This question has been posed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230620 (slightly different circumstances however there are parallels).

Either way, my favourite answer was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231627

"It helps to bear in mind that about 99.9999% of the worlds population have no awareness of your existence."

That helped me.

I then created a domain based on that comment[1] and then decided to create an alter ego[2] who will be my internet persona for the various projects I've been doing for the last couple of years.

I guess that gave me a bit of a purpose.

[1]=https://99.99999.fyi/ [2]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/

Think of emojis as Egyptian hieroglyphs - we've been there, done that.

On the other hand, emoji are far more international - everyone knows what a thumbsup means ....

> everyone knows what a thumbsup means ....

In some places, a thumbs up means "Up yours!" Not very friendly at all.

Mea Culpa - not my intention :)

I guess the victory/peace sign would also be a bad example (and that amongst english speakers).

I’m sure the 3 developers from Iran/Iraq who don’t know English and would be offended by that are fine.

It does have an air of "yeah fuck you buddy" sometimes to get a thumbs up

<thumbs_up/>

I hope at least one emoji is universal...<3

> [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020

Original submission: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020

> [Submitted on 20 Sep 2017]

Shouldn't this be "(2017)" - original article was submitted in 2017.