who knew skype has secret emoticons

[noight]

just found out myself that skype has hidden skype emoticons. they're not visible anywhere in the skype program, which begs me to question, how does anyone ever find them? but the point, here's some of the secret skype emoticons. just spreading the word for any skype users out there who don't know about them.

here's a picture with most of them, below the smiley face is the "shortcode" you type to use the smiley. enjoy! there's also plenty more, which can be found on this page

[b00p]

ive never seen these skype emoticons before. thanks for the share noight

[shaithis]

Yeah, I think they've had them for a number of months at least, although I have been staying away from it lately due to not wanting to support a program that has intentional backdoors built it.

[tates11]

Wow, I've never seen these before, who knew... lol o.o

[noight]

Wow, I've never seen these before, who knew... lol o.o

skype also had emoticons based off of the captain america 2 movie which were pretty tight, but they removed the skype smileys in the newest skype version sadly.

skype really has some awesome animators working for 'em.

[fuddam]

Skype has had secret emoticons for prob close to 10 years, if not more. Poolparty, swear etc

also has flags. something like (flag:UK) to get one

[jag272]

Theres also the secret skype cat for holding down three keys at once, it only shows briefly though and only to you I believe.

[Ezekeal]

Thanks for this! highly useful as I use skype alot, why are they hiding it?

[Tropheus]

Never use them...."SAD"

Wonder what else they are hiding......

[Ttaskmaster]

A while back I read they had to remove a load of obscene ones, or something...

[iamlorro]

another few reasons never to use "(" and ")" when typing!

I dont mind a few or ...but can't really see the use for a skype logo in a skype chat...

[UKIkarus]

There was also the old (finger) emote which showed an irate smiley flipping off the user had a few laughs with that one.

[brandonkeithar3]

cool, its great

[big_hairy_rob]

Microsoft Messenger used to have secret emotions. Skype is now owned by Microsift, hence I'm not really surprised.

[UKIkarus]

I'm just so glad that they don't let you add your own emotes without an add-on, the amount of stupid emotes that would merge between text on MSN Messenger was horrendous, I always had to turn off the emoticons entirely.

[dannyheath]

Thanks I never see them before but I remember MSN use to have secret emotions.