People are just realizing there’s a hugging emoji – they thought it was something different and refuse to believe it
AN iPhone user questioned her intelligence after she realized she had been interpreting an emoji all wrong.
But she soon found out she wasn’t alone, as other viewers were just as mind-blown to learn the emoji in question actually portrayed two people hugging.
A 22-year-old masters student who goes by M (@communismisforthekids) joked that the blunder meant she wasn’t as smart as she once thought.
“I might be a f***ing idiot,” she began in the clip.
“But every time I see the hugging emoji – now I know it’s a hugging emoji – but for the last, um, ever since I knew it existed, I would look at it and be like, ‘Why is everyone posting a film camera?’”
In slight disbelief of her own mistake, she said that she used to wonder what the camera could signify in certain messages.
“It’s a f***ing hugging emoji. I thought it was a film camera up until a couple weeks ago.”
While the all-blue emoji shows two people with their arms wrapped around each other, most viewers were just as shocked by the revelation as M was.
“HELP IT’S A HUGGING EMOJI?!” one person wrote.
“How am I just learning this now???” added another.
“OMG I thought it was a film camera too and everyone clowned on me lmao. I would see it on messages of support and I was like, ‘Uh???’” a third admitted.
And a fourth said they were going to continue living in ignorance: “I refuse to acknowledge the fact that it is a hugging emoji. I’m going to keep pretending it’s a film camera.”