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You're using the Japanese term to obscure. Emoticons were invented first and they are both character based and image based. Later, people started using the ter
by xdennis 3y ago
You're using the Japanese term to obscure. Emoticons were invented first and they are both character based and image based.
Later, people started using the term "emojis" for image emoticons and now some people say only text emoticons are real emoticons.
- layer8 3y agoJust for reference, the Japanese term for emoticons is kaomoji (“face characters”), distinct from emoji.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoImage emoticons did exist (every 2000s IM app and social media site had them), but largely died off with the popularization of Japanese emoji. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37235639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37235639