noun: The unpleasant surprise you get when you choose a seemingly harmless emoticon from the static image palette only to see it animate into
something tasteless after you've chosen it and sent it.
Alternate:
noun: An emoticon that looks harmless when viewed in the static image palette, but provides a
nasty surprise when you select it and send it by animating into
something tasteless.
Imagine my emoticonsternation when that smiley face I sent to my
mom turned out to be a bloody horrorshow.
I
got fired when I accidentally sent my boss an emoticonsternation.