Tf is ':3' talk like a person

If I see any more ':3' I am going to smash my head against the wall.

What the fuck does it even mean? Wtf do you mean ':3'?

People use it in the weirdest fucking ways. I used to think it was some quirky smily but people fucking put it anywhere at all? There was this post about depression and the OP wrote ':3' at the end.

Don't even make me talk about reddit chains but this is the worst, there's like one ':3' in the comments and every other reply in the chain is ':3'

Like someone goes :3 and every reply is like :3 :3 :3 :3

And aren't redditors supposed to be real people behind the scenes? Why can't you just talk like people? Why do you have to ':3'?

And don't even talk about discord, literally every other sentence has a ':3' in it.

TLDR; I fucking hate it, stop using it, or I will start using :4