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BumRushDaShow

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18. In that case, it doesn't seem to be iniitals. And right here on DU

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #17)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:46 PM

17 hrs ago

you can generate some of the smilies manually using the alphanumeric characters like = the ":" next to a "D".

I believe the point of that, which is popular among the GenZ crowd, is to use the text equivalents of emojis for "reactions" when texting (and they spend all day and night texting and swiping ).

You might have stuff like this -

8^D

or

:^D

or

:-O

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I know Apple has an emoji that looks like this BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #13

Yeah, is that what uwu or owo means? nt intrepidity 18 hrs ago #14

Doing a quick search, supposedly " owu" references this - BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #15

Right, but just that it is an emoji intrepidity 17 hrs ago #17

In that case, it doesn't seem to be iniitals. And right here on DU BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #18

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