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Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (4 children)

second a few other comments, a lot of people conflating emoticons and emojis

  • emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • emoji: 🤷
  • emoticon: =>^.^<=
  • emoji: 🐱
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's understandable. Back in the old old days, these 😱 were often called emoticons. The reason was that the chat software that people used to automatically replaced ;-) by 😉. The menu was the same and the name of this menu was emoticon.

One of the most famous example of this is MSN Messenger.

People keep the habit to call them emoticons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I propose that we call the symbols in both emoticons and emoji "emos".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And we call emos, goths

I wonder what happened to all the emo girls

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

no, no … emo and goth are different, goths have fashion sense …

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very true. Also, I believe you forgot to escape the 2nd ^ symbol? I think it should look like this:

=>\^.\^<=

=>^.^<=