This only started happening today and I despise it with every atom of hate stored in my body. Can't find a workaround. LET ME USE A REGULAR SMILEY FACE YOU HEATHENS : )
yes, the Aa. does it do it when when you’re using that? check your MS Edge options and see if it is automatically rendering the short cuts for emojis. this doesn’t happen on Chrome.
if you google it, i’m pretty sure this is a microsoft thing. not a reddit thing. it doesn’t seem like they care enough to support a way to disable the automatic conversion.
This is a reddit thing, I checked on other apps and just tried typing ":P" and it never auto filled it to "😛"
but every single time I try to type ":P" it auto corrects to "😛" only ON reddit. This must be some new "feature" they introduced. I can't find any settings for it though
This is some new stupid feature the reddit developers shadow dropped. I can't find a single option to turn this off. So bandaid solution: use markdown mode, like so :P
To anyone claiming this is the OP's browser issue, let me tell you that it's not that. It's only been happening in Reddit and it's only been happening since today. I hope it gets solved soon (Happening to me across all my browsers in both Win and Mac).
Definitely a reddit issue, never had this problem before right now, I just want my cute little guys back! (i would put a sad face here if it would let me)
I was trying to write :) and just noticed it today too. I would also like a switch to toggle it off :(
At least switching to markdown works...! kind of...
They don't even need to go that far. Most WYSIWYG let you "cancel" the emoji in some ways, like pressing CTRL+Z or something. I really don't see why they implemented it in this way, it's not a new feature, this has been around for litteraly decades and no other website has this issue.
found this post hoping someone had a solution. so frustrating, i don't want to have to space out all my emojis :'). my teardrop is the only one that works anymore!
its already annoying me in teams and word and so on and out of all the places on the internet, reddit - whos community despices emojis - decided to implement that bs lmao
I'm using a Mac with Google, and it's happening to me, too. What's working for me is putting the formatting in Markdown, add an emoticon there, and either post it/switch back to Rich Text.
On PC this is almost never Reddit itself doing it.
Most common causes:
Browser extensions (Grammarly, language tools, “emoji replacers”, text expanders). Try disabling extensions one by one or open Reddit in Incognito mode to test.
Windows emoji shortcut: if you press Win + . (dot), it opens the emoji panel. Some people accidentally trigger it and click emojis without noticing.
Auto-correct / typing tools (Microsoft Editor, Grammarly, etc.) can swap words into emojis.
Quick fix: try another browser with all extensions off. If the issue disappears, you’ve found the culprit.
how tf do you accidentally press two keys that are on opposite sides of the keyboard, and click an emoji in the following menu, without noticing? No, I'm genuinely curious
can confirm its not a brower or extension issue, if i go over to youtube (or another app, youtube is just the one i have literally on my other monitor) it won't auto translate ":D" to 😃, but on reddit it does, personally just started happening to me today.
They're really lame. Feels like the MSN era, those emotes come from the past^^
They're very hard to read (to me they just looks all the same, I don't have a very good sight but I don't have that issue in Discord for exemple), I hope we will be able to disable this like in every. single. app in existence.
This just happened to me too on windows firefox. If I wanted to put an emoji Id press win+. Now I gotta figure out how to disable another useless feature again.
Dunno If there's any workaround for this, It kinda sucks because I post often in the astronomy sub and due to how designations are, I end up having to type B and sometimes those are in brackets, which autocorrect to sunglasses. It cannot be that hard to add a disable feature, unless I'm blind, but can't find one anywhere.
I had the same issue! Go to your settings and click "Preferences", set "Default to markdown editor" to On, and that fixes the problem :P :)
Then if you need the Rich Text editor for whatever reason, just switch to it after typing your emojis (The next section typed with the Rich Text editor). With Rich Text it'll automatically change the emojis I type from here, but not the ones I've already typed. 😄 😛
And you can switch back to Markdown again using the 3 dot menu in the bottom-left to "show formatting options, then clicking "Switch to Markdown". I'm back in markdown now and can type emoticons freely again :D!
Seems like you can't, but I have a solution (on PC anyway): Add a zero-width character between the characters that cause the auto-emoji. Memorize the alt code. I use the zero-width joiner (Alt+8205 on Windows, Ctrl+Shift+U,200D,Enter/Space on Linux (maybe only Ubuntu idk)).
:D <3
For anyone reading this now, you can switch to the markdown editor or copy a zero-width-space from here and put it between the emoticon (so for :) you'd put it at :\) in place of the backslash)
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u/quin61 Apr 29 '26
Suuper f*cking annoying, like there's not enough emojis in the wild (thanks AI).