I don’t hop in a lot of online chat boards, but while in Discord or on LINE, I kind of see the classic emoji like ☺ etc., getting used more frequently. Kaomoji are definitely used a lot otherwise! I guess maybe from my perspective, when I see the emoji faces I feel like, yeah, the person on the other side of the screen is older. I use both types and I’m in my mid-thirties.
It seems to have mirrored the western internet. Only older people use 😀 and 🙂 anymore. Same with kaomoji in Japanese.
It’s all line stamps in my experience, usually animated ones and often of famous characters.
They do the cuter the better ><
I see the kaomoji more in “otaku” communities (in-game chat, Discord etc), and my mainstream friends in their late twenties/early thirties use the LINE or iPhone emojis.
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I don’t hop in a lot of online chat boards, but while in Discord or on LINE, I kind of see the classic emoji like ☺ etc., getting used more frequently. Kaomoji are definitely used a lot otherwise! I guess maybe from my perspective, when I see the emoji faces I feel like, yeah, the person on the other side of the screen is older. I use both types and I’m in my mid-thirties.
It seems to have mirrored the western internet. Only older people use 😀 and 🙂 anymore. Same with kaomoji in Japanese.
It’s all line stamps in my experience, usually animated ones and often of famous characters.
They do the cuter the better ><
I see the kaomoji more in “otaku” communities (in-game chat, Discord etc), and my mainstream friends in their late twenties/early thirties use the LINE or iPhone emojis.
depends on the person. use em if you want