Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9300845-20141212005016/@comment-7891699-20141213211026

InvaderrrZIM wrote: 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. Kids who are too young to have accounts here still look things up on the wiki all the time without editing or creating accounts. I would know. I used to do it before I was 13 and so do a few other kids I know. Wikis are mainly for people to learn infornmation and most of the people who use the wiki are people who learn from it, not people who contirbute to it. Point being, even if that picture won't scare the kids, it's still completely stupid and meaningless. I don't even know why half these emoticons exist. I'm looking through them and just laughing my head off at how ridiculous and stupid they are and wonder why anyone would ever need to use them for anything.