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Etymology

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Blend of emoji +‎ copypasta.

Noun

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Examples

A block 🧱 of text 📃🔠 containing random 🔀🎲 or 🤷 excessive 📈😵‍💫 emoji.

emojipasta (uncountable)

  1. (Internet slang) A block of text containing random or excessive emoji.
    • 2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic:
      That poster’s favorite emojipasta, he said, is the one that takes a chunk of dialogue from Todd Phillips’s Joker and fills it in with clowns and squirt guns.
    • 2022, Sara Haskin Rosenau, "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation", thesis submitted to the University of Colorado, page 15:
      This style is now heavily associated with “cringe culture” and, like emojipasta, can signal a mocking style through its presence alone.

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