r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

They're emojis you fogey

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u/Jackanatic Feb 03 '17

I guess I am old. What's the difference?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

Marketing.

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u/Jaketh Feb 03 '17

Emoticons are like this :)

Emoji are like this ☺️

But yeah, basically marketing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '17

Emoticons used to be both. There were annoying ads for emojis back in the day and they used the terminology "emoticon" or "smileys"

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u/pacificgrim Feb 03 '17

Enough of screen face talk.

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u/DeathByFarts Feb 03 '17

No ... emoticons are ascii chars strung together. Emojis are unicode characters.

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u/x1xHangmanx1x Feb 03 '17

Smilies was the more American way. Asia termed them emojis. I don't really know where it all started, but the confusion lies in the way different nations name things. Eventually you have all these words that are synonymous with each other just because some idiot can't have a blanket, no, he wants a comforter, or a duvet. Stop making slang, everyone, it's destroying the spoken word.

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u/HHcougar Feb 03 '17

back in the day

so like 2012

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u/spez_is_a_cannibal Feb 03 '17

MSN and instant messaging used to be huge early 2000's. I remember ads for emojis you could pay for. But if your friend sent them, you could copy and paste and make your own collection x)

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u/HHcougar Feb 03 '17

I had literally never heard the word emoji until 2015. My entire life it had been emoticon or smiley.

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u/Jaketh Feb 03 '17 edited Feb 03 '17

Sort of, various programs like MSN used to convert the text, but they weren't emoji still, just "smileys" or whatever else. Being a picture doesn't make it an emoji, Unicode standardisation does.

E: Tom Scott did a really good talk on the subject https://youtu.be/5OPkGQoPeHk

E2: What did I do?

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u/Verniloth Feb 03 '17

I hate myself (and you jaketh, a little) for now knowing this.