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17 January 2010 Yeah, Let’s Pay For A Sarcasm Emoticon

Posted at 22:22h in blogging, emoticon, micro transactions, sarcasm, sarcmark by Zac Martin 5 Comments

So someone, somewhere, somehow had a brilliant idea. That sentence, unlike the title of this post, was not sarcastic. The idea was to introduce a mainstream emoticon for the emotion of sarcasm. It's call the SarcMark and it looks like this...

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