Animated emoticons can add flair to a website, email or other type of electronic medium. While they may look like video files, they're typically a series of GIF images placed together -- much like ...

Happy birthday smiley: The emoticon turns 30 Well, happy belated birthday, at any rate. Chase Hoffberger. Updated on June 2 2021 10:46 am CDT ...

The emoticon has been upgraded and animated, loved and hated. Emoticons have graced gadgets, T-shirts and more. Witness the emoticon’s lasting impact, and smile if you can.

Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity triggered by looking at an emoticon smiley face is now the same as when someone sees a real smiling human face, scientists from ...

Emoticons are already pretty annoying, ... Emo the Emoticon Brings Annoying Animated Gifs Into Meatspace By Adam Frucci Published September 23, 2009 | Comments (0) | 𝕏. Copied! ...

High on emoticon… Smiley faces have taken over our lives (Picture: File) ‘Hi there! Happy face. Great to see you again. Wink. Oh, you can’t meet me later?

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...

Legendary GIF artist Olia Lialina has been experimenting with the format for more than 15 years. “I love reaction GIFs much more than emoticons,” she told the Daily Dot. “They are ‘hyper ...

Not so excited about other people using you as an emoticon? Tough luck. Profile pictures and usernames are public, so this doesn’t technically violate privacy and there’s no way to opt out of ...

I'd always tried saying "smiley face" instead of just "smiley" and gave up with the assumption that Apple just didn't make this possible. I was excited to find out two of the three emoticons I use ...

BlackBerry Messenger 6.1 brought along some cool new features, one of which is the ability to use animated icons for your avatar. While you can download them at various places on the web, not many ...