Umm...no. Think for a minute. The ability to post images, GIFs, and videos hasn’t been available here until the recent update. I’ve been a fan of GIFs since, forever.
Like a pen or paintbrush, the animated cell is mightier than the sword and worth a thousand words.
All the best,
Nonoise
No, a word well chosen or a concept could be mightier than a sword or an image in a mature discussion perhaps not in a schoolyard for sure...
Sorry...
A emoticon or an image is just something to underline a point in a discussion at best...
Save if we mix hypnosis,mantra repetition, surprize gesture, destabilization of an interlocutor etc with the like of a gesture instead of an intellectual move...
Perhaps they are children moves, but not Socrates moves for sure...Strawman argument must not exist and had no real power save for a few seconds in sound discussion....
Emoticon and images must be used sparsely for HUMOR only ...
My humble opinion...
Images used like a point in a discussion hide the essence which is in the brain or the heart not in the gut feeling reaction pushing toward a selected image for answering a point argument....
I prefer drawings and schemas....Cartoon images repeated especially, save very good one, are annoying...
Sorry to speak my mind but....i dont want to swim with a bunch of children throwing cartoons instead of brainwork...