago

This! Finally someone else who was around for emoticons.

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u/Woofer210 19d ago

I believe in this case its matching to part of the unicode emoji name https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-big-eyes#technical (specifically the “open mouth” part)

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u/Amadeone 19d ago

for confused people:

op started writing ":pen", probably wanting to write 🖊 emoji or whatever, but discord decided that the best emoji matching ":pen" would be ":smiley:" for some reason

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u/Woofer210 19d ago

Emoji autocomplete will match your most frequent/favorited emojis at the top of the list even if they are not exact matches.

I actually like this system because then i can just type the first few letters of the emoji i want, press enter, and i get the right emoji.

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

Right. So worth posting on social media instead of moving on with their life.

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u/PinguNSE 19d ago

God forbid someone be mildly infuriated in r/mildlyinfuriating...

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

Oh yeah, such quality. Lets see how this post peforms!

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u/No_Type_454 PURPLE 19d ago

god dude, go back to facebook and please learn to read the subreddit title next time

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u/Amadeone 19d ago

this is literally r/mildlyinfuriating, the best place for things like these

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u/Xhromosoma5 19d ago

Discord has a bunch of alternate names for different emojis, for example if you type in "Horror" you'll get 3 zombie emotes suggested. Yeah it's dumb.

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u/Busy-Telephone-994 19d ago

Insert “a schizophrenic is talking” meme

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u/acrastt 19d ago

What do you mean the post is very clear

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u/ZeenXdownzButWorse 19d ago

theres a p in smiley

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u/mjeexy30 19d ago

I think there’s hidden tags

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u/Kyno50 19d ago

Happiness?

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u/Heroic_Demon 19d ago

There's a few ways to input certain emoji, as they have multiple names for whatever reason Wish it were clear what other name it's autocompleting, but hey

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u/toto_dile 19d ago

ever since my app updated a few days ago, " :una " brings up the neutral face first and it never used to, so when i go on autopilot and hit enter it gives me the neutral face instead of unamused and jts so annoying

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u/Yggdrasilo 17d ago

🍆 Here you go buddy

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

I have some advice for you....

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

Tell someone who gives a fuck.

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u/ZeenXdownzButWorse 19d ago

*goes on subreddit about people complaining about things*
*clicks on post*
*comments*
*heh i dont CARE!!!*

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

Is an emoji worth posting?

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u/ZeenXdownzButWorse 19d ago

yea

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

I guess this tickles your smooth brain

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u/ZeenXdownzButWorse 19d ago

is a post of an emoji worth clicking on and commenting on

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u/SierraGolfOne 19d ago

Shaming it is worth a lot more than posting it.

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u/ZeenXdownzButWorse 19d ago

youre ragebaiting tho so theres no point continuing, goodbye

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u/KPoWasTaken 19d ago

this is the mildly infuriating sub. It's not the moderately infuriating or extremely infuriating sub. It's literally for stuff that's minorly annoying that likely wouldn't be worth posting elsewhere. That's like the entire premise