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emoticons

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

Internet Culture
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

Internet Culture
( ͡° ͜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

Internet Culture

Emoji vs. emoticon: What’s the difference?

:-)

On Jun 22, 2016 by Amrita Khalid

Tech
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

Tech

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

Tech

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

IRL

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

ASCII and you shall receive.

On Nov 10, 2014 by Marisa Kabas

Tech

A guide to ‘Star Wars’ emoticons

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

On Aug 28, 2014 by Eric Geller

Internet Culture Parsec

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

Tech

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

Internet Culture

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

Internet Culture

Skype removed some of its more ‘offensive’ emoticons

RIP, smiley face giving the middle finger. 

On Apr 25, 2014 by EJ Dickson

Tech

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

IRL

We react to emoticons the same way we react to human faces

Go ahead and put that :-) in your email. 

On Feb 15, 2014 by Kevin Morris

IRL

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