The style at the time :)

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

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`)

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

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

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

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

Nice humblebrag about still feeling emotions.

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

B=====D~~~~ ( :

( . )( . ) ?

My fav is giving one of theses

-___-

and if they don't get the message

-___________-

Kids today just won’t understand. T__T

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Who am I to say that one can make a file in the home folder called .XCompose where you can easily input emoticons for easy access using the compose key ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

I still do :/

:DDD

I still do

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

Same for ":)" vs. 🙂

XD

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. :(

:3

Embracing it, putting an onion on my belt.

Apparently in some other languages they just use ))) or some crazy number of parentheses, like )))))))

It shouldn't bug me as much as it does, but c'mon, it doesn't even look like a face!

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 "🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮"

There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling!

-Comic Book Guy

https://youtu.be/gsQAQlDeXYM

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

*<:-)

>B-)

One of my faves was: \m/ (>_<) \m/

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@_@,

xD

=D

  :| C<  

  :D G<  

  XD~G<  

  :) C<*

(Any way to remove color/syntax hilighting from this 4-act ascii porn?)

This is cursed af :d

:x

https://asciimoji.com/

Q('.'Q) O-('.'Q) Q('.'Q)

i like emoticons and my hoard of different discord emotes :) i feel half mute when i can't express myself with either

c:

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:v

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