thanks to emojos now the :) smiley looks wrong, like it's its own emotion, like similar to the 🙃 but not WHOLLY there so it's just halfway, like in a full 90 degree head tilt.
@zatnosk ...what sorcery is this
@Nine I have an IPA phonetic alphabet keyboard on my phone, and there's a button for an arc below that ties two letters together.
Like this: a͜a
@zatnosk oh okay that's friggin cool lol. but now it looks like those two a's have a pair of glary scary eyes beneath them hahah
@zatnosk Mastodon is clearly protecting me from the cognitohazards
@Nine Nah graphical smileys are the ones that look wrong. Embedding a gif in the middle of a sentence single time I want to use an emoticon? Who has that kind of time? 9_9
@matt back in the 90s we had to embed our own gifs manually, uphill both ways
@Nine (: