NT’s do not tend to say what they mean, no. and that emojis allow more information to fit in a small space is literally just information theory, it’s, like, the second or third calculation that comes up in shannon’s original paper on the topic. we aren’t arguing that emojis are inherently bad or useless-I personally don’t like them, and think they’re overused by the worst people to avoid the discomfort of actually articulating their ideas, but if emoji didn’t exist, they would find another way to do that, and there is actually utility in there, once you dig through the mountains of boomer crap.

liking cute things is fine. but the idea that a whole person is dominated by that aesthetic, like these nazis are, is when it becomes problematic. its the aesthetics of the nonthreatening, of the needy blanket the whole personality, that’s where it becomes a problem. even children aren’t so thorough about that crap. i guess it’s also fucking creepy, like fetishizing the idea of cuteness, and the overselling of being nonthreatening is crazy sus and puts people on edge?

I mean, it’s not unheard-of to have grown adults with walls full of plush toys of characters from comic book films. That’s kind of a different issue though, more along the lines of nostalgia for our childhoods which is also used very cynically.