At first glance, the colon-three emoticon appears innocuous and quaint - a simple cat-like smile. However, beneath its facile form lies multilayered semiotic significance and implications of textual play. The asymmetry between its innocent visage and the hints of deeper meaning evokes theorists of postmodern irony. Upon transmission, ":3" enters dialogic relations that imbue it with contextual valence beyond its basic denotation.
It signifies through apophasis - expressing more through what is not directly referenced or stated. The smirk underscores an ambivalence between genuineness and jest that reflects the problematics of virtual communication analyzed by Landow or Turkle. Whether intended sincerely or in jest, the sender relinquishes a measure of interpretive control to the receiver. Thus ":3" emerges as a Derridean trace - always deferred and differing according to the positions and preunderstandings that interlocutors bring.
The ":3" holds the ambivalent potential for cheeky subversion and sly subtweeting, all while maintaining an outward appearance of childish naivety. When others see you sending ":3" they know you are thinking on a higher level and reading between the lines. It is the emoji for the woke and aware.
It signifies through apophasis - expressing more through what is not directly referenced or stated. The smirk underscores an ambivalence between genuineness and jest that reflects the problematics of virtual communication analyzed by Landow or Turkle. Whether intended sincerely or in jest, the sender relinquishes a measure of interpretive control to the receiver. Thus ":3" emerges as a Derridean trace - always deferred and differing according to the positions and preunderstandings that interlocutors bring.
The ":3" holds the ambivalent potential for cheeky subversion and sly subtweeting, all while maintaining an outward appearance of childish naivety. When others see you sending ":3" they know you are thinking on a higher level and reading between the lines. It is the emoji for the woke and aware.
User 1: Hey, want to go catch that new movie this weekend?
User 2: I'd love to! :3
User 1: Sounds good, I'll get the tickets. Let me know what time works best for you.
User 2: Can't wait! :3
User 2: I'd love to! :3
User 1: Sounds good, I'll get the tickets. Let me know what time works best for you.
User 2: Can't wait! :3
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian December 4, 2023
Get the :3mug. Kat<3 is someone who will show love unconditionally as you change through life. As they have beautiful blue eyes and stunning black hair that waves in the wind you will be caught in the lovely look in their eye as they pass by. Kat<3 is a person that will be there for you in your hardest times and will help you whenever it is possible for them to do so. No matter what, they will always care for you.
by Cloud<3 April 19, 2022
Get the Kat<3mug. Person: is there anything happening on December 3?
Another person: ITS CONAN GRAY DAY WEAR YOUR SWEATER
Another person: ITS CONAN GRAY DAY WEAR YOUR SWEATER
by LemiLion November 9, 2022
Get the December 3mug. :3
Human :/
Human :/
by DontMessWithTheDerp March 31, 2020
Get the :3mug. 
A rapper with 3 letters at the beginning of their name like NBA Youngboy and YNW Melly. These rappers are usually garbage at rapping and have no talent and only make a lot of money because the people who listen to them have a very bad taste in music
“That talentless 3 Letter Acronym Rapper YNW Melly makes me want to rip my ears off of my head when I hear his music”
by spoderman320 June 23, 2023
Get the 3 Letter Acronym Rappermug. lexi<3 and meliodas are meant to be. meliodas would drop Elizabeth in a heartbeat for Lexi. The only reason meliodas is still with Elizabeth, is because he can’t find Lexi<3 where he is currently living. he only loves her and nobody else, he is faking his love for Elizabeth. he would kill anybody who gets in his way of him being with Lexi <3.
by bobbie is inosukes May 30, 2021
Get the lexi<3mug.