{"id":12801,"date":"2023-10-08T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legaltalktexas.hammerle.com\/?p=12801"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:50:35","slug":"you-texted-the-crime-now-do-the-time-the-dangers-of-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/legal-talk\/you-texted-the-crime-now-do-the-time-the-dangers-of-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"You Texted the Crime, Now Do the Time: The Dangers of Emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think twice before you insert that smiley face or thumbs-up into your social media post. You might be making a statement that could land you in jail or lead to an adverse judgment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An emoticon is a combination of typed keyboard characters used to represent a stylized face meant to convey the writer\u2019s tone. An emoji is an emoticon or other image in a standardized set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few courts have held that emojis or emoticons are statements that fall under the hearsay rules. That classification sets them up to be admitted into evidence in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/litigation-lawyers\/appeals\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">civil lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or a criminal case if they fall outside of hearsay or are made under a hearsay exception such as excited utterance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one case, the court admitted into evidence a text message with \u201can emoji face with X\u2019s for eyes alongside the victim\u2019s nickname\u201d and found it was inconsistent with the defendant\u2019s claim that a shooting was accidental. In another case, 2 men were arrested after sending emojis of a fist, hand pointing and ambulance over Facebook, which the victim interpreted as a threat of assault. Both cases led to unhappy outcomes for the defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12804 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Shocked emojis\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-2048x1387.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-696x471.jpg 696w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-1-1392x943.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An emoji does not always cut against the sender. One court held that including the tongue-sticking-out emoji \ud83d\ude1b within a response meant that the response was sarcastic and therefore could not be defamatory. In that case, the emoji helped support the sender\u2019s defense to a civil lawsuit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 3 Inherent Dangers of Using Emojis<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emojis Can Have Multiple Meanings<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first danger is that emoticon placement may have multiple meanings and therefore could be interpreted in a way that you may not anticipate. One court found that a smiley-face emoticon at the end of a text message showed that the sender was amused by yet another opportunity to harass the recipient. Yet there could have been other interpretations \u2013 the smiley-face could have been a gesture of friendship, a show of camaraderie, a joke, or simply mistakenly included in the text.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12805 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"3D Set of Emoticons \" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-1024x448.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-1536x672.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-2048x896.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-696x305.jpg 696w, https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Hammerle-10.8-Emoji-2-1392x609.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Difference of Emoji Appearance Across Devices<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second danger comes from technology. Emojis are pictures. They may appear one way on your device when you send them but appear a different way on the recipient\u2019s device when he receives them. This is common when crossing manufacturers, such as sending on an Apple product but viewing on a Microsoft product, or when the sender and recipient have different versions of software. Thus, your emoji of a smiling face could show up on the recipient\u2019s device as an exploding head or an empty square. Your message, thanks to technology, would probably not elicit the reaction that you had intended.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emojis Can Have Hidden Meanings<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third danger is that you may be sending an emoji that has a hidden meaning. Granted, it is difficult to stay up to date on the current meanings of emojis, but some are fairly obvious. For example, an emoji avocado means trendy, eyes are a request for pictures, a snowflake means cocaine, pizza means I love you, and a silent face means a threat to not say anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emojis take on a different meaning when combined with other emojis. A perfect example is the pile of poop emoji, or poomoji. Combine it with money bags and it means filthy rich. Next to a martini it means dirty martini. An emoji string of a circle backslash symbol, clock, and bull means \u201cno time for your bullsh*t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is where we shall end.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do You Need Legal Assistance?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have legal questions, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lewisville-attorney\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">schedule a consultation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to get help from one of our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lawyers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experienced attorneys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorney <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lawyers\/virginia-hammerle\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia Hammerle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hammerle Morris Law Firm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is in her fifth decade of law practice. She is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and an Accredited Estate Planner. Reach her at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legaltalktexas@hammerle.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This column does not constitute legal advice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think twice before you insert that smiley face or thumbs-up into your social media post. You might be making a statement that could land you in jail or lead to an adverse judgment.\u00a0\u00a0 An emoticon is a combination of typed keyboard characters used to represent a stylized face meant to convey the writer\u2019s tone. 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