Yeah! I use purple hearts too. Purple is also my favourite colour and its a lot of other people's favourites too. Thing is is that, I can't remember where is heard it from, but a purple heart can symbolise that perhaps you are... trying to make a move on someone is the best way I can describe it and I personally think that that is messed up honestly. I have also never particularly had a problem with emoji spamming, and people do ask me about making art for me quite regularly (Which I am really flattered by). But this post from AO3 has scared me into perhaps putting only author comments on. I also do see Vulgarweed's comment and even though I do agree with it (Being that heart emoji don't translate onto AO3), I am still scared to use hearts on here. What I do is I use red heart emojis in my notes (❤️) and typed out hearts in comments (<3) , cuz I reply to all comments that aren't talking about making art. I like to reply and read everyone's comments tho and like to think I can spot a scammer, cuz I don't like the idea of messaging off of AO3, because you are being taken away from other eyes.
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