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		ClassyJacket on Aug 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your brain on emoji Do you mean you use smileys like :) :( :P ? Emotions were the little images you could place amongst text in MSN Messenger.

Nition on Aug 23, 2023 | [–]

As far as I recall it was pretty common to call :-) etc emoticons back in the day. Like 1990s/early 2000s.

mcpackieh on Aug 23, 2023 | [–]

Emoticons were originally and predominately text based ¯\_(-_-)_/¯

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