Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9300845-20141212005016/@comment-4060139-20141213043232

I'm not really sure what removing them will accomplish (a cleaner page, maybe?) but if no one's using 'em, then I guess we can remove them.

Boyariffic wrote: Octagon Dinosaur, don't you think it's possible that kids who are like 8 years old or younger watch The Amazing World of Gumball considering the fact that it's a kid show and that they'll be scared by that image? Those guys aren't allowed to make accounts and thus cannot go on chat to witness those emoticons. They might stumble upon it through browsing the wiki (which is very unlikely - they'd have to be digging pretty hard to find it), but it's nothing that we can get in trouble for, so long as it isn't excessively gory/obscene. Regarding when those emoticons may show up in conversation...I can't say, as I've never seen them used myself. But anything goes on chat, so random stuff like that could conceivably come up.