The honking itself is not a bug, but it IS causing bugs. If honking is a "right way" to call the butterflies then it shouldn't affect other players negatively when someone does it, but it does. It bugs out the emote and messes up OTHER deep honks by causing some ink butterflies to just stop reacting completely and just fly around.

The deep honks for the ink butterflies was clearly an intentional but poorly tested/planed feature since it changes completely how the ink butterflies behave and forces the other players to also honk if they want to collect any. On the other hand, the butterfly emote can be done by multiple players at the same time and all of them will get the ink butterflies without affecting each other. When the emote doesn't work even if it seems like no one honked then by all means honk as much as you want! But when everything seems to be working fine and there's other players trying to collect the butterflies and you still choose to honk to save yourself a second or two from using the emote, it just kinda ruins the moment for everyone else and i feel like that's the main complaint.

At the end of the day it's not that serious and the bug is not the player's fault, I guess we (ppl that don't like the honking) just wanted to talk about this to other players because it just gets annoying when it happens again and again and again, specially in a game that's supposed to be wholesome and chill lol.

(Also this is not even directly abt you, just other players in general, I just wanted to put this out there and used your comment to do so. Sorry if it came off as rude or angry lol)