• @[email protected]
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    552 months ago

    Fun fact: Japanese emoticons have more focus on the eyes and western ones on the mouth which is a general thing in the cultures. Compare Manga and western comics and the former have big eyes and a small mouth and the latter has the other way around

  • Ving Thor
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    312 months ago

    It’s missing (UwU) …still don’t know what it means.

  • Skua
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    202 months ago

    “Seriously?” and “amazed” being identical would really fuck with you if you’re a bit insecure

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      (o_o) (0_0) (O_O)

      I think zero or lowercase o is more “seriously?” and capital O is more “amazed.”

      • @Jomega
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        142 months ago

        This would be easier if the guide maker typed these up instead of drawing them.

    • fmstrat
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      The mouth is different.

      Edit: Or not.

        • fmstrat
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          22 months ago

          Perhaps you are right. I saw the uptick on the right of amazed mouth and thought it was intended to be a different Unicode. But it looks like they’re all ASCII just stylized, so my bad.

          • @[email protected]
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            Big upvote for admitting your error.

            In general, emoticons are easy to write with a normal keyboard, otherwise they don’t fulfill their job of being useable in normal conversations. Exceptions are few ones that include kana which for Japanese people are easy to write but which were adopted by westerners like the shrug emoticon I have to google each time but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            Fun fact: Japanese emoticons are called kaomoji (face characters) and developed independently from western emoticons. Emoji means “picture character” and is etymological unrelated to emoticon or emotion or anything.

  • @ripcord
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    132 months ago

    I find it interesting that these emoticons are hand-drawn.

  • flicker
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    72 months ago

    There’s a lot more interpretations than just these.

  • @Mango
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    32 months ago

    What makes them Japanese? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

    • @iAvicenna
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      32 months ago

      (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

  • Fat Tony
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    12 months ago

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