Emoji I guess 😐

I recall making a set of Acmlmboard-style Unicode emoji. I didn't color them or anything, but it was one big strip that had all the smileys in it. None of the other symbols like 💯 or anything.

I too see squares, but only because Opera12 doesn't count that far. If I were to look in IE11... yup, those work.

Could always use that one CDN'd JS where you can automatically replace the characters with Twitter's images.

And yet you arguably used them just now.

Emoji, "picture character", commonly mistaken for "emotion/emoticon character". Related to kaomoji, "face characters". Emoji were introduced by Japanese cellphone carriers.

The only functional difference between 😐💯 and are that one is a distinctly-encoded character and the other a particular sequence of 'em. In the end, both are either replaced by a colorful little image or not. It's quite easy to imagine/implement a thing where both "💯" and ":100:" both result in , after all.

You can't tell me that there's any difference beyond implementation details, compatibility, and typeability between 😀 and . They're both little faces with a particular expression, after all.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter much what you want to call them; you used two more regardless.