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[–] HonoraryMancunian 90 points 1 year ago (6 children)

:D will forever be better than its emoji counterpart

[–] Kase 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] uranibaba 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just does not convey the same feeling.

[–] Rootiest 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially that one with the teeth.

You should at least use the normal smile emoji πŸ™‚

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but in some chats that one has weird rosy cheeks

[–] Rootiest 4 points 1 year ago

That's this one 😊 (or this one ☺️)

There are a lot of smiley faces now

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

:P is appropriate a lot of times when πŸ˜› is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. πŸ˜‹ Is what they should use. One looks like you're being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

:P can also be more neutral than happy at times, which is a nuance that the emoji lacks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah :P growing up for me was always either "yeah that's silly" in a more nondescript way, or it was something akin to "yeah XYZ isn't great but it is what it is" β€” almost like a diet version of :/

[–] Buddahriffic 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there's a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I've seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like "this is amusing but also horrible" or "putting on a smile despite everything being awful". Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.

[–] Zealousideal_Fox900 11 points 1 year ago

:I is one of my favs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

^^ is what is used most often here (Germany)