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‘Pulling Fornite emotes’: Elon Musk’s red carpet poses get memed

Others compared him to a Sim.

On Apr 16, 2024 by Mikael Thalen

Twitch emotes : Emotes bursting from Twitch logo

A beginner’s guide to the most-used Twitch emotes

A guide to the very particular language of Twitch streamers. monkas.

On Apr 27, 2017 by Jay Hathaway

Spy vs. Spy toys

The CIA has been busy … creating a huge list of dank emoticons

The CIA has been hard at work.

On Mar 11, 2017 by David Britton

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Le Lenny Face

The spammy history of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Le Lenny Face

This emoticon looks innocent enough. It's not.

On Jan 26, 2017 by Grant Pardee

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Emoji vs. emoticon: What’s the difference?

:-)

On Jun 22, 2016 by Amrita Khalid

hidden skype emoticons

The best of Skype’s hidden emoticons

These 40 secret graphics will surprise your friends and coworkers.

On Jun 6, 2016 by Amy-Mae Turner

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Google’s new handwriting app tries to decipher our emoji drawings

It can do more than decipher your ugly handwriting.

On Apr 17, 2015 by Jam Kotenko

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There’s a petition to get rid of Facebook’s ‘feeling fat’ emoji

"Fat" and "stuffed" are not the same.

On Mar 4, 2015 by Selena Larson

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The Donger List holds all the ASCII art you could dream of

ASCII and you shall receive.

On Nov 10, 2014 by Marisa Kabas

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A guide to ‘Star Wars’ emoticons

These are the Star Wars emoticons you're looking for.

On Aug 28, 2014 by Eric Geller

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iDiversicon is the one-woman mission tackling emoji whitewashing

It all started when her daughter asked “Why don’t emoticons look like the person sending them?”

On Jul 21, 2014 by Elizabeth Robinson

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The best Twitter emoticons and ASCII faces: Copy from this handy guide

There was no cheat sheet for the most common Twitter emoticons, so we made one ourselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On May 20, 2014 by Taylor Lorenz

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The emoji fortune cookie is the random time suck you never knew you wanted

You'll heart green snake bee yourself thanks to this bit of Internet randomness.

On May 15, 2014 by Greg Seals

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Skype removed some of its more ‘offensive’ emoticons

RIP, smiley face giving the middle finger. 

On Apr 25, 2014 by EJ Dickson

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Are reaction GIFs a form of language?

MIT researchers are testing ways to study the visual language of GIFs.

On Mar 12, 2014 by Aja Romano