gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??
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actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY
so like
…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading
also websites that automatically replace your typed out <3 and :D with emojis upon sending them are a Danger To Everything That’s Good In The World
bring back nose smilies :-)
There is no emoji that captures what I mean by :P (I do NOT mean “hur hur goofy-ass face!”) and the one for :^/ is not great. And lest we forget, 🤷🏻♀️ is absolutely inadequate compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Faces no emoji has ever managed to capture, imo:
:P
^_^
:3
^u^
:/
O.o
0.0
>:/
<(^u^)>
I am too old to stop using XD
i have never yet found an emoji that fully captures the shifty energy of:
>_>
<_<
Oh man, I’ve missed O.o
Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.
O.o
o.O
O.o
Whatever the name of this team is, I am on it
this is awesome
._. is pretty good too and 😐 just ISN’T THE SAME
XD, ^-^, :3, <3, and =P until death
¬_¬ is the most eloquent keystroke combo
U_U is my fav, and also O_O
the SHEER MISCHIEF of OvO
me af
Some personal favorites of my own:
:3c
>:3c
OF7o
òwó
ú_ù
n_n
owo
oTL
=(Ô . Ô)=
Kaomoji (≧ᗜ≦)
>:3 Rawr
Personal faves:
TTwTT
83
8U
>8U
>8Oc
>////<
>////>
(-^_^-)
( 6w6;;;)
( > ^ <;;)
=(^w^)=
\o/
OTL
my favorite thing is that my phone has a built-in emoticon part so I can super easily just do
✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧
( ˘ ³˘)♥
( T_T)＼(^-^ )
ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ
〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜
ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻
ಠ_ಠ
with just a quick little tap
you can pry good old fashioned emoticons from my cold, dead hands
(and even then it’s gonna be a struggle)
…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
