• @cordlesslamp
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      2 months ago

      At least in southeast Asia, teenagers has been doing that since the late 90s - early 2000s (I was one of them).

      AFAIK, the Japanese emoticons use a lot of Japanese characters (letters?). For example, /(=✪㉨✪=)\ or (ノ´ヮ`)ノ*: ・゚