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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've always just done it backwards, even before emojis were a thing.

I guess I'm just alternative, like Weezer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] Starkstruck 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Emojis and emoticons convey different emotions.

[โ€“] RIP_Cheems 5 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] Resol 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

3(

Try turning this into an emoji, Apple. Oh wait, you can't, because I made it up. (Idea may be thought of by someone else before)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah. The old butt kissing emoji. I remember that

[โ€“] Resol 2 points 11 months ago

It was meant to be some kaomoji version of two eyes closed with a frown (I have little knowledge about kaomoji), but I actually like your description way more.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Resol 2 points 11 months ago

The mouth doesn't look like it should. But it's close enough.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Long live emoticons, death to emoji heretics!

:(

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not even that it's completely different - text emojis are more expressive. Less is more. And I'm not arguing that you can't use emoticons in more than one way to convey different emotions or intentions, but you just can't use :D and ๐Ÿ˜€ in the same way. Where you can use :D to be anything from snide, trolling, taking the piss, happy, excited etc you need a whole lot more emoticons to cover all that the :D can cover.

[โ€“] x4740N 3 points 11 months ago

:)

My phones autocorrect suggests it but doesn't change it

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