Yes it really is a thing

Thought Monzo might have made a thread with every emoji possible :joy:

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If you’re over 30 they are still emoticons :triumph:

or should I say if you were an internet user in the early 2000’s :wink:

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Emoticons are actually different from emoji. Not massively different, but enough for the different naming.

Emoji are completely standard text characters - part of Unicode, and are rendered differently on each OS.

Emoticons are images rather than text, usually not vector, and generally always render the same on every OS.

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