Someone just introduced me to facepalm kaomoji: (-‸ლ) It is so beautiful.
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Emoji are restrictive as building blocks. They’re only lego bricks, although admittedly nice-looking ones. Emoticons and kaomoji give you bricks, too, but also opportunities to create new ones. (To Slack’s credit, they found a way for you to print new emoji bricks.)
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Kaomoji and emoticons function at a nice level of abstraction, too. Regular punctuation (e.g. ! ? ;) is very abstract. Emoji are very literal. It’s easier for me to see myself in the facepalm above; harder when it comes to
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It feels it all goes back to Scott McCloud:pic.twitter.com/wZSQzzJm6H
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Kaomoji and emoticons are also interesting because they fit with text well – they’re the same strokes, the same colour. Emoji and text never quite belong.
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However, punctuation and emoji are designed. Emoticons and particularly kaomoji are… awkward-looking. They are usually put together from weird ill-fitting pieces, often different fonts. The most inventive ones are at more risk of falling apart on different platforms than emoji.
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But when they work… I mean, just look at this: https://twitter.com/hels/status/990639794765160449 …
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Or, this! I mean, how is that not the most beautiful of things:https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/990640571780825088 …
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I use
@TouchPal keyboard which has a kaomoji button ʕ•̫͡•ʕ*̫͡*ʕ•͓͡•ʔ-̫͡-ʕ•̫͡•ʔ*̫͡*ʔ-̫͡-ʔpic.twitter.com/J2uhcIgmnp
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I’ll check it out!
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