Proposal to add the 🍿 emoji as a reaction

I have avoided calling this out up until now, but given the continued replies, I have to point out:

Please stop with the AI-generated replies. It sounds like you opened up ChatGPT and asked it to compose a message about cultural interpretations of the :popcorn: emoji. Either you have an unusual affinity for em-dashes, bulleted lists, overly verbose postings, bold headings, neutral corporate language, and repetitious ideas, or AI is being lazily used to make arguments. If English is not your first language, that’s OK - write it in Korean and we’re perfectly able to use the translation tools available to us.

The reaction counts and engagement that you’re (not) seeing on your posts are reflective of this problem. That’s also another reason someone might apply a :popcorn:, in the sense of “TL;DR, here we go again”.

I think there ought to be a new rule when complaining about reactions (whether it’s :popcorn:, :-1:, or :angry: ) – the person objecting needs to:

  1. Point to specific threads where the reaction was used harmfully
  2. Explain why the usage was harmful

That’s it. No handwaving and talking in gibberish about cultural understanding, just hard evidence that the usage is harmful to the community ethos.

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