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re: Is replying with a thumbs up emoji passive aggressive?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:24 am to High C
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:24 am to High C
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emotional females with nothing better to do
I'd never even known it was a problem until two years ago when I was dating a chick ten years younger than me that called it, "thumper thumb." She hated it.
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Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:28 am to LSU Coyote
In healthcare, the most recent requirement for communication via electronic platforms is that the message received has to be acknowledged, usually via the thumbs up. So the thumbs up is now a professional communication symbol
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:31 am to Odysseus32
I always assumed it just meant “ok, that works”.
I guess I need to type out “sounds good” or “that works”?
I guess I need to type out “sounds good” or “that works”?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:32 am to LSU Coyote
Isnt this a younger generation thing?
They also think using proper punctuation is passive aggressive in texts, so, you know, they are idiots.
They also think using proper punctuation is passive aggressive in texts, so, you know, they are idiots.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:32 am to LSU Coyote
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:34 am to tide06
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I guess I need to type out “sounds good” or “that works”?
No, that’s still going to make jb stop and look at his phone needlessly, and he’s too busy for that.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:44 am to High C
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No, that’s still going to make jb stop and look at his phone needlessly, and he’s too busy for that.
Then they’re getting the thumb and should be glad it’s not the finger.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:45 am to LSU Coyote
Only to people susceptible to revision communication propaganda.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 10:46 am to LSU Coyote
Posted on 7/16/26 at 12:20 pm to tide06
Yeah.
It comes off as dismissive with family. Imagine having a conversation with your cousin and coming to a conclusion about something and you just blankly give him a thumbs up. That’s the connotation.
At work that’s okay. I head nod and thumbs up all the time as do other people if we are working a lot together.
It comes off as dismissive with family. Imagine having a conversation with your cousin and coming to a conclusion about something and you just blankly give him a thumbs up. That’s the connotation.
At work that’s okay. I head nod and thumbs up all the time as do other people if we are working a lot together.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 12:26 pm to Odysseus32
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It comes off as dismissive with family. Imagine having a conversation with your cousin and coming to a conclusion about something and you just blankly give him a thumbs up. That’s the connotation.
To each his own, but this reads like a big nothingburger to me. I just don’t get it.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 12:40 pm to High C
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:09 pm to LSU Coyote
As per my last email
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:19 pm to LSU Coyote
The thumbs up just acknowledges I read your text and will probably not respond unless another response worthy post is made. Am I aggressively not answering a text? Leaving you on read or typing seems more aggressive/annoying.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:31 pm to LemmyLives
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called it, "thumper thumb."
That’s exactly what I mean. Why? Thumper thumb doesn’t even make sense to me. What does that have to do with using the emoji in that context?
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:37 pm to High C
My teenager uses it when I ask a question, such as, "Is your game home or away." Or, "What time is the movie?"
A thumbs up response to that pisses me off, because he's not answering the question.
A thumbs up response to that pisses me off, because he's not answering the question.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:39 pm to LemmyLives
Still no explanation why it’s perceived by some (idiots) that it’s passive aggressive.
Probably whiteys fault too somehow.
Probably whiteys fault too somehow.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 1:56 pm to High C
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To each his own, but this reads like a big nothingburger to me. I just don’t get it.
Me either.
But at the same time I prefer to know when I’m being an arse so it’s a conscious decision rather than doing so accidentally.
But logically I see zero difference between telling someone “Ok, sounds good” and the thumbs up emoji. If I gave a friend instructions and he hit me with a thumbs up I wouldn’t take it as “dismissive”, but that he heard me and understands the plan.
But I’m a millennial and these Gen Z kids already think millennials are old so I don’t get to make the rules, only decide which ones I want to abide by.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 2:06 pm to tide06
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But at the same time I prefer to know when I’m being an arse
I think the default is to not take a thumb that way. After all, it's the first response emoji when you hover over a message in Teams. In a work chat, it was dropped four times in 60 seconds on different messages by coworkers above the age of 35 yesterday.
Posted on 7/16/26 at 2:12 pm to LemmyLives
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My teenager uses it when I ask a question, such as, "Is your game home or away." Or, "What time is the movie?"
A thumbs up response to that pisses me off, because he's not answering the question.
My teenager would be wondering why he doesn’t have a phone anymore.
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