# When did this rolleyes abomination happen? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 27, 2014, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767 "2014-06-27T09:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/21 "2014-06-27T20:37:42Z")
OK, the animated roll eyes is only in Chrome. IE still has the Smurf-sucking-an-Altoid rolleyes. I checked Chrome plug-ins, nothing smilie-related there. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/22 "2014-06-28T02:36:46Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I still don’t understand why they won’t change them back to the old ones . Because it’s “Hip” and “Edgy”. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/23 "2014-06-28T06:44:04Z")
I use chrome all the time. No animation. Your computer is haunted! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/24 "2014-06-28T08:34:54Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There were never threats of legal action, if that’s any help. …and of _all_ the times to lack a “flippantly snapping fingers with pursed lips and a shoulder shimmey” smiley! Mmmm-hmmm. And, back on the topic at hand, **bigT** had a post in the original thread [with instructions on installing a GreaseMonkey script that replaces the new smileys with the classic ones.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17185529&postcount=242) Installing it was actually quite painless, on Firefox. (The Modding Community: Compensating for developer incompetence, indifference, or cessation of existence since 19xx. [Year to be added in post mod 0.98a]) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/25 "2014-06-28T09:07:00Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > And, back on the topic at hand, **bigT** had a post in the original thread [with instructions on installing a GreaseMonkey script that replaces the new smileys with the classic ones.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17185529&postcount=242) Installing it was actually quite painless, on Firefox. I’ve gotten PMs since then with people having problems getting the script itself, the last link in the above post. I’ve found a mirror [here](http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/410188), where you can download it instead. I’m going to post it in the other thread, too, but I wanted to have it mentioned here for people who follow the link but don’t read the whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/26 "2014-06-28T09:56:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Impressive, if a bit narrow on my screen. Are you guys using C64s? It takes extra work to fix it, since the “pixels” aren’t square. But, here you go: █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/27 "2014-06-28T10:48:37Z")
Sorry that there’s a pixel that’s off on the mouth, but I couldn’t fix it in time, and I don’t want to spam the thread with images. Just manually change the “pixel” to the right of the upper right corner of the mouth using the WYSIWYG editor mode (the button in the upper right of the quote box). I’ve played around with making it smaller, as well. I’ve gotten a version down to 18 characters wide (without black border), and one down to 20 characters wide (with the black border). But, again, I don’t want to spam the thread. Maybe I’ll use 'em some time, or you can PM me if you really, really want them. I also can edit the script to just make :dubious: and :smack: fit in better with the new pastel icons. Yes, I’m a nerd, and I was bored. My Internet connection is being screwy lately. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/28 "2014-06-28T21:00:30Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > This. I still don’t understand why they won’t change them back to the old ones – it literally takes like thirty seconds. It is Rule 3 of Web Design: Always make web pages worse: Make them uglier, less functional and with more irritating ads to encourage people to install adblockers. Going back is never an option. Bonus points if you make every single bookmark anyone has for anything other than the homepage go 404. ---
**Author:** ![Friend\_of\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Friend\_of\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Friend_of_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/29 "2014-06-28T21:23:32Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > It is Rule 3 of Web Design: Always make web pages worse: Make them uglier, less functional and with more irritating ads to encourage people to install adblockers. Going back is never an option. Bonus points if you make every single bookmark anyone has for anything other than the homepage go 404. You work for FaceBook, don’tcha. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/30 "2014-06-28T21:30:05Z")
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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/31 "2014-06-28T23:46:17Z")
All of the new emoticons are just terrible, but the roll eyes one is simply unbearable. Every time someone uses it, a little bit of humanity dies. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/32 "2014-06-29T00:21:59Z")
**njtt** , hit “quote” before doing the copy-and-paste. You need to copy the color codes, not just the characters. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/33 "2014-06-29T03:05:40Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > It is Rule 3 of Web Design: Always make web pages worse: Make them uglier, less functional and with more irritating ads to encourage people to install adblockers. Going back is never an option. Bonus points if you make every single bookmark anyone has for anything other than the homepage go 404. This, fersure. (What are rules 1 and 2?) I don’t know about Facebook getting worse and worse (since I never use it) other than the galaxy-shaking shitstorms I read about every time they tweak it – but the same is true for that major web mail service that begins with the letter Y, which I’ve largely abandoned using. I don’t hear a lot of complaining about them any more, apparently because so many people have just given up on it. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/34 "2014-06-29T08:52:32Z")
> [@bigt](#): > > it takes extra work to fix it, since the “pixels” aren’t square. But, here you go: █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ Love it!!! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/35 "2014-06-29T13:42:56Z")
I like our old roll eyes picture, but it’s huge though? I had the bright idea to reduce it to a smaller size, but it’s already set to size 1. I can’t have a fauxmoticon that is 10x the height of my post. Is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/36 "2014-06-29T13:53:32Z")
█████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ That’s awesome **BigT** ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/37 "2014-06-29T13:56:18Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > > Copy and paste of BigT’s “image”. > > So where did I go wrong? Hit quote on **BigT** ’s post then C&P. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/38 "2014-06-29T14:27:02Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > > \< snip . . . \> > > █████████████████████████ > █████████████████████████ > > Copy and paste of BigT’s “image”. > > So where did I go wrong? Let’s all just use **njtt** ’s version; it’s an improvement over the new rolleyes. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/39 "2014-06-29T14:38:44Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Because it’s “Hip” and “Edgy”. Well, these smilies are pretty new. The OP probably hasn’t seen them before. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767/40 "2014-06-29T17:02:59Z")
Well, since there are a bunch of other images, I guess I’ll go ahead and post my “fixed” version. (Good idea using a smaller font, **drewtwo99**.) Here’s the full version: █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ █████████████████████████ And here’s a slightly smaller version: ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ ████████████████████ I think the little guy looks even meaner, making the original look a bit whimsier. And, yes, I had to hand tune those pixels. There’s no simple way to widen or shrink pixel images while not making it blurry. You can use [this site](http://evilworlds.ru/ascii_art/) to make your own images, but, if you want them square, you’ll have to widen the image by a factor of 5/3 yourself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-this-rolleyes-abomination-happen/691767.md?page=3)