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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] hector 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

(☞゚ヮ゚)☞ I still do that :) !

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I still do

";-;" conveys a fundamentally different vibe as compared to 😭, even if both nominally mean "crying"

Same for ":)" vs. 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

My fav is giving one of theses

-___-

and if they don't get the message

-___________-

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I first got on the Internet just as the shift from :-) to :) was happening, only geezers still used :-) and :) was the hip new thing...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

In my time we used ^^ and -.-

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It makes me sad that in many chat programs anymore, expressing joy or general contentment with "carat-underscore-carat" is no longer supported.

Alas, even here

^_^

Shows as "sup" between angle brackets. :(

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

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

This was much later. At the time unicode was not supported throughout the internet, so we were limited to ansi/ASCII.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I've of my faves was: \m/ (>_<) \m/

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] admin 9 points 1 day ago

I can't stop reading it as equis de (the Spanish pronunciation)

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Timeless. Emoji's take too much time and have less "soul".

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kids today just won’t understand. T__T

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh God it's me... I'm old now.

I don't like the pictures... I always prefer to use text except for when something really disgusts me, then I happen to like "🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh God it’s me… I’m old now.

it'll happen to you too!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Greetings from 1990s Japan.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (*´∀`*) ( ^ω^ )

╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

(=´∀`)人(´∀`=)

ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(; ̄◇ ̄)┘

ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ

(つД`)ノ ( ̄◇ ̄; )( ´_ゝ`)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can't take our emoticons from our dead hands! ((-(-_(-_-(-_-)-_-)_-)-))

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice humblebrag about still feeling emotions.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I still do :/

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (9 children)

...at the time? They're not still cool?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I've never stopped using emoticons. :P

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whenever a sentence needs some indicator of humor or sarcasm, I reach for :p

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

[]D ][ []\/[] []D ][ []\[]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still miss the old :S from the msn days. Nothing really conveys the same emotion nowadays

[–] neidu3 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I used (and still sometimes use) o_O for the same reaction

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the day i don't :3 is the day i'm dead

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