Cancel culture is coming for your emojis

Generation Z
is trying to cancel the thumbs-up emoji, among others, for being “rude” and “hostile.”

In a Reddit thread , a 24-year-old wrote that the emoji should “never [be] used in any situation.”

“The thumbs up emoji is used to be really passive aggressive,” the post reads . “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up.”

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“Everyone my age in the office doesn’t do it, but the gen X people always do it,” the post continued. “Took me a bit to adjust and get out of my head that it means they’re mad at me. ”

Another Reddit user replied that it seemed “hostile.”

“I understand what you mean, my last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a 👍,” the response stated. “I don’t know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me, like an acknowledgment but kind of saying ‘I don’t really care/am not interested.’”

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Using the thumbs-up emoji was also noted as being a sign that someone is “officially old and past it,” according to the Daily Mail.

In a poll of 2,000 people between the ages of 16 and 29, the thumbs-up emoji is joined by the red love heart, the OK hand, the smiling poop, the laughing-crying face, and the grimacing face as emojis that make a person look “old.”