I still do
";-;" conveys a fundamentally different vibe as compared to 😭, even if both nominally mean "crying"
Same for ":)" vs. 🙂
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It makes me sad that in many chat programs anymore, expressing joy or general contentment with "carat-underscore-carat" is no longer supported.
Alas, even here
^_^
Shows as "sup" between angle brackets. :(
I first got on the Internet just as the shift from :-) to :) was happening, only geezers still used :-) and :) was the hip new thing...
In my time we used ^^ and -.-
My fav is giving one of theses
-___-
and if they don't get the message
-___________-
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
This was much later. At the time unicode was not supported throughout the internet, so we were limited to ansi/ASCII.
I've of my faves was: \m/ (>_<) \m/
XD
I can't stop reading it as equis de (the Spanish pronunciation)
:3
Oh God it's me... I'm old now.
I don't like the pictures... I always prefer to use text except for when something really disgusts me, then I happen to like "🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮"
Oh God it’s me… I’m old now.
it'll happen to you too!
Kids today just won’t understand. T__T
[]D ][ []\/[] []D ][ []\[]
I still do :/
Greetings from 1990s Japan.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (*´∀｀*) ( ^ω^ )
╰(*´︶`*)╯♡
(=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)
ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘
ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ
(つД`)ノ (￣◇￣; )( ´_ゝ`)
Faces of different people after the party drugs hit
Summoning the most kawaii demon
Homer Simpsons pulling wishbone
Person organizing a line of dildos
Pedobears
People looking for missing glass eye of first person
You can't take our emoticons from our dead hands! ((-(-_(-_-(-_-)-_-)_-)-))
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...at the time? They're not still cool?
I've never stopped using emoticons. :P
:(
Our telegrams are dictated, not read, and the messengers really can’t be trusted with punctuation. Get with the times old man.
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Whenever a sentence needs some indicator of humor or sarcasm, I reach for :p
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I still miss the old :S from the msn days. Nothing really conveys the same emotion nowadays
I used (and still sometimes use) o_O for the same reaction
the day i don't :3 is the day i'm dead
. >:3
*<:-)
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