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I guess we lost the universal purpose of the original smiley. It's yellow and looks like nobody in particular, so that it could represent anybody...

• pimeys 9y ago
  Or even better, the original smileys such as: :) :D ;) ...and my favorite :3 These are gender neutral and timeless.
  • eesmith 9y ago
    Or the older ones for the PLATO system: http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html
• mcphage 9y ago
  Thanks to the 20+ years of The Simpsons, yellow is often used to explicitly indicate white people.
  • bluthru 9y ago
    Often? Where else is it used besides The Simpsons?
    • mcphage 9y ago
      There have been over 600 episodes of The Simpsons—that by itself is an “often”.