I'm the gal in charge of the emotes lea-finger-guns

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 madeline-smug) 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 meow-bounce

Other tidbits I'd like to share:

  • I have 4 pets; they are all emotes: sleepi scared doggy-beg dog-screm
  • My favorite games/games series are CrossCode, Xenoblade, and Disco Elysium
  • I have the original dprk-soldier 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 lea-smug
  • I start my junior year of college literally tomorrow hypersus
  • Egon [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    You're the one responsible for ooooooooooooooh ??? You are fantastic! Love your dog, I thought it was a meme picture scared

    Good luck with your junior year!

  • Moss [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Yo you're the emoji messiah? And scared is your actual dog? That's so cool, I bow down to you

    Good 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

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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    11 months ago

    Tysm for carrying our site's based emoji culture while studying compsci at the same time, ur a legend!

    kim-salute

  • Lurkerino [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I just started playing CrossCode and Im liking it. How do I use emotes in jerboa app?

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I'm sorry for submitting an emote! HornyOnMain asked me to! :'(

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    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!

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    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 heart-sickle

    PS: do you intend to share writing on here? I need more literature pals in my life kitty-birthday-sad

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      rosa-salute

      PS: do you intend to share writing on here? I need more literature pals in my life kitty-birthday-sad

      It's so far mostly fanfic, but when I get my original stuff polished and done I'll probably share it lea-blush

      • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        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