User blog comment:Drew1200/Emoticon Creating Contest Continued!/@comment-1693968-20130820172848

Just so you all know, we do not plan to remove all the old emotes. We just plan to make the new ones default. The old ones will still be there, and you'll be free to use them. The main reason I want to change the chat emotes is because they're inconsistent with the non-chat emotes. It wouldn't be as bad if we were still using the old emotes on blogs and stuff, but we're not. I may be wrong, but I really feel as if it gives an inconsistent feel to the wiki. You use one set of emotes in one place, and a different at another place. I'm totally fine with keeping the old ones, I just think it's time we encourage the use of the new ones.