• De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Now that I think about it, I wonder how large the ratio between ‘(’ and ‘)’ across the entire internet is, due to emoticons.

    Most people write them left to right. Now, do people use the smiling one ‘:)’ more or the sad one ‘:(’? My gut feeling would be a larger quantity of positive emotions, however, people tend to use ‘:D’ instead.

    How about individual chats? This could actually be an indicator about the relationship between people, at least in an era before emojis.

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      1 day ago

      :) definitely wins out. Whenever I’m watching a streamer make a prediction that’s amusingly close to the truth, the chat turns into a sea of coy :) comments.

      Also, I feel like the crowd that would use :D have now moved onto emojis.