Textfaces? (͡•_ ͡• ) Regular emoji? 🤔 Old school smileys? :-)
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They’re called Kaomoji btw.
https://www.unicodepedia.com/kaomoji/
Didn’t know that, thanks :)
A few of those actually use emojis in the kaomoji
I use emoticons like I always have :D
Timeless.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
┻━┻ ︵ ¯\ (ツ)/¯ ︵ ┻━┻
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Your parenthesis don’t match .
I’m sorry.
OwO
For some emotions there isn’t even an emoji yet.
UwU
And let’s hope there never is.
I miss my forum emoticons.
Me whenever people used to complain there was no hugging emoji:
(> _ )> <( _ <)
I do not use emojis.
ಠ︵ಠ
I think the “regular” emoji feel somewhat out of place here
Why would anyone need to express emotions in a universal language?
🙄
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(・へ・)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(－‸ლ)
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
ಠ_ಠ
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
xDˣᴰ
Do you copy and paste every time you use text emojis with specail characters? Do you have them saved on your phone/computer for easy access?
Sync has a ton built in, so just a button click.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ಠ_ಠ
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
(👁 ͜ʖ👁)
(งツ)ว
ʘ‿ʘ
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
(シ_ _)シ
Gboard also has them. ლ(・﹏・ლ)
Voyager has some of these built in now
Oh shit I learned something new today. Thanks OP!
If you are on Android…
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slaughter.look.of.disapproval
I use Gboard which has them in the emoji menu: ʘ‿ʘ ᕙ(＠°▽°＠)ᕗ (゜o゜; (＾3＾♪ ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻ ಠ︵ಠ ╏ ” ⊚ ͟ʖ ⊚ ” ╏ →(° °)┗
(Just a few examples)
Thanks for the tip! ♪ \(ω\ )
If you’re on Windows, press the Windows key and the period key to get the emoji keyboard.
Windows also lets you right click for emojis
Is that a Windows 11 thing? I don’t have that on Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise.
I only have Windows 10
Hmm, curious! Does it work everywhere? Like, in Word or Excel or whatnot? I have never seen that feature!
oh I don’t know, I don’t really use word or excel anymore. I’ve only seen it work in Chrome cause I’m a filthy Chrome user.
Aha! I reckon it’s a Chrome feature, then—I haven’t used that!
I have them pinned in my phone clipboard xDˣᴰ
this one. only this one:
We do a little
posting
big fan of the old school blob emoji with cat ears
Emojis like these are built in… 😺 🙀 😻 🐈
Not quite the same, but you can just type :cat and it pops up a quick list.
I gratuitously use cat emoji don’t worry. It’s not the same without blobby though.
Haha fair enough!
Personally, I’m OK with emoji as long as you don’t spam them (3+ times the same emoji is spamming imo)
1 emoji for a normal expression
2 emoji for a heavy expression
3 emoji is still acceptable but my personal limit of tolerance
I’ve always read 3+ back to back as a form of satire or sarcasm
I mainly encountered boomers when reading more than 3 emoji
You can’t go wrong with a table flips (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
they just make me (ノ｀´)ノ ~┻━┻
and then I like to ─=≡Σ((((╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
(┛❍ᴥ❍)┛彡┻━┻
Instance admins can add images to be used as emojis via the emoji picker.
Finally, an emoji that’s worth being that big
I really like
and 
Also all of the agony ones
I like the cowboy one.
It’s like I’m suffering but in a lil hat.
All of the above.
I resisted using emojis for a long time, but I changed jobs during Covid and was working from home permanently. I suddenly worked with a bunch of people I had never met before, and I realized that these people don’t know my demeanor, so they don’t know how to read my tone. I found emojis are almost necessary to convey tone in this situation. And after that, it kinda stuck.
I’m a fan of emojis that I can hear.
Old school smileys :-) because My Keyboard app doesn’t have a emoji board.
3 emojis that complete a thought like:
🛩️💥🥂
General Pringles?
SHOIGU!!!
My usage is fairly restricted:
I am old school :)
ASCII alone already does offer a rather wide range of emotions, no need for unicode. :D
I read somewhere that proper emojis are more accessible for screen readers, so I’ve avoided using the old style smiley versions and textmojis ever since.
what are proper emojis?
😃
This is “proper”: 😀
This is “old-timey”: :D
good to know! 🤩
I like the classic ಠᴗಠ text faces
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.
(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
☜(°ヮ°☜)
ASCII smileys, like the middle-aged guy I am ;)
:) all day
Regular emoji is just easier. But I do have a keyboard shortcut for the ¯\(ツ)/¯ which is my main textface, if annoying to edit his arm back in
The only one I use super frequently is :3 which I imagine isn’t a surprise to anyone lol
Hexbear has so many good ones, I’m quite fond of
& 
But I also grew up on Battle.net playing Starcraft, so I often resort to kirbys. t(" t) (> ")> <(^o^)> (g ")–o
Oh damn, I haven’t seen kirbys in text form in ages.
My keyboard has a built in text face keyboard
( ≧∀≦)ノ
I generally don’t use emojis because I don’t think I understand the nuances of emoji well enough to throw them out there for strangers on the internet to interpret.
just fyi, Matrix has custom emojis per instance and custom to the user like discord does.
Ü