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pineapple in the context of social media, especially Mastodon, was a late 2010s symbol meaning "welcome" and can also be sent in emoji form as a means of saying “hello,” “welcome,” or “aloha”.
Mastodon
Shortly after wider adoption of Mastodon in the mid to late 2010s, user @acw began posting pineapple emoji on the site and gave it the connotation of the following additional meanings as delineated in 2017-04-09 : What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon (archived):
- Sending 🍍 to new people as a form of “hello,” “welcome,” “aloha”
- 🍍 is the emoji shorthand for boost, a Mastodon specific name for repost
- 🍍ing is also a form of Internet slang for when your Mastodon follower count surpasses your Twitter follower count.
Articles
- 2017-04-09: What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon
- 2017-04-12:
Chris Aldrich: My first internet meme
See Also
- lulz
- Early 2010s era: Pine_apple123 on Twitter
