Emoji were a mistake.
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY :S? WHERE IS MY o_0?? THESE ARE MY EMOTIONS 99% OF THE TIME!
Now I have to make do with π€ which suggests a wholly undeserved air of intellectualism.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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I kid you not there's not a fucking >:) emoji HOW DID THEY MISS THAT ITS SO BASIC
>:3
π
What's wrong with this?
its so racist against purple people do i look purple?
You are SO right! AIIGH!
Where did they go... >>
They can't even capture the subtlety of :p versus :P it never looks right because it removes the imaginative component
Can't you just do the old school ones anyway? There's an issue with simple ones like :) where it gets auto-replaced but the more exotic ones should be fine.
No because then I'd look unfashionable :(
See? See how unfashionable I look??? And even worse, inconsistent if some get auto-replaced and others don't. And even WORSE when my :D gets replaced with an emoji with CLOSED EYES which is clearly only appropriate for eyes like in ^_^
This is important.
User a youthful emoji like XD
I think XD was youthful 20 years ago. Don't forget to take your ibuprofen...
At text sizes I'm comfortable with, emoji almost always render too small. It's easy for me to tell :) from :( but π and π are yellow circles. To tell them apart I have to lean forward.
Or you get into the noun ones that aren't facial expressions, people use wrong. There's an entire group of pictograms but they're added redundantly to words. So you don't get "I stuck a π΅ up my π" you get "I stuck a cactus π΅ up my dick π" for no reason I can think of.
Combine that with the fact that...I nearly never open the emoji drawer and find an expression that conveys the actual expression I want, and yeah emoji were a mistake.
( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
ΰΌΌ;Β΄ΰΌΰΊΆ Ϋ ΰΌΰΊΆΰΌ½
β(^o^γ)βδΈ
(β―Β°β‘Β°)β―οΈ΅ β»ββ»
I always loved the way :P looks and hate the emoji version ππ
Also I made up my own once for sarcasm ;:)
Hey, that sarcasm one is pretty good! One of those "why didn't I think of that?" things for me :D
Thanks! Think of all the miscommunication we could avoid with such an emoji
Yeah, the :P version includes some mischievousness that the icons don't capture. It's like banter vs goofing around. They are similar but not quite the same, so the icons miss the mark.
For me, it kinda personifies the whole corporate approach to existence, where their understanding is close but also misses the point in very fundamental ways. Like a charicature of itself.
d:
Hey man, I just want everyone to have fun
Found the girlfriend
No, but I am poly
Β―\(γ)/Β―
π€·ββοΈ
guess that guyβs girlfriend is gonna fuck that guyβs boyfriend
π¦
This π«ͺ one is the only acceptable emoji in my opinion
I like this one. π«©