Emoji reactions for TMDB

The site has reactions; they end at the site

TMDB ships a small set of its own emoji reactions beside the user score. They work, and they stop there: a different vocabulary on every site means nothing carries over when you move from a film page to a video, a post, or a repository.

Emojery is the same layer on all of them, drawn from one palette and one counting model. That is the difference it is for, rather than a richer version of what the page already does.

Hiding the site's own reactions is opt-in

Because the 2 layers say the same kind of thing, TMDB is 1 of the few places where the optional Hide original buttons setting has something to hide: turning it on removes the site's own reaction strip and its rating prompt, leaving the Emojery button in their place. The percentage itself is a score rather than a reaction, so it stays either way. The setting is off by default and reversible.

Movies, series, and collections each count separately

The extension derives the target from the numeric id in the page URL, so a movie, a series, and a collection are 3 distinct targets. The slug after that id is decoration the site rewrites on its own, and it never reaches the count.

Season and episode pages carry no score row, so they carry no button. The series page is where a show's reactions gather.

The language you read it in does not split the count

TMDB serves its pages in many languages from the same id. A reaction left on the English page and one left on the Russian page land on the same total, because the language never enters the target.

Counts are readable without an account

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

What a full palette buys you

A short reaction list forces every feeling into the nearest approved box. An open palette lets a film be unsettling, overrated, comforting, or funny in the way it actually was, and lets the strip show when those disagree with each other.

A signal outside the database

The reaction layer belongs to neither the site nor its contributors. It runs on the same model on every supported page, so the signal reads the same way wherever you meet it.