What is this symbol supposed to resemble: <3
A heart?
Ok, that makes sense. Someone used it next to the name of a person he liked.
Or a comatose Mouse
Or a double-scoop ice cream cone on its side
For a long time, I thought they were testicles. Honestly. I couldn’t understand why people were saying “I teabag you”, but thought it was the new hip net slang.
My private whooshing shame 
There’s also the opposite of: <3
</3
And the classic “angry boob”:
>3
(Or is it supposed to be a lion? I can’t tell.)
Today was the first time I’d seen it, and my first thought was “scrotum”. So, you’re not alone.
If I remember correctly from my AOL days, the scrotum one is:
<====B
Ok, I always got the heart…and love how in googletalk it is one of the (very few) animated ones. Your “angry boob” looks like a scrotum to me!
I knew it to be a heart. Scrotum looks correct. I always like the joint </////>`` which looks a bit too close to the tampon <////>~~~~
The only way those could be scrotums is if triangular penises are the norm in your world. :dubious:
</3 = castration?
It’s a heart ^^
No, it should be:
0
#=====D - - -
0
Funny… I’d always seen it as a variant of this…
=====D
(_)
Anyway, I’d seen <3 for a long time, but I never saw anything other than “less than three”… especially since most other emoticons are turned the other way. It wasn’t until I asked the person who kept using it that I got it… sigh.
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Just thinking, that could be a scrotum from the back…
I don’t know why I’m still laughing at angry boobs!
wouldn’t a scrotum from the back look more like…
Ѿ
*It’s upside-down…
()))crayola)))_]> was always my favorite useless internet thing when I was 13 and used chatrooms. I do use the <3 with my bf on text messages when I want to be cutesy and lame though.
I quite like (:3=, which of course came from the Dope!
The one I didn’t get until I looked it up was XD, whcih appears a lot on YouTube. It’s supposed to be a face with a big grin, presumably with its eyes closed.
And, of course, there’s the shitty emoticon (literally) from Me and You and Everyone We Know, depicting an endless cycle of cross-pooping: ))<>((