xD Same here! I use them often still, long hardcoded into me at this point.

Little x capital D is the way. Thank you for keeping the old tongue alive ^-^ I get annoyed when texts/sites autocorrect my :] into an emoji. I purposefully started using brackets to avoid it happening T_T

I was never much of an emoticon user even back in the day but I still frequently drop the xD and actually I'm known for my shifty eyes. >_> <_< It's nice that there are a few of us still out there...

<_< >_> <( "<) (^ " ^) (>" )>