Here's some lovely art:



That's nice! But so crude. Let's just fix that up a little:



Much better. Oh, you don't agree?

Here's something else amazing:



Yeah, just that thing.

You see, in this new age of casual written communication, people were having trouble expressing emotional context, so they invented new punctuation marks from existing characters. They even managed to make the punctuation marks resemble the physical manifestations of emotions so that their meanings would be implicitly obvious. There are many others.

I find that amazing. If any postmodern artist from the past saw that, they would fucking freak. Humans are awesome <3 <3 <3

However, when my email program finds one of these things, it shows this instead:



My email program does this because it is tasteless and simple minded. I really am embarassed to be seen with it.

If you make an email program, or any of the other things that normally do this, don't do this. You don't replace the word "be" with a picture of a bee. You don't make the word "jump" actually jump around the screen. So don't do this either. Don't fuck with language.