

You’ll find it on plenty of internet memes across the years. It became the most common text-based emotion across various social media websites and internet communities. While emoticons started getting phased out in the 2010s, XD stayed on and was adopted by the internet meme community. The first definition for this expression on Urban Dictionary was written in March of 2003 and describes it as a “laughing face.” Eventually, it grew to widespread prominence during the age of IM, where it was one of the most common text emoticons alongside “:)” and “^_^.” While this emoticon doesn’t have an exact origin story, it likely originated in the 1990s and early 2000s in IRC chatrooms and text-based message boards. RELATED: How to Use Emoji on Your Smartphone or PC The History of XD

There’s a program in the Adobe Suite called “ Adobe Xd” that lets you design user interfaces, so you should also avoid confusing it with that.

You should take note that XD is only written in uppercase because it does not make the same face in lowercase.
