OK, but this is bizarre, because highly-specific niche-sub-subculture codes like the colors of heart emojis don't translate across a multicultural, multifandom space like AO3. This is the first time I've EVER heard of blue hearts meaning something bad, and I've been around a long time.
Yeah, same here. Like, I don't doubt a really specific fandom or (sub)group uses and reads the blue heart emoji that way --like for example, there are people over Facebook who takes the "like" reaction as "passive aggressive" and read it like "I don't really care about this but reacting so you know I saw it" which is... um... okay, whatever, but that's not how I use it nor how I interpret it when people like something I shared over there. But to be over-vigilant about a row of blue heart emojis in a really big big site like AO3, where people come and go from fandom to fandom...
same here as well... i've been active in fandom on so many different platforms and for so many different mediums and have never heard of anything like that... i'm sure a fandom does exist that uses heart emojis that way, the same way so many fandoms have taken to using emojis to represent a ship, sure, but there is such a thing as overly paranoid and i would say that applies here lol. plenty of people want to support their favorite fics and authors but don't always know how to engage with them, so sending only emojis - especially heart emojis which are pretty innocuous - makes sense
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