I can't fucking read adobe *eks deh* ever as what they intended it to be, it always seems like the author of the comment / .. is a gen Z laughing out loud about something.

mood

It was the first "smiley" after :), :(, :'( and :D I was exposed to.

Somewhere in '97 or '98 or so, my older half brother (now 45) sent me an SMS message on my Sony Ericsson T10, with only "XD" in it, followed by a message "Cartman". Teenage me didn't understand, until he mailed me a tape with the first season of South Park on it.

In the IRC/ICU/AIM/MSN era, I abused the hell out of that smiley.

So gen z can suck on a big fat 🍆, gen y / millennials own XD™

(:P)

@bittersweet I actually had it first as millennials, but then edited it to gen Z, since I feel it was much more used post 2004.

@JoshBent True 😆

@bittersweet I just noticed, that emoji is literally *eks deh* what the fuck

I found that ‘eks deh’ far to funny.