Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
No idea, here’s a sword
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That’s a nice sword.
here’s a rocket ship 8=======D~~~
second a few other comments, a lot of people conflating emoticons and emojis
- emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- emoji: 🤷
- emoticon: =>^.^<=
- emoji: 🐱
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.
In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.
Very true. Also, I believe you forgot to escape the 2nd ^ symbol? I think it should look like this:
=>\^.\^<==>^.^<=
I propose that we call the symbols in both emoticons and emoji “emos”.
And we call emos, goths
I wonder what happened to all the emo girls
no, no … emo and goth are different, goths have fashion sense …
For me emoticons were something that started when all of the boomers came to Facebook. Floods and floods of useless emojis left and right. So now I feel weird using them, like I’m cheapening the platform while also acting like the people that ruined Facebook for me
Are emojis considered emoticons? Call me old but I think this is an emoticon ;-) and this is an emoji 😉
Agreed! Although the little image things on message boards like phpBB, ProBoards and Invision were also emoticons, even though they were basically early onset emojis
Emoticons are old internet. Emojis are boomer, normie, and corpo friendly translations.
Wait, who was using “old Internet” if not boomers?
Most boomers I know still can’t use a mouse. Millennials and gen X fill most of the old Internet in my mind, but the original '91 Internet was a lot of tech focused boomers, but also was significantly Gen X. '95-'99 seemed to pick up more traction with my generation.
Who is booing this man? He is completely correct
I have a negative attitude to standard emoticons built into Android and iOS. They don’t look good, they’re too many.
I’m interested to know who uses emoticons depicting, for example, player rewind icons or rectangular shapes. Are there people who use these emoticons at least once a year?
I make apps and I use them for prototyping buttons and stuff… So yeah, pretty often.
Hmm… Then wouldn’t it be logical on the part of mobile OS developers to make the extended set of emoticons hidden by default and enabled through system settings? Or make an extended set of smileys as an app that can be installed through the app directory?
Maybe! The MacOS emoji picker actually does this: You can choose which categories to include or omit, and set favorites… And not all of them are enabled by default. No reason phone keyboards couldn’t do the same thing. MacOS calls most of what we’d consider “emojis” to be one category though, lol… So that wouldn’t actually solve the problem. But it’s possible.
Installing them like an app wouldn’t really be a thing though-- Emojis are part of Unicode, which means they’re essentially text characters. You wouldn’t want to omit those from the system entirely, because if they appear in text, you still want to be able to render them. Kind of like… You might not need (or want) a convenient way to write an “é,” but it’d be annoying if somebody wrote “the appetizers were good, but the entrée was just okay” and you saw “entr�e” because you didn’t have the right app installed.
Personally, I’d rather have access to everything and just use search to find the one I want, but it might be nice to have the option to omit categories that you aren’t interested in.
All these people singing the praises of emoticons over emojis, and not a single XD to be seen. I know you’re old enough to remember the XD times! XD you cowards!
I xD all the time 😤
Emoticons are like swear words.
I use them sparingly not because I disapprove of them, but to preserve their effectiveness.
I have been sparing the almighty hell out of mine. When they drop it will be epic.
Emoticons are representations of emotions. We don’t have those. We’re dead inside.
ITT: People conflating emojis and emoticons.
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?
Just for you
- ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- ಠ_ಠ
- (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
- ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
- ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
- (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
- ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
- (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
- ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
- (👁 ͜ʖ👁)
- (งツ)ว
- ʘ‿ʘ
- ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
- (•_•)
- ( •_•)>⌐■-■
- (⌐■_■)
- [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
- (シ_ _)シ
Few more for the set:
- (ｏ・・)ノ”(ᴗ ᴗ。)
- (╹╭╮╹)凸
- 凸(｀⌒´メ)凸
- (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ )
- ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
- (∽_∼) ,p
- (∂︹6) ,p
- [¬º-°]¬
- ٩( ᐛ )و
- =͟͟͞͞ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
- ♫•¨•.¸¸♪ (ง ื▿ ื)ว٩(･ิᴗ･ิ๑)۶ ♫•¨•.¸¸♪
- ( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)
- ( ͡°Ĺ̯ ͡° )
- ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
- ｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)
- (゜-゜)
- (っ˘ڡ˘ς)
More:
- (* ^ ω ^)
- (´ ∀ ` *)
- ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
- (o▽o)
- ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ
- (´｡• ω •｡`)
- (o･ω･o)
- ╰(▔∀▔)╯
- (‿)
- (✯◡✯)
- (◕‿◕)
- (ﾉ´ з `)ノ
- (^^)♡
- (*♡∀♡)
- ヽ(♡‿♡)ノ
- (⌒_⌒;)
- (ง ื▿ ื)ว
- (＃＞＜)
- (︶︹︺)
- (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞
- (눈_눈)
- (＃`Д´)
- ٩(╬ʘ益ʘ╬)۶
- (ノ°益°)ノ
- (-_-)
- (｡╯︵╰｡)
- (T_T)
- (｡•́︿•̀｡)
- (ಥ﹏ಥ)
- ☆⌒(> _ <)
- (︶▽︶)╭
- ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- (＠_＠)
- (・・ ) ?
- w(°ｏ°)w
- (⊙_⊙)
- (￣▽￣)ノ
- (づ￣ ³￣)づ
- (^_~)
- (∪｡∪)｡｡｡zzZ
(ಥ ͜ʖಥ)
My hypothesis: Lemmy has an older userbase, and in general older people feel less of a need to express their emotions. They’re busier discussing the topic than highlighting their attitude towards it.
My 80 old father-in-law spams emoticons like he’s a 15 year old girl. Cringe-worthy and hillarious at the same time 😂
I only use emoticons to clarify an emotional message. On forums, I’m more interested in sharing and discussing ideas and opinions. Emoticon spam makes me sick with worthless cringe.
I use emojis only because my phone suggests them at the end of sentences 🙃
I think most oldies are embarrassed by them. I’m not though, but I only surf the world wide web from my phone, so perhaps I’m more hip 😎
I think people 😘 find them more obnoxious 😱 than informative, and rate 💯 opinions higher than 😜 emotional reactions, because emotions are 🤑 cheap and add nothing to a constructive 🏗️ discussion
I’ll probably respond here instead of under the post: I use emojis to denote sarcasm or strong reactions usually, so I don’t feel the need to spray posts with them.
Otoh they do have an ability to make anything seem silly and/or advertising 😅 so for the comical effect, why not 乁( ⁰͡ Ĺ̯ ⁰͡ ) ㄏ
Emotional Italians will disagree with you.
Emoji give us an extra avenue of encoding emotion into our text, something that is usually difficult. So I think everyone should be using them 🤓
I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I’m not sure if they work terribly well
🤟 That’s… Metal, man.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Your arm’s off!
Tis but a flesh wound
I’m coming from the old ages of internet where we didn’t have them. I’m fine with them, but I’m too old to use them comfortably.
It’s fine. Use them if you like, but I don’t really see the value in systems such as Discord where you pay money to have special emojis and so on…
Scott E. Fahlman proposed using :-) and :-( to mark jokes and not-jokes respectively in internet posts in 1982, and they (and lots of variations) have been in use ever since. IBM’s Codepage 437 character set (as used by the original PC) had two dedicated smiley characters even before that.
There was no golden age of the internet where there were no emoticons.Old internet days you went to a site to make them for you and you copy pasted them into some stupid AOL/ICQ chat , and then later on for me irc. Now they are part of a lot of clients UI. (⌐■_■)
you dont even have a pfp
Back in my day we called them avatars, youngster!
Usually I only use them when I personally know who I’m talking to. Because who knows how a random person will react to an emoji, misunderstanding their meaning, unintentionally or intentionally.
I also sometimes use them to indicate how casual my post is and should not be taken too seriously.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
