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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's an emoticon. Emojis are these: 😜

There's an entry for emoticons, though I'm not sure I'd qualify all of them as memes. Not the kind I was thinking about, at least.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Well, they are memes in that they went viral and are now spread with slight variations. And I must note that a lot of contemporary post-irony, meta-irony, or even something further memes probably wouldn't qualify as memes either