🤷 is so weak compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as well.
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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ 🙃🤕
o7 :D ;-; >_<
Can't forget the classics!
₍^. .^₎⟆
Need these hotkeyed
On mobile, Emotic (from fdroid) helps. but it needs a larger catalog
On ios you can go to Settings>Keyboards>text replacement and enter in the shortcut you like.
Nothing will ever beat the classic :3
Some arabic letters get extremely and I mean EXTREMELY close to non-sideways ":3" especially when you count punctuation and persian alphabet.
They look nice but their meanings aren't that clear to me, compared to emojis.
Heh, the 😅 is the one emoji people have understood me the most wrong using. Then I go and copy-paste its description from the Internet.
It could just be an audience problem. Teenagers have a whole lingo I am not privy to. Does that mean they are wrong? I probably know more words than the average teenager. Does that mean I'm using them wrong? A lack of knowledge from one party or both can lead to miscommunication. That doesn't automatically mean someone is wrong. I used to use the term POS in the early days of my Internet use. It meant parent over shoulder so that my friends knew why if I was acting differently all of a sudden. My parents thought I was calling them a piece of shit or referencing point of sale. The former was just funny and the latter was a bit silly. They figured they were just missing something, but it didn't mean they were using POS wrong. They just lacked the knowledge on one use for a different age group.
Kaomoji render correctly across all platforms, whereas emojis looks different across different vendors.

There's even been proper academic research done confirming the discrepancy.
Emoji Face Renderings: Exploring the Role Emoji Platform Differences have on Emotional Interpretation | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior | Springer Nature Link - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10919-019-00330-1
From a techical perspective I'm still annoyed that the amorphous blobs were not the agreed default. They are the simplest to store in SVG, have no gradients to render, and being non-human makes them not require skin/gender modifiers. All expression, nothing more.
So the speech bubbles read right to left, but the panels are left to right.
I was not ready for this first thing in the morning.
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