User blog comment:Danielboone6702/This is not a Tongue Smiley!/@comment-3003185-20120520190409/@comment-4052371-20120520205721

Technically, the Tongue Smiley is always depicted as a picture, since what you identify to be a Tongue Smiley is always a picture of a Tongue Smiley that is displayed on your monitor. The Tongue Smiley is actually a series of 1s and 0s that your computer generates a picture from.