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whoever designed these emojis had ONE job

The meme displays a line of text at the top reading 'whoever designed these emojis had ONE job', positioned above two line chart emojis placed side by side on a plain white background. The left emoji has a red line drawn on a light blue grid background, which is intended to be a standard 'trending up/positive growth' emoji, but it features an unnecessary downward dip in the middle of its overall upward trajectory. The right emoji has a blue line on the same grid background, intended to be a standard 'trending down/negative growth' emoji, but it contains an unexpected upward bump in the middle of its overall downward trajectory. The joke revolves around the fact that the emoji designers failed at their single simple task of creating clearly legible, intuitive up and down trend emojis by adding conflicting mid-trend changes that reduce the emojis' at-a-glance readability.
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whoever designed these emojis had ONE job

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The meme displays a line of text at the top reading 'whoever designed these emojis had ONE job', positioned above two line chart emojis placed side by side on a plain white background. The left emoji has a red line drawn on a light blue grid background, which is intended to be a standard 'trending up/positive growth' emoji, but it features an unnecessary downward dip in the middle of its overall upward trajectory. The right emoji has a blue line on the same grid background, intended to be a standard 'trending down/negative growth' emoji, but it contains an unexpected upward bump in the middle of its overall downward trajectory. The joke revolves around the fact that the emoji designers failed at their single simple task of creating clearly legible, intuitive up and down trend emojis by adding conflicting mid-trend changes that reduce the emojis' at-a-glance readability.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit via an RSS feed. It satirizes poor design choices for standard emoji assets that contradict the core intended purpose of emojis as simple, instantly understandable visual communication tools.

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