• volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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        19 days ago

        I once broke up with someone because he couldn’t stop using ^^ after every sentence even in the middle of a serious discussion/argument

        Peter I swear to God if this is how we meet again I’ll lose it

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      Been using it since early 2k AOL/IRC chat and will continue to use it and also

      :D

      XD

      XD

      XP

      :P

      -______- <---- almost every day.

      I rarely use emojis

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        I picked up

        . _.

        From somewhere ages ago and I find myself doing it by reflex now, that’s like the only one of those I ever really used but boy did it stick. The little bit of offset on the eyes in most fonts really gives it that je ne sais quoi that I crave.

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      I’ve used xD since I began using the internet as a kid and I have no plans of stopping.

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      i use it and wonder what people think when i do. they never seem to react negatively. maybe they’re silently judging me

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      RuneScape got me out of the habit of doing this because it always forced the first letter to be a capital and the remaining to be lower-case.

      Xd just doesn’t have the same ring to it