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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by duckmysick on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33249913)
It seems like we've come full circle then.

Maybe we can expect text emoticons (the ones with a hyphen for a nose) making a comeback soon.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by viridian on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:35PM (#33250100)
They never went away, they just started being used ironically, but yeah, I do think we've already entered a post-ironic phase of text emotes

:-)

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