An emoticon in the same series as ones like OwO or UwU or °w° etc. I suppose they’re pretty much localized to the furry fandom. =w= in this case is used to express no strong emotion in particular… mostly like mild tiredness or slight annoyance
Ah, I thought it was something like that, but with client integration.
I remember back in the days of phpBB and vBulletin forums and MSN Messenger, they had special emoticons that would replace text strings with a graphical icon, say, 8) would make a smiley face with sunglasses. Or (L) would make a heart.
I got so annoyed at how out of place the graphical emoticons looked that I trained myself to write them backwards to not trigger the program to replace my text.
So instead of writing :) I write (:
Just as I wrote that sentence, I reflexively reversed the first smiley and got confused when I was about to write the second…
Sorry for the tangent, and thanks for the explanation.
Ah, I developed a similar habit for certain emoticons within messaging apps for example for something like :3 I’d replace the number 3 with the Cyrillic letter З which tends to look the same in most fonts, or otherwise switch the characters around as you do to not trigger the automatic emoji replacement haha
An emoticon in the same series as ones like OwO or UwU or °w° etc. I suppose they’re pretty much localized to the furry fandom. =w= in this case is used to express no strong emotion in particular… mostly like mild tiredness or slight annoyance
Ah, I thought it was something like that, but with client integration.
I remember back in the days of phpBB and vBulletin forums and MSN Messenger, they had special emoticons that would replace text strings with a graphical icon, say, 8) would make a smiley face with sunglasses. Or (L) would make a heart.
I got so annoyed at how out of place the graphical emoticons looked that I trained myself to write them backwards to not trigger the program to replace my text.
So instead of writing :) I write (:
Just as I wrote that sentence, I reflexively reversed the first smiley and got confused when I was about to write the second…
Sorry for the tangent, and thanks for the explanation.
Ah, I developed a similar habit for certain emoticons within messaging apps for example for something like :3 I’d replace the number 3 with the Cyrillic letter З which tends to look the same in most fonts, or otherwise switch the characters around as you do to not trigger the automatic emoji replacement haha