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
I use emoji, kaomoji AND emoticons. They all have different moods!!
🤷🏻 is like ‘i have no idea’.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is like ‘who knows. nothing in life matters & we were all born to die’
@_@ is superior in every way to aby emoji
owo
nothing comes close 2 the lvls of mischief :> and >:> have
😼 will never be as good as >:3
I like õ_õ
Personally I will never give up >:O and >:)
I also really miss ~*sarcasm sparklies*~. These days I’ve resigned myself to ✨emoticon sarcasm✨ but it just IS NOT the same.
I feel all of this in my ancient, shriveled heart.
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