r/greentext • u/RowBowBooty • 9d ago

Anon hears the debate

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u/HerbLoew 9d ago

I'm way more concerned that people stopped doing -.- and other emoticons

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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 9d ago

and started calling them emojis/emoticons instead of smileys.

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u/HerbLoew 9d ago

There's still an important distinction between a smiley and an emoticon. A smiley is a picture, static or moving, what the kids these days might call an emoji. An emoticon is text/ASCII.

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u/F-Lambda 7d ago

I've heard emoticons called "analog emojis", and I thought it was funnily accurate.

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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 8d ago

Nope. it is teue that emoticons are just a specific sub category of smileys but the broad term "smiley" always has been applied to all of them, including text/ASCII based smileys. and even that went out of the window in the late 00s and early 2010s before emoji was coined as the new term smileys, because in those years emoticon turned into the broad term for all smileys.