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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Uh, sure, ^^ has been so popular that even some renowned German news webpages have articles on it:

Wikipedia also mentions it:

Im Internet werden zwei Zirkumflexe (^^) verwendet, um Freude oder Belustigung über die vorhergehende Aussage auszudrücken. Die beiden Symbole sollen vor Kichern zwinkernde Augen darstellen. Man findet es in Chatgroups, Foren, MMORPGs und dergleichen

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirkumflex#Verwendung

I guess, here's some less good English sources, too:

And I'd wager more than 90% of the folks on feddit.org have used ^^ before, if you want to ask real people about it.