Totally agree, if I'm using a smiley and not an actual emoji. It's really weird, but in Hipchat, it always throws me off a little bit when I include an emotico

Totally agree, if I'm using a smiley and not an actual emoji. It's really weird, but in Hipchat, it always throws me off a little bit when I include an emoticon, but the resulting graphic conveys a slightly different connotation than I was expecting.