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The easiest way to be as smug as possible is to add a nose to your emoticons :-)
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came here to say that.
I don’t recall ever hearing anyone call them “smileys”, in particular old chat software. Sounds like the kids word for emoticon.
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I think that's because when I was 15 you were not alive, or maybe just barely.
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I can’t make a snarky comment because I don’t know how old you are
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Also the name smiley is ridiculous and wrong to categorise all emoticons. Would you call :| a smiley?
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Yes. :-|
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Back in my day memes were image macros and emoticons were smileys
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Man I called them smiley’s all the time when I was younger.
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s/‘// Gimme an edit button twitter.
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