I'm the gal in charge of the emotes 
Technically, this is a self-appointed role, but given I'm in charge of the emoji comm, and have basically de-facto curated the batches because I was the person who specialized in the maintenance of it on the dev team for a relatively-long stretch of time, it's semi-official at this point.
What it entails, really, is that I go into a special panel on the site and I upload images that I curate, some through submissions on our very own /c/emoji, some through pre-edited/ready-to-upload images I find online, and sometimes I just get an urge to boot up Pixelmator (my image editor of choice) and synthesize an emote, through cutouts, meticulous frame-by-frame background removal, effects, and/or frankensteining images haphazardly.
Previously, what that entailed was running scripts on my local mirror of the emotes folder and manually fine-tuning a JSON file filled with emote filenames so they would show up in order on the emote picker. I miss the fine-tooth comb that gave me, but I'm grateful for the lemmy/hexbear devs for making my role infinitely easier and accessible for me to do.
Outside of my time spent being extremely based (as I am, of course, the one true leftist 
) and maintaining emotes, I'm a hobbyist musician and aspiring software developer. I'm a college undergrad studying Computer Science as my major, and my primary life goal thus far is to make a game and/or write a story that I'm personally proud of.
I've been on this site since launch, and I've been particularly blessed to be stuck here out of all of the endless maws of ideology the internet has to offer 
Other tidbits I'd like to share:
- I have 4 pets; they are all emotes:
- My favorite games/games series are CrossCode, Xenoblade, and Disco Elysium
- I have the original
JPEG in my Documents folder - My handle is a pronounced abstraction of my old username, YourSilverFriend, because I am dogwater at competitively-ranked multiplayer online games
- I have account #150, chronologically
- I start my junior year of college literally tomorrow
Omg
is your little dog?I love them.
Thank you for all your hard work
Yo you're the emoji messiah? And
is your actual dog? That's so cool, I bow down to youGood luck in college! I've just finished registering for my third year and I can't wait to go back. Don't be afraid to just say "Hi I'm WhyEssEff, what's your name?" to everyone you sit beside
Thank you for all the work you put in, the emotes are one of my favorite parts of this place!
I've always wanted to know: is your avatar a character from something, or is it an original character (do not steal). I love her design.
I would never be able to play that game without going "omg, I'm playing as WSF"
Tysm for carrying our site's based emoji culture while studying compsci at the same time, ur a legend!
I just started playing CrossCode and Im liking it. How do I use emotes in jerboa app?
Emote picker may not be implemented, but @EmotionalSupportLancet@hexbear.net and @Parsani@hexbear.net made a post listing every emote thus far at the time of posting, and those have the embed codes. Do colon name autofill shortcuts work? I browse purely on the site, so
It’s like single-digit clicks now to get it up and running, I’ll check it out when I get a chance to sit down
I'm a college undergrad studying Computer Science as my major
Horrible choice, I did that an I hated my job so much I went back to grad school. Now I'm a TA for a 300 level cour--
I start my junior year of college literally tomorrow
Oh no. Uhh, on the off chance you're at the same university I go to, what I meant to say is that it's a great choice of major and you've chosen a fine university to go to! Please rate your TA highly on the feedback form at the end of the semester!
Good luck on classes, but make sure you share some of that luck with me....
Looking like a stressful semester 😮💨
Thanks for all your hard work comrade! It literally determines the character of the sight
PS: do you intend to share writing on here? I need more literature pals in my life
PS: do you intend to share writing on here? I need more literature pals in my life
It's so far mostly fanfic, but when I get my original stuff polished and done I'll probably share it
I think it be pretty cool to get a commie writing club going on here. C/writing has been dead for too long T_T
