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)_/¯
also, every emoji equivalent of >_< is wrong. I mean, I like 😖 just fine, but it has DIFFERENT CONNOTATIONS DAMMIT. (unfortunately, however, I have yet to find a text substitute for 😬 and I need one frequently.)
:P pisses me off because every website changes it to “ahego face” NO! THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT! PUT IT BACK I WANTED TO BLEP!
Don’t forget -.- (I use this Waaaayyyh too much)
(via theladyem)
