Favorite Emoticons on Forums

[Reverie]

What are some of your favorite emoticons on forums? I like how we have a good data base on newer software, but man do I miss the custom emoticons!

I loved the one that was whistling

and the wub one with hearts

as well as this one

(I don't have those with them on a base... but you can envision it lol. )

 

[prophet]

honestly those 3 were my favorites. :r :wub:

 

[Cedric]

Yeah, I've used those three a LOT! Reminds me to make a base here and add those to the custom list.

 

[Reverie]

Do either of you remember what we called the one below? :3 :# ? @Cedric @prophet I know we had a :3 one too though... I always forget.

 

[prophet]

Do either of you remember what we called the one below? :3 :# ? @Cedric @prophet I know we had a :3 one too though... I always forget.

Pretty sure we used :#

 

[Reverie]

Pretty sure we used :#

Would explain why it was habbit to put :# lol. Thank you! I think you are right.

 

[Cedric]

There we go.

Edit: added them to the selector.

 

[Reverie]

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There we go.

Edit: added them to the selector.

:wub::wub::wub::wub: YOU JUST MADE MY WEEK.

 

[Cedric]

:wub::wub::wub::wub: YOU JUST MADE MY WEEK.

:wub: You're welcome.

 

[Reverie]

Here's some others I enjoyed! Jasper made these <3 Love them still though.

 

[Cedric]

Here's some others I enjoyed! Jasper made these <3 Love them still though.

Added those.

And made one for you. :excited: :reverie:

 

[Reverie]

Added those.

And made one for you. :excited: :reverie:

Oooh I rather love that one too!!!! :reverie:

 

[Cory]

The good old thumbs-up always cheers me up.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I always liked the old dancing banana emoticon. xD I'm also fond of the emoticon banging it's head against a brick wall, not sure why I find it amusing. xD

 

[Arantor]

🍌 was the bomb.

One place I frequent has a bunch of custom emoji that were born out of meme conversations, e.g. :airquotes: is a picture of Dr Evil doing air quotes. We also have the girl from 'but why not both' that gets a lot of use. troll and :trollface: are regulars, the facepalm yellow face emoji with a Captain Picard uniform (and later, the Picard facepalm), a rolling eyes emoji, one of Philip J Fry holding out money (in the shut-up-and-take-my-money pose)...

Oh, and we mustn't forget Inigo Montoya with :you-keep-using-that-word:. It is a very silly place with a lot of its own internal memes and in-jokes like all the best communities. For example, we get far too much mileage out of a person with their hand up :um-actually:, the same person with their hand half lowered :um-nevermind: and the um-actually guy with a necklace wrapped around the hand because years ago, someone went to call someone else a pedant, and it was typoed as pendant and this stuck. Needless to say pendant is a regular feature too.

 

[Reverie]

🍌 was the bomb.

One place I frequent has a bunch of custom emoji that were born out of meme conversations, e.g. :airquotes: is a picture of Dr Evil doing air quotes. We also have the girl from 'but why not both' that gets a lot of use. troll and :trollface: are regulars, the facepalm yellow face emoji with a Captain Picard uniform (and later, the Picard facepalm), a rolling eyes emoji, one of Philip J Fry holding out money (in the shut-up-and-take-my-money pose)...

Oh, and we mustn't forget Inigo Montoya with :you-keep-using-that-word:. It is a very silly place with a lot of its own internal memes and in-jokes like all the best communities. For example, we get far too much mileage out of a person with their hand up :um-actually:, the same person with their hand half lowered :um-nevermind: and the um-actually guy with a necklace wrapped around the hand because years ago, someone went to call someone else a pedant, and it was typoed as pendant and this stuck. Needless to say pendant is a regular feature too.

I always like the custom ones that are based on the community and the inside jokes! That's awesome sounds like a lot of fun! I love the sounds of the Inigo Montoya one!

 

[Arantor]

We also have one that is a whole bunch of emoji arrows, which is for the slightly snarky "The <xyz thread> is :arrows:" implying your post might have been a better fit elsewhere, or your post might have been appropriate in another thread, e.g. if it's a post that eventually gets to a point about where it involves Oracle, there might be a "The I-Hate-Oracle Club is :arrows:"

But the biggest in-joke going, almost hilariously, is from emoji themselves; for a while we either didn't have custom emoji (since that forum was a relatively early adopter of Discourse) or it had an issue whereby 🧌 was autocompleted after 🚎 and this turned into the fact that there is a board for outright flaming and all the heated political threads called the Trolleybus Garage, and there are various emoji that spawned from this, e.g. a little garage over the trolleybus.