Animoticon

emoticons styled to resemble the super-deformed expressions of characters in Japanese animation*.

*better known as Anime to their fans.

I'm so happy ^___^;

I'm so sad .___.

I'm tired as f*ck x___x

"that guy's gotta be one of those animu freaks..."

"why do you say that?"

"he uses those animoticons in chat.."

"yeah..so...?"

"well I'm a jerk and a self-loathing closet geek of different stuff so I have to point that out."

"gotcha."