Next time you reach for that little green-faced, wide-eyed, tongue-out emoji, ask yourself: Am I critiquing the content, or am I attacking the human?

As we scroll through our feeds, we have a choice. Will we use the puke face as a tool for comedy—a shared gag reflex over a bad movie? Or will we let it rot into a weapon of lazy cruelty?

When you reply to a teenager’s art with a puke face, you aren't critiquing art; you are attacking the artist’s soul. When you spam a live streamer with vomiting emojis, you are participating in a mob mental assault.