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I've seen this face around the Internet for quite a while now, and I've thought about creating an entry for it. I need more sources to prove its popularity, the only one I truly know is the second definition for ":^)" in Urban Dictionary. Also that gif at the bottom of this paragraph. Anyone have any other images, videos or stuff about it?
Might wanna see our existing article
:^) has been around since the earliest days of the internet, I know that much. I remember seeing :^) years before I starting seeing :) or 8^) or :-) or }:^( or any kind of derivative. But :^) in particular would have arrived around the same era that :-) did, sooner or later
It's one of those things that has always been around so no one really questions its existence.
It's really hard to tell where it came from exactly. Emoticons were invented as far back in the days of typewriters So anybody, anywhere could have easily come up with it.
Blue Screen (of Death) wrote:
Might wanna see our existing article
:^) has been around since the earliest days of the internet, I know that much. I remember seeing :^) years before I starting seeing :) or 8^) or :-) or }:^( or any kind of derivative. But :^) in particular would have arrived around the same era that :-) did, sooner or later
It's one of those things that has always been around so no one really questions its existence.
It's really hard to tell where it came from exactly. Emoticons were invented as far back in the days of typewriters So anybody, anywhere could have easily come up with it.
No, :^) has seen a rise in popularity due to people using it as a sarcastic sort of face. It almost has lost it's meaning as a actual smiley and turned into a "I'm totally being sarcastic right now and I hope you know that" face. It's used to poke at people who only think that Advice Animals and Rage Faces are the best and only memes, etc.
I just poked around the 4chan archive for a minute or two and I already found a post related to it.
Context in case you want it.
What other places have you seen it used that way?
Blue Screen (of Death) wrote:
What other places have you seen it used that way?
well i pretty much see it on 4chan.
i see it being used on /mu/ in a sarcastic way all the time, or to mock somebody, overalll give a sense of superiority and smugness.
and of course on /s4s/ ALL THE TIME, even on the official wiki.
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kek :^)
Blue Screen (of Death) wrote:
What other places have you seen it used that way?
OP here, finally thought it was time to deliver.
There were also a TON more incidents where I saw this emote, just that I never screen capped them. Like twistedmetalero said, I saw most of this stuff on 4chan, but it's began to leak out now.
Heck, I could probably go into Riff-Raff right now and spot a few of them.
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