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A screenshot with text that reads: 3) Tornado ?️ This one’s number 618 on the list, so about as unpopular as the squid. Yet really, it’s a total banger of an emoji! Any time you’re trying to convey chaos, disarray, or life just totally going nonlinear on you, the tornado’s a go-to. It could possibly also convey general confusion, too? Or mayyyybe a really Dionysian form of thrill? (You’re being spun around.) It also pairs nicely with other emoji. Match it up with a house and you pithily convey that “things are a total mess.” Pair it with a smiley face or a thumbs up and it becomes a gleeful or ironic endorsement of chaos; with a heart, the feeling of being in the maelstrom of love; matched with a devil face with horns, it becomes a signal that you intend to wreak chaos yourself.

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A screenshot with text that reads: 3) Tornado ?️ This one’s number 618 on the list, so about as unpopular as the squid. Yet really, it’s a total banger of an emoji! Any time you’re trying to convey chaos, disarray, or life just totally going nonlinear on you, the tornado’s a go-to. It could possibly also convey general confusion, too? Or mayyyybe a really Dionysian form of thrill? (You’re being spun around.) It also pairs nicely with other emoji. Match it up with a house and you pithily convey that “things are a total mess.” Pair it with a smiley face or a thumbs up and it becomes a gleeful or ironic endorsement of chaos; with a heart, the feeling of being in the maelstrom of love; matched with a devil face with horns, it becomes a signal that you intend to wreak chaos yourself.
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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:15:51 JST Clive Thompson

I got my hands on the Unicode Consortium's ranking of emoji by popularity
I decided that I need to start using more *weird* and *less-popular* emoji
My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-emoji-i-resolve-to-use-more-often-7816c7b7e706
In case you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-emoji-i-resolve-to-use-more-often-7816c7b7e706?sk=2a7a436b61d91908c2b350f3509a1541

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