We text all the time and love get 'creative' with the emoticons.
Text message from daughter: "Dad you'll love this: Hold your finger on the camera button until you see icons above-slide your finger up, and you'll get a whole new set of emoticons".
So I do that, see no emoticons, as I'm taking a silly selfie video, of my perplexed mug, and that vid gets sent(I did it 3 times in fact) to the April Fool joker at the other end-who at that point- is on the ground laughing....