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Using a lateral click letter for the nose such as in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is believed to originate from the Finnish image-based message board Ylilauta, and is called a "Lenny face". [12] Another apparently Western invention is the use of emoticons like *,..,* or `;..;´ to indicate vampires or other mythical beasts with fangs.
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Since the 1990s, emoticons (colon, hyphen and bracket) have become integral to digital communications, [ 14 ] and have inspired a variety of other emoticons, [ 13 ][ 40 ] including the "winking" face using a semicolon ;-), [ 41 ]XD, a representation of the Face with Tears of Joy emoji and the acronym LOL. [ 42 ]
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website [1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters [2] in the Unicode Standard.Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia [3] or emoji dictionary, [4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes [5] and usage trends.
An ASCII comic is a form of webcomic which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath. [ 10] During the 1990s, graphical browsing and variable-width fonts became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art.
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Template:Emote [edit] 😀 This template is meant to allow people to conveniently use the Unicode emoticons. It is used by using { {emote|xxx}}, where "xxx" includes the unicode number or text shortcut. The names from the mouseover text above work if used directly, and usually if condensed to a key word ("grinning" or "unamused" for example ...
The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", [ 1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [ 2][ 3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year. [ 1]