>mfw people call regular text-based emoticons "emojis"
>mfw people my age who were already using the internet when emoticons were popular are calling them emoji now
WHY??
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>>54296005
get with the times old man
>mfw people call smileys "emoticons"
WHY??
What about avatars instead of profile pictures
I mean internet before was full of stupid boards for faggot furries and such but at least it was much better than the current state
>>54296005
well, ji is one of the readings of 字, which is the Chinese/Japanese ideogram for sign/character.
So I guess the next step will be calling them エモ字?
emojis actually have an encoding while emoticons were just images.