Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
Why do Lemmy users rarely use emoticons?
Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?
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second a few other comments, a lot of people conflating emoticons and emojis
- emoticon: ¯(ツ)_/¯
- emoji: 🤷
- emoticon: =>.^<=
- emoji: 🐱
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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.
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In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.
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I propose that we call the symbols in both emoticons and emoji "emos".
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And we call emos, goths
I wonder what happened to all the emo girls
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no, no … emo and goth are different, goths have fashion sense …
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Very true. Also, I believe you forgot to escape the 2nd symbol? I think it should look like this:
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=>\^.\^<=
=>.<=
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