;-;

[Giver]

I've never actually thought about what I saw this to be, but now that I look at it I kind of see
an.......ant. Hear me out here. Alright so in this ";-;" face those little comma things remind of those pointy things on an the ants head or maybe like there little claws or something like that. Honestly I don't even know how I thought about this, but heres some visual reference pictures for you guys.

See. They've got those things. Ya feel. I still associate that face with being sad though, but just since I was forced to think about it, I guess my mind decided to go a bit crazy since I was bored.

Weird times with Eden has been concluded

oh my god Eden...

 

[Mistress_Panda]

;_;
Its obvious. The periods are the eyes. The comma's are the tears. And the underscore is the face

 

[ThatTyle]

I usually think it means that something bad or sad has happened.

 

[SnoopSean]

Looking at this thread, it seems that there can be multiple reasons.

For one, this ;-; sign is a bit more convenient to us than going to the faces icon so that's why this is used more.

Another, it seems that emoticons in general have multiple reasons. For some (Ceroria ) it's a sign of face palming, to others, it's just what they see, a sad face. To some, it means something more than that, something bad happened?

This, this thread, is a perfect example to why emoticons in general are so popular. Not only can they convey emotions and ideas and even events through text, a lifeless object, they show who we are, what our opinions are, how we think. It might be a very small thing, but even the smallest piece of text can have the greatest meaning. It all depends now, on how you use it, what you think it means.