Emoji reactions for Metacritic

A critic average and a user average are not the same question

The Metascore weights professional reviews. The User Score counts everyone else. When they land far apart, the page shows the distance and nothing about what caused it: a genuine split in taste reads exactly like a brigading campaign.

Emojery adds a third thing that is not a number at all. A reaction strip drawn from one palette shows which feelings are actually gathering, and whether they agree with each other.

Not a score and not a moderator

Emojery does not compute a rating, detect review bombing, weight anyone's vote, or touch either score. It adds a separate reaction layer in your browser, under the scores the site already publishes.

Films, shows, seasons, and games each count separately

The extension derives the target from the page path, so a film, a show, one of its seasons, and a game are 4 distinct targets with 4 distinct totals. That mirrors how the site scores them: a season page carries its own Metascore, and so its reactions stay its own.

A game keeps 1 page whichever platform you play it on, so its reactions gather in 1 place rather than splitting across console listings.

Nothing to replace

The My Score control is a rating slider and a review form rather than a reaction, so Emojery stands in for nothing: the opt-in Auto-press original buttons setting stays inactive here, and Hide original buttons has nothing to hide.

Counts are readable without an account

A title's totals are readable by anyone, with no Metacritic or Emojery login. Adding to them takes a provider sign-in, so the strip counts people rather than anonymous installs.

When the gap has a shape

A user score far under the critic score can mean disappointment, anger, boredom, or a joke that got out of hand. Those look different in emoji and identical as a number, which is the whole reason to read both.

A signal outside the aggregator

The reaction layer belongs to neither the critics nor the site. It uses Emojery's own counting model, the same one running on repositories, videos, and social posts.