Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaoani

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I cannot find any significant coverage on this topic anywhere online. I can only find ancient blog posts with some example kaoani gifs. I think it'd be most appropriate to either delete this article entirely or merge to something like Kaomoji or Emoji. 21stcenturycoelacanth (talk) 22:02, 3 August 2026 (UTC) reply

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Comics and animation, Internet, and Japan. Spiderone ^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:28, 3 August 2026 (UTC) reply

• This article on JSTOR briefly references kaoani as an influence on/predecessor to subsequent Web 2.0 emoticons and emojis (or at least that's what I'm discerning through autotranslate). I'll see if I can find additional sources. Morgan695 (talk) 23:18, 3 August 2026 (UTC) reply