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    You may be the first person to type that out, and I love it. Good callout - we wanted to just have a nod to it here but the deep dive is on the blog because we have more features around the animation examples stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/10/vote-on-our-new-identity Commented Jul 10, 2025 at 15:05
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    @DavidLongworth Yes, "(•} . {•)" would be more clear that it was two people collaborating, rather than "{¨}", two people facing away from each other. Commented Jul 13, 2025 at 9:12
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    Lol, that's supposed to be two people collaborating? I though it's a face and the two dots are eyes, like a slightly postmodern smiley, and I liked that interpretation way more. Also @DavidLongworth if that's the case then the motif itself is a bad choice for SO+SE. Even in the best case scenario for a great question and answer(s), that's teaching / knowledge sharing - calling that "collaboration" is a huge stretch. The only collaboration that happens with the usual (aka trash) new post is that quality-minded users collaborate to downvote and close the trash question to clean up the site. Commented Jul 14, 2025 at 8:27
  • {¨} is clearly some strange ASCII art smiley of a dude looking back at you with a blank, confused expression. Or maybe ASCII art of someone who cut two holes in a white blanket for a last minute Halloween ghost costume...? Commented Aug 11, 2025 at 13:46