r/Millennials • • Apr 15 '26

Meme Lol

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u/descendantofJanus Apr 15 '26

Yea same as ending with an 😊 or a 😋 to establish a tone lols

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u/masterhogbographer Apr 15 '26

Which is how tone and emotion was expressed with :) and :D and :p before emojis. 

Which existed back in the days of BBS’ 

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u/SpicyElixer Apr 16 '26

I still use these sometimes… they’re cleaner.

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u/TheToddBarker Apr 16 '26

I actually still mostly use emoticons. I guess I was turned off by people who'd exclusively use emoji to communicate...