I think this would have worked better if it showed the emoji (still sideways, mind you) in an image bubble to suggest it was a photo. That would add the necessary layer of ambiguity to make this a funny question of whether she rejected because that’s what he looks like or because of his manual emoji use

So relieved to see someone else mention this, was starting to question whether I’m just being neurotic when little errors like this have me concerned about whether the underlying content is being thoroughly reviewed

Barbarian street smarts ain’t by the book (or all that smart), but damn are they effective

Making an AI that detects violations of social norms itself sounds like a violation of social norms