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I'm trying to find the origin of the XD emoticon for... some... reason?? I don't know why actually.

Unfortunately most people in old forums I'm reading from are estimating, from what appear to be really foggy memories. Seeing around 2001-ish from a lot of people (which is around when I started using it, going by my own foggy memories) but plenty of people guessing it started around '97 with South Park doing similar faces in it. No idea if that is true though.

I'm also assuming this is like, potentially lost knowledge, especially if it was started on AOL (pain. because all the old boards from there are gone.)