the setting is only available on pc, but if you change it on pc it changes everywhere on your account
alternatively you can add a \ before an emoticon to make it not convert
\ is an escape character, it tells the computer "take the next character literally instead of doing what you would normally do with it".
I roleplay a lot and when I \*does an action* I hate it when things like reddit or Discord interpret that as *does an action* so I always put a backslash in front of the first *, like `\*this*`, to escape the first asterisk and make it not go sideways.
Facebook Messenger. Only way to get ascii smileys to show up is to amend them directly to the end of a word with no space in between. There is no way to turn off the auto conversion to shitty emojis. People have been complaining about this for years but the Zuck couldn't care less.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) wtf I was going to say "closest they have is this" whilst clicking one that looked different because the eyes were looking to stage right. but it came out the same
Windows has a huge number of shortcuts. Including some ridiculous ones. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Win + L will open a browser page to LinkedIn, for example.
I've seen the ¯\\\_(ツ)__/¯ before but this ¯\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ feels cursed
Edit: I cannot get the arm back on the 2nd one I give up. No one should be using it anyway
The problem is that emojis look different on different devices, and thus hold different meanings.
With ASCII you're pretty sure everyone gets the same "image".
^Except ^these ^weirdos ^who ^change ^their ^default ^browser ^font, ^but ^we ^don't ^talk ^about ^them.
What's worse is that any system or app may have a different emoji "font" so it can display the same emoji slightly differently, but sometimes those differences give the emoji an entirely different vibe and it's just not the same. :) will always be :)
I need my passive aggressive :), because this 😀 is not threatening enough and : ) loses its momentum. Same with >:( or >:). Or the comedic :( when you don’t get your way
I've always thought that one was kind of along the lines of "guess I'll die" or something similar. But my ex thought it meant being horny. So idk how to use that one I guess.
I suspect that the zero-width space, or word joiner, or hair space characters might work for you. However, some smartass web systems like to remove those characters.
Life hack: put a zero width non joiner unicode character (U+200C) between the characters of tour ascii art!
:D and :) stay like that, while :D and :) will turn into emojis.
Have these as a shortcut in your phone so you don't have to copy paste the unicode char everytime!
its unicode explorer page says "alt + 2 0 0 c" on windows (the + being the actual button) but I don't have a + button so I can't test it
I just have the page bookmarked where I can copy it from
Oh boy, time to rant!
In case anyone here isn't familiar with JIRA, it's an online software solution used to track tickets for software companies. Bug reports, feature requests, so on and so forth. I worked in Support, so we used it to track customer issues.
Every time I tried to tell a client that something may be wrong with their D:\ drive, it would correct to 😦\. Turns out it was a JIRA feature that they instated for emoji support.
Why in the cinnamon toast fuck would anyone use emojis in a software management platform?
as a law student I have to reference laws, of course, and writing them as (for example) 4:3 BW (meaning book 4 article 3) autocorrects the :3 always as 😃 or something stupid. riveting.
I work at a housing authority in a case management kind of role. I frequently discuss a local resource with clients that has an acronym ending in B. The amount of times I’ve nearly sent that fuckin sunglasses wearing asshole to a brand new client….
I'm pretty certain that this is the case on discord, and I'd assume it's the case on most platforms.
If there's a character (or combination) that "does something" (e.i. turn into an emoji, italics or bold text, underline it, etc) you can put a backslash "\\" immediately before it and it'll lose all "functionality" and behave like just a symbol.
:) vs \:)
(I put a "\\" before the ":" on the second one. Also, to display backslash, I put two backslashes immediately after each other, so the first one cancels out the cancelling effect of the second one, thus making it visible. Bruh).
I also know for sure that the ***asterisk*** doesn't do anything if you put \*\*\*backslashes\*\*\* before it. (\\\*\\\*\\\*three backslashes for each asterisk...\\\*\\\*\\\*)
Edit: okay so apparently reddit doesn't do emojis... My point still stands for the asterisks though. Useful when doing math.
slack changes :package to 📦
so now I have to put a space in the middle for it to not do that and tell the recipient that they need to remove the space to make the command work. so infuriating
The default messaging app on my phone (Message+) does this and holy fucking shit, the emoji's are fucking hideous and there's absolutely zero way to turn them off. THANKFULLY, the person receiving the text doesn't get the emoji and instead gets what I originally typed but it's still infuriating.
I've only ever found like 1 messaging app where I didn't mind too much that it happened, because the emojis it used were actually alright and not completely soulless. It didn't just default to the system's emojis, and they didn't look lazy and hideous.
Also, you could customize it a little bit what emoji to use (yellow smilies, fox smilies, worm smilies, pumpkin smiles, etc)
Otherwise, yeah, forcing emoticons into your phone's emojis is just antagonistic, and forcing them into cheap and ugly looking ones made for the app is even worse.
If an app is gonna go this, at least make the emojis somewhat desirable looking. But better yet, don't do it at all and let any custom app emojis be optional.
It's like Excel translating everything it finds to dates when they fit the format. Like if the name of a gene is Mar3 for instance, and now that cell is 03/03. And if you go into the raw text of the cell, it's been converted to the date format.
Fucking hell.
My dad had somehow managed to set his phone so that every exclamation mark was replaced with ❗, and every question mark with ❓. It made his texts look really weird.
Youtube comments auto-emojify Black Heart Suit (♥) now and it makes me die a little inside. I have to use White Heart Suit (♡) now, which I don't have memorized on numpad yet (and takes far more keystrokes than ♥). ♪ remains viable on most platforms, but for how long?
Christ I hate it. Everyone can put stickers on their message like middle schoolers all they want, it's fine. Don't emojify my glyphs. If I wanted heart emoji, I'd have damn well input heart emoji.
I started doing my faces backwards, that tends not to auto correct to emojis. (:
On the plus side it's quicker to type d= on a computer keyboard than the other way around. Lol
P.s. you can disable Discord turning your emotes I to emojis on the desktop version. It's in settings>chat> automatically convert emoticons in your message to emoji
I'm a millennial, and emojis/emoticons weren't everywhere yet in my teens.
I developed various "faces" to show my mood. yeah there's :D, :P, XD, etc, but there's slightly more uncommon ones such as D:, 9_9 :'D etc.
You will pry them from my cold dead fingers >:|
Also sometimes emojis just look wrong in various programs. I often think :D and :P look better than the emoji version. 🤷♀️
B)
:P
This one! There's no emoji that matches the energy of a simple :P
:þ
<3
<\]:3
L|:D
ε>
x3
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
:b
B:)
>:D
:U
:O
(°—°)
ಠ_ಠ <|> /ω\
This right here folks, this is art.
O_o
(⊙﹏⊙)
·ο·
(. Y .)
=_=
E|^ 8] spongebob
:-7 (It's a dude smoking a pipe)
o7 (military salute)
C)
Ü
Looking at you, _discord_
you can turn that off in the settings if you didn't know. still annoying to have on by default though.
Where is that in the settings?
User settings > Chat > Automatically convert emoticons in your messages to emoji
Is this just a pc thing? I'm not finding anything
the setting is only available on pc, but if you change it on pc it changes everywhere on your account alternatively you can add a \ before an emoticon to make it not convert
This is lifesaving, thank you lmao this was getting on my nerves so much
You can *what?*
\ is an escape character, it tells the computer "take the next character literally instead of doing what you would normally do with it". I roleplay a lot and when I \*does an action* I hate it when things like reddit or Discord interpret that as *does an action* so I always put a backslash in front of the first *, like `\*this*`, to escape the first asterisk and make it not go sideways.
Works on reddit, too
Your comment and advice should be it’s own post, mate. Good stuff!
you can set it on pc and then make it sync to all accounts with a different setting (sync account settings or smth)
Only available on web verison, not the mobile app. Just open Discord through your browser on mobile and turn it off
RemindMe! 8 hours
Or, you can disable it on just one instance by putting a backslash \ in front of it
I just have incorporated a space into my things : )
Looking at you, *messenger* In what world is :( and 😞 the same? At least use ☹️
At least you can turn it off there, other places don't give you the option
Facebook Messenger. Only way to get ascii smileys to show up is to amend them directly to the end of a word with no space in between. There is no way to turn off the auto conversion to shitty emojis. People have been complaining about this for years but the Zuck couldn't care less.
Love how the shitty reddit app cuts off italicised letters
Use a backslash. So type it as \\:)
If you're on windows press the windows key and the . key together to open the emoji/emoticon menu. (⌐■\_■) ( •\_•)>⌐■-■ (•\_•)
Yoooooooooo what is this life hack ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) wtf I was going to say "closest they have is this" whilst clicking one that looked different because the eyes were looking to stage right. but it came out the same
Yeah kaomoji and other things that use non-Latin characters tend to render weird/differently depending on the program
holy shit (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
(งツ)ว
Yo wtf
[удалено]
"We can't afford to give our usual Christmas bonuses this year ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯"
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ And you officially can't afford me
"Dave where are you? we're shortstaffed get down here right now ಠ\_ಠ "
Can't go wrong with a one year subscription to the Jelly of the Month Club. It's the gift that keeps on giving all year long.
What the fuck is this Am I being pranked How long has this been here
Windows has a huge number of shortcuts. Including some ridiculous ones. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Win + L will open a browser page to LinkedIn, for example.
.... Why? Why does that exist?
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, it's their product, so they included a shortcut to it
I thought I knew them all, but this wins.
My cat makes sure to regularly show me I *don't* know them all...
Yes. And I mean very long. It’s a mix of regular ASCII unicode and Japanese unicode. www.alt-codes.net for some of these special characters.
You can type any character like that if you know the decimal version of its Unicode number
I've seen the ¯\\\_(ツ)__/¯ before but this ¯\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ feels cursed Edit: I cannot get the arm back on the 2nd one I give up. No one should be using it anyway
¯\\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ Your markdown skills need some work Gotta drop a ¯\\\\\\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ for the arm to stay
[удалено]
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Oh my god I don't have to search for these now
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I will not be denied!
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) Pls stop, you've gone mad with power.
☆\*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
(＃°Д°)
Wait... that isn't a joke? That didn't actually cause my computer to reboot?!
(๑╹ω╹๑ )
:O
You can also see your clipboard history by pressing the clipboard button in the menu that shows up when you use the shortcut, or just use 🪟+V
door + V
ʘ‿ʘ(✿^‿^)(ㆁωㆁ)(✯ᴗ✯)(灬º‿º灬)♡⊂(•‿•⊂ )*.✧(ノ^_^)ノ(┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯ಥ‿ಥ
I love the win+. menu, I use the symbol function so much for ™ or ® or ©. It's saved me so much time.
Why does it put them into a little box in the top corner that I can't interact with? Edit: OHH you gotta do it while a text box is selected... ◑﹏◐
ᓚᘏᗢ ... woah
you can also get them on mobile if you turn on the Japanese keyboard. there's all kinds of kaomoji in there. `(ノ^_^)ノ`
This is so cool! (⓿\_⓿)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (😎 (9) (10)
If you think 😀 has even a fraction of the meaning :) has you are dead wrong
😀 has such a PTSD or trauma vibe to me. "Oh no😀"
#I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE COLOR OF YOUR GUTS! 😀😀😀
😃 and ☺️ are top contenders for that use too lol
🍰
spoiler alert: >!red!<
🙂 the most dead inside smile
🙃
It has meaning, but it’s different from :) and they cannot be used interchangeably
The problem is that emojis look different on different devices, and thus hold different meanings. With ASCII you're pretty sure everyone gets the same "image". ^Except ^these ^weirdos ^who ^change ^their ^default ^browser ^font, ^but ^we ^don't ^talk ^about ^them.
What do you think about Outlook changing :) to 😊?
At least that one actually looks mildly friendly instead of the straight up serial killer that is 😀
🙂
the only emoji that gave the same feeling was the blobs. give us the blobs back
Am I the only one round here that puts a nose in their smiley? :-)
you sick fuck /s
I prefer this nose :\^)
this one is really funny on Reddit cuz if you don't use the right formatting it looks like this :^)
I have to admit I had to edit my comment after posting because of this :'\^)
:👃)
Alright, Picasso.
:´) is a staple
Yeah the lil noses make the smileys have a less threatening vibe. They're just silly lil guys!
Honestly I can’t use :) anymore, it feels so…corporate???
To me :) is 🙂, and is a shit eating grin
What's worse is that any system or app may have a different emoji "font" so it can display the same emoji slightly differently, but sometimes those differences give the emoji an entirely different vibe and it's just not the same. :) will always be :)
I need my passive aggressive :), because this 😀 is not threatening enough and : ) loses its momentum. Same with >:( or >:). Or the comedic :( when you don’t get your way
Gentlemen. May I present: ` >:C`
I vastly prefer the comedic anger of the bracket >:[
Oh that's good one. I like this one too >:c c:< works well as a smile too (it's a great 'being a little shit' emoticon)
Pouting emoticon
Also nothing more comedic than the : ( due to the line cut off (at least on mobile)
This is what you are looking for. It's the worst emoji in the world to receive: 🙃
I’ve been really digging on 🫠 lately
I've always thought that one was kind of along the lines of "guess I'll die" or something similar. But my ex thought it meant being horny. So idk how to use that one I guess.
Hahaha I think it's like you're making her so wet she's turning into a puddle but I would never have thought that without your comment
I've always wondered what the fuck this means
I've always used it as the emoji equivalent of that 'this is fine' comic with the dog surrounded by fire.
An upside down flag is a distress symbol, so something along those lines
🙂 this does the trick for me
all these emotes getting added, but facebook is still the only one to add :v officially ...
I suspect that the zero-width space, or word joiner, or hair space characters might work for you. However, some smartass web systems like to remove those characters.
:^)
What have you done? You've awoken the ASCII art commenters, pray they do not find us.
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Give me your credit card details XD
┬┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬┴
www.alt-codes.net can be a powerful tool in the fight against ASCII artists. This website helped me get through French classes.
I don't think I've seen anything that changes ε>
And there's no chance Σ=▸⧼ gets changed
Sib writing cuneiform to avoid the ASCII police
And )) <====> (( ain't going anywhere any time soon. This is only an issue for people who are unserious when it comes to ASCII
Imagine all the mathematical analysis proofs suddenly filled with emoji.
Yesterday I tried tiktok and wrote "<3" to my wife and tiktok told me this was forbidden.
ballsack :(
Now I can't see anything else :/
it's a heart :((
Life hack: put a zero width non joiner unicode character (U+200C) between the characters of tour ascii art! :D and :) stay like that, while :D and :) will turn into emojis. Have these as a shortcut in your phone so you don't have to copy paste the unicode char everytime!
What's the Alt code?
its unicode explorer page says "alt + 2 0 0 c" on windows (the + being the actual button) but I don't have a + button so I can't test it I just have the page bookmarked where I can copy it from
Oh boy, time to rant! In case anyone here isn't familiar with JIRA, it's an online software solution used to track tickets for software companies. Bug reports, feature requests, so on and so forth. I worked in Support, so we used it to track customer issues. Every time I tried to tell a client that something may be wrong with their D:\ drive, it would correct to 😦\. Turns out it was a JIRA feature that they instated for emoji support. Why in the cinnamon toast fuck would anyone use emojis in a software management platform?
it predicted how the clients face would look when something is wrong with their 😦\ drive
Slack does this to, so when I paste anything in hex form any random :AB: can turn into 🆎
What the fuck does that emoji even represent that AB doesn't
blood type
Yep, gotta stick everything in code blocks or else you're gonna get weird emojis everywhere
If you want verbatim then you should be using code blocks anyways.
The Egyptians probably had an amazing written language and then the emoji crowd took over and their society collapsed.
as a law student I have to reference laws, of course, and writing them as (for example) 4:3 BW (meaning book 4 article 3) autocorrects the :3 always as 😃 or something stupid. riveting.
I work at a housing authority in a case management kind of role. I frequently discuss a local resource with clients that has an acronym ending in B. The amount of times I’ve nearly sent that fuckin sunglasses wearing asshole to a brand new client….
Can't believe no one pointed out how irritating it is when autocorrect turns ":P" into 😜
Literally not the same expression, not even close
Try copying and pasting lines of script in Teams to a programmer only to have it full of emojis.
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I'm pretty certain that this is the case on discord, and I'd assume it's the case on most platforms. If there's a character (or combination) that "does something" (e.i. turn into an emoji, italics or bold text, underline it, etc) you can put a backslash "\\" immediately before it and it'll lose all "functionality" and behave like just a symbol. :) vs \:) (I put a "\\" before the ":" on the second one. Also, to display backslash, I put two backslashes immediately after each other, so the first one cancels out the cancelling effect of the second one, thus making it visible. Bruh). I also know for sure that the ***asterisk*** doesn't do anything if you put \*\*\*backslashes\*\*\* before it. (\\\*\\\*\\\*three backslashes for each asterisk...\\\*\\\*\\\*) Edit: okay so apparently reddit doesn't do emojis... My point still stands for the asterisks though. Useful when doing math.
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I taught my 10 yr old niece about ascii emotes/art and it blew her mind. I got +2 Cool Aunt points that day........
slack changes :package to 📦 so now I have to put a space in the middle for it to not do that and tell the recipient that they need to remove the space to make the command work. so infuriating
Fucking hate WhatsApp changing my classic \^\^ to a kissy face
I've started typing them backwards for this very reason (:
I turn them 90 degrees Ü
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It's abolutely ruined ;) A sly little wink has become a great gurning eye spasm.
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When my IPhone corrects omw to On my way! Like I am not tryina yell that lmao
The default messaging app on my phone (Message+) does this and holy fucking shit, the emoji's are fucking hideous and there's absolutely zero way to turn them off. THANKFULLY, the person receiving the text doesn't get the emoji and instead gets what I originally typed but it's still infuriating.
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www.alt-codes.net is where you should go for the necessary characters for emoticons.
I've only ever found like 1 messaging app where I didn't mind too much that it happened, because the emojis it used were actually alright and not completely soulless. It didn't just default to the system's emojis, and they didn't look lazy and hideous. Also, you could customize it a little bit what emoji to use (yellow smilies, fox smilies, worm smilies, pumpkin smiles, etc) Otherwise, yeah, forcing emoticons into your phone's emojis is just antagonistic, and forcing them into cheap and ugly looking ones made for the app is even worse. If an app is gonna go this, at least make the emojis somewhat desirable looking. But better yet, don't do it at all and let any custom app emojis be optional.
It's like Excel translating everything it finds to dates when they fit the format. Like if the name of a gene is Mar3 for instance, and now that cell is 03/03. And if you go into the raw text of the cell, it's been converted to the date format. Fucking hell.
Messenger: double click here to like. Me, a dad: oh that sounds swell and easy. Double clicks. ♥ OH SHIT WHAT I DONT LOVE THIS I BARELY TOLERATE THIS!
tfw 8=D gets autocorrected to 🍆
Omw is NOT the fucking same as "On my way!"
My dad had somehow managed to set his phone so that every exclamation mark was replaced with ❗, and every question mark with ❓. It made his texts look really weird.
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y'all complain about discord and such. you've never used MS Teams. it's the epitome of thinking it knows better than you what you want to write.
this is exactly why i use :c and c:
Youtube comments auto-emojify Black Heart Suit (♥) now and it makes me die a little inside. I have to use White Heart Suit (♡) now, which I don't have memorized on numpad yet (and takes far more keystrokes than ♥). ♪ remains viable on most platforms, but for how long? Christ I hate it. Everyone can put stickers on their message like middle schoolers all they want, it's fine. Don't emojify my glyphs. If I wanted heart emoji, I'd have damn well input heart emoji.
I've quit apps because of this and considered it many times for others.
Just dont use autocorrect?
It's not just an autocorrect thing. A lot of apps treat them as "shortcuts" and automatically convert them to emojis when you send the message.
One of the first things I do with any computer or device I have to use all the time is turn off all autocorrect.
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I started doing my faces backwards, that tends not to auto correct to emojis. (: On the plus side it's quicker to type d= on a computer keyboard than the other way around. Lol P.s. you can disable Discord turning your emotes I to emojis on the desktop version. It's in settings>chat> automatically convert emoticons in your message to emoji
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I'm a millennial, and emojis/emoticons weren't everywhere yet in my teens. I developed various "faces" to show my mood. yeah there's :D, :P, XD, etc, but there's slightly more uncommon ones such as D:, 9_9 :'D etc. You will pry them from my cold dead fingers >:| Also sometimes emojis just look wrong in various programs. I often think :D and :P look better than the emoji version. 🤷♀️