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[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

:P is appropriate a lot of times when ๐Ÿ˜› is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. ๐Ÿ˜‹ Is what they should use. One looks like you're being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.

[โ€“] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

:P can also be more neutral than happy at times, which is a nuance that the emoji lacks.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah :P growing up for me was always either "yeah that's silly" in a more nondescript way, or it was something akin to "yeah XYZ isn't great but it is what it is" โ€” almost like a diet version of :/

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there's a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I've seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like "this is amusing but also horrible" or "putting on a smile despite everything being awful". Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.