Cultural appropriation no longer a thing I guess. Two years of high school Japanese AMA lol. 

> The character ツ is a katakana symbol in the Japanese writing system. It represents the syllable “tsu” in Japanese.

> ツ (chiefly in the West) An emoticon representing a smiling face.

Cultural appropriation no longer a thing I guess. Two years of high school Japanese AMA lol. 

> The character ツ is a katakana symbol in the Japanese writing system. It represents the syllable “tsu” in Japanese.

> ツ (chiefly in the West) An emoticon representing a smiling face.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%84