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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In msn messenger emoticons were what emojis are today. So to me emoticons and emojis are the same... i dont what to call the things op refers to... maybe ASCII emoticons?

Edit: turns out im wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

Edit: sort of wrong... emojis are also officially called emoticons

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It probably doesn't help that a lot of things will take your emoticons and automatically convert them into emojis for you. Like you type :-) and it changes it to ๐Ÿ™‚ without even asking. I've run into this in a lot of chat clients.