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in all seriousness, it’s likely because the origin of the emoticon is tied in with the ASCII character set, and the codes available when the emoticon was conceived. emoticons were around for decades, before we started using them on phones.
in fact, “smilies” are indeed not German!!!
ï
With the power of unicode you can add eyes to any letter:
ẅ s̈ M̈ _̈
=̈ ~̈ ×̈ +̈
SMH she’s never been on feddit.org/c/ich_iel.
Germans enjoy humour, but smiling isn’t as efficient as laughing on the inside.
