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: 🐱
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.
In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.
I propose that we call the symbols in both emoticons and emoji "emos".
And we call emos, goths
I wonder what happened to all the emo girls
no, no … emo and goth are different, goths have fashion sense …
Very true. Also, I believe you forgot to escape the 2nd ^ symbol? I think it should look like this:
=>\^.\^<==>^.^<=
This might be true for you, and your experience, but this distinction is by no means universal. The Unicode standard, for example, has an Emoticons block with all those little images that many people call emoji.
From my experience online, starting before the Web, an emoticon is a simple, abstract emotional content marker that's made from ASCII characters, whereas emoji use expanded, international character sets to build up slightly-more representational images. There's a lot of overlap, but emoticons came from the Anglosphere, while emoji came to the English Internet later on from East Asia, hence the distinct term and similarity of the name emoji to kanji.
In my reckoning, emoticons are displayed sideways to the left, and emoji are displayed upright. 😊