The ubiquitous emoticon, or smiley, turned 25 this year. As you may recall, Yahoo! held a
contest to comemorate this anniversary, inviting everyone to send in a photo of themselves composing a "new" emoticon with their own face. The winners would be immortalized as brand-new emoticons in Yahoo! Messenger.
Well, the winning entries have been announced! There are six new emoticons in Yahoo! Messenger, all submitted by users, and here they are:
:-bd Two thumbs up!
^#(^ It wasn't me!
:!! Hurry up!
\m/ Rock on!
:-q Thumbs down!
X_X Don't want to see!
:bz Bee!
All six of the new emoticons are available in the new
Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta. Congratulations to each of the winners! If you'd like to see what they look like in real life, read Sarah Bacon's
post over on the Yahoo! Messenger Blog.