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I believe these text based characters are called emoticons whereas an emoji is an image.

Well, then I was absolutely wrong.

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I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.

I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.

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