Every time somebody sends me a thumb I take it as “whatever you say you fucking dumbass” and it pisses me off.
And ya, I’m aware that that the replies are going to be thumbs, let’s see em ya jerks!!!
It’s a pretty simple “acknowledged” to me. It’s a “I’ve not just seen your message, I’ve read it, and I have no further comments”.
I don’t think I’ve ever interpreted it as rude.
Nah, and to be honest it threw me off to hear some people interpet it that way. It’s always meant “acknowledged” or “I agree, no notes” to me.
If I wanted to be rude I’d do this instead: 👍🙄
no definitely not. but that’s probably because i don’t associate with people who think im a piece of shit
Depends on context for me.
No big deal at all
Not really, maybe passive agressive at times, but I always see it as casual agreement.
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It says we are all a bunch Fonzies here, and what is Fonzie?
Reference to an old American television show where the “cool” character used to make the thumbs up gesture.
Don’t touch the leather.
The context will be more telling of if it’s actually rude or not. There’s a lot of chat software nowadays where you can “react” to a message with a thumbs up and people use it to acknowledge what was said.
Initially I did yeah, but eventually learned that different people use it differently. So good practice to never assume sarcasm through emojis unless you know the person well
In a professional setting, it’s been a normalised acknowledgement, but socially I try to avoid it. Depending on the generation it can be taken the wrong way.
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I used to but then at work everyone always uses the thumbs up on slack. So I got used to it. Nowadays it depends on the context of the convo
The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.
