As often as that happens, I could as well give a shorter answer. Three letters in length. I have spoken of this in print before, but I realize it must now be going on twenty years, and I do not intend to speak of it again for a similar span of time. So pay attention.
Different people use the same words differently.
To others, it sounds positively repellent, cloying, icky-poo. To me, it would be an impoverished art form that did not have the capacity and the permission to be occasionally and purposefully glum, gloomy, or depressing. The context is everything. Examples, had I been making notes, would be endless. The meanings, the definitions, of nonverbal shorthand symbols are inevitably even less precise, whether they be stars and half-stars or thumbs or reels of film or, in the case of the Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever , dog bones.