I don't know if it's common but for me ":p" is basically the text version of this emoji [edit]: oops HN does not allow emoji … go here https://emojipedia.org/

I don't know if it's common but for me ":p" is basically the text version of this emoji [edit]: oops HN does not allow emoji … go here https://emojipedia.org/winking-face-with-tongue https://emojipedia.org/winking-face-with-tongue