I can no longer show the MIRTH I am experiencing in text. I am forced to 😀! by default, I must instead 😁! and yet this still does not convey the same emotion as :D! My full digital self laid low, compacted into a numb representation of itself.
We used to be netizens. We used to trawl the information superhighway. We used to be a society. Look at what we've been reduced to.
Born to :D! forced to 😄,😙, and 🤣
:P is the worst of these because absolutely no drawn image has ever encompassed the correct emotion
When emoji first started being popular, I was really obnoxious about insisting on using emoticons instead, before gradually shifting to overusing emoji out of convenience/habit.
These days, I'm finding myself shifting more and more back into the comforting embrace of :D and u_u
