One can also add a '}' after the mouth character to indicate a beard. ')' for a smiley face or '(' for a sad face. However, an equals sign, a number 8, or a capital letter B are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, or those with glasses, respectively. Typically, a colon is used for the eyes of a face, unless winking, in which case a semicolon is used. One will most commonly see the eyes on the left, followed by the nose (often not included) and then the mouth. Also, try to make some emoticons on your own who knows, you just might come up with the next ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) that has every forum and comments section laughing.Western style emoticons are mostly written from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. If you spot a face that I have not included, please submit it using the email link above. And as new languages with new symbols are beginning to populate the internet, we will only see cooler and more creative smileys! This website is the place to find them. Today, people are wildly creative with their creations. Because these emoticons take up so much more space than usual, they are often regarded as more “spammy” than their counterparts. This was namely used on blogs and in IM chat rooms to emphasize that one was “really happy” (or, in the opposite context, really bored or really sad). Here, the long face (^_^) using lots of underscores was born. Parenthesis were often dropped altogether in the style of the new ‘international’ mixtures. Once Westerners had a mastery of the Japanese smileys and the Japanese had a good grasp on the Western smileys, we began to see rich opportunities for even more creative masterpieces. This character’s eyes were made from Kannada letters: ಠ_ಠ. More obscure languages, like Kannada, allowed for unexpected and particularly specific emotional portrayals. The simple tilt of the slant above the accented “o” serves to create an entirely opposite effect. Brazilians, for example, figured out that accent marks could be used a wide range of “eyebrow” emotions, like ò_ó or ó_ò. Once more language packs became more available to everyone, we began to see really interesting results. For example, the small “wa” in this character: ôヮô and the accented “o”‘s hail from both Finnish and Japanese. With time and more ASCII additions, people began to mix languages to make emoticons that could portray things never before seen online. t(o_ot), for example, was used as a way to show the middle finger - it essentially meant “f**k off!” Also, we began to see ‘vampire’ compositions that used commas and periods as ‘snake eyes’ and ‘fangs’ (i.e. Also around this time, the emoticon expanded from base emotions into portraying gesticulations too. These kinds of characters became known as “kirbys,” an ode to Nintendo’s lush, pink, and oh-so-squish-able mascot. This is an example of one media following another! Who would have ever thought that something as simple as little kawaii text faces would have so much cultural sway?ĭifferent ASCII techniques came into existence, and suddenly the world began seeing things like braces and carrots >o^^)> started to rocket in popularity. Sometimes, in certain anime, one can see the artist actually draw three lines onto the face of the subject. Similar to the ‘mushroom-butt cheek’ in anime, using /// gave a feeling of blushing. Dashes were given to show contempt (-_-) or sleepiness. Later, when individuals actually wanted to get across a dead guy, they’d use “X”‘s, like in the case of this face: X_X.Īfter some time, people began to get more creative with portraying what they wanted with a horizontal face. The use of asterisks as eyes was, though, particularly different from the internet standard at the time (the standard :-) face). Most of the time, they weren’t really cute - because characters were limited, you’d often only see stuff like (*_*) and other dead-looking faces. Known as the kaomoji, early internet practitioners in Japan didn’t think that one should have to tilt their heads to the left to see what emotion someone was trying to portray. In 1986, Japanese users began using a particular kind emoticon.

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