what does the jester emoji mean?

[kottpot]

ppl keep giving them to me on my comments and reviews, i don't get it?? i get lots of them and i don't know what it means:(

[Nïċḵ]

I bet it was meant to be as a way to react in a positive way to someone making a "jest"(joke).

"What you said was good comedy/entertaining/funny"

But in reality, it's used ironically or straight up as an insult.

"You say something I don't agree with it? Then I call you a clown and your opinion a joke"

That's not to say sometimes people do purposely share outright wrong takes, precisely to bait people into giving awards such as jester... but most of the time?

Most of the time, it's just people jerking off at the very idea of feeling themselves(or their point of view) to be superior than others, without going through the effort of actually proving it with reason and logic and fact. To me, it's just yet another minute tool to feed the separatist mentality that's been growing up at an exponential rate thanks to the globalization through social media.

Who cares about the truth in things when you can just "virtual-invalidation" people and their views with a couple of clicks and impose yourself and your own views while also earning some "virtual-validation" of your own... right?

[Cellmember]

Free points are noice.

[Maria]

can't shake the feeling that OP actually knows what it is and was just messing around with us.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by Nick:

I bet it was meant...

But in reality...

Most of the time...

Totally agree with you, Nick. Yet I see the ultimate joke as on the person who's giving the award. On Steam, points are a currency. Therefore, they are spending/wasting their hard-earned points by giving them to the person they're insulting.

In practically any D&D-style MMO, do you insult somebody by anonymously giving them gold? No, because that would be stupid.

In Second Life, do you insult somebody by anonymously giving them Linden? No, because that would be stupid.

In the real world, do you insult somebody by anonymously giving them money? No, because that would be stupid.

So the clown is really the person who's giving out the 'Jester' award as an insult, because they basically just gave away $6.

[Lunacy]

I means they like you enough to give you free steam points.

[User J]

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

So the clown is really the person who's giving out the 'Jester' award as an insult, because they basically just gave away $6.

So, you're referring to when they gave players six dollars off via redeeming steam points during that race event thing, I take it?

I wish they actually would allow us to do that again, because steam points are currently useless to me. As far as I know they only allow users to decorate there profile, and avatar.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by WindRider:

So, you're referring to when they gave players six dollars off via redeeming steam points during that race event thing, I take it?

No. I was referring to the fact that if you buy a $6 game, then you earn 600 points. So when you spend 600 points to give out a 'Jester' award, you just wasted your $6 worth of points by giving them away as an insult.

[The nubinator]

Originally posted by kottpot:

ppl keep giving them to me on my comments and reviews, i don't get it?? i get lots of them and i don't know what it means:(

WP OP, WP.

[rinaldop]

Originally posted by kottpot:

Originally posted by MoonC A T:

That doesn't answer the question. No one cares on here if you are male or female, whether you say it or not. Has nothing to do with jesters.

you'll get it when you're older little man...:slendy:

That is the kind of post that gets jester awards.

[Kreezio]

it has a bed derogative

[Mailer]

It means basically what the Heavy is saying here:
"You are just funny, man"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82KFkEi9ENc
This video is like the perfect encapsulation of all the misconceptions regarding the Jester-award, ever.