Fun fact: Japanese emoticons have more focus on the eyes and western ones on the mouth which is a general thing in the cultures. Compare Manga and western comics and the former have big eyes and a small mouth and the latter has the other way around

NGL I prefer Japanese emoticons over the yellow faced emoji.

It's missing (UwU) ...still don't know what it means.

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"Seriously?" and "amazed" being identical would really fuck with you if you're a bit insecure

I find it interesting that these emoticons are hand-drawn.

There's a lot more interpretations than just these.

(OwO)

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What makes them Japanese? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

I actually needed this
anyone got a link to all of them ? so I can copy paste

This is just what we use before the days of smartphones. And it's definitely not something exclusive to Japan nor invented in Japan.

Japanese and cool? Nope.