It has been 12 years since 2-channel serves Japanese net users. The gigantic anonymous bulletin boards are still kept simple without image/movie, all you type is texts.
You may post URL of images there, and many 2-channel viewer clients, which many users are now using, extracted to display in the posts for convenience. But still, many prefer to use so-called Ascii Art, drawing composed by letters and symbols.
There are a lot of Ascii Art dictionary sites (example [J]) and assisting tools. 2-channel users copy and paste an Ascii Art which shows their emotion.
On a certain thread on 2-channel, users tried to make an animated gif version of well-known Ascii Arts.
Here, the Japanese letters “Ban-ban-ban” in background means a sound you bash not PC.
ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝ
ﾊﾞﾝ ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾞﾝ ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝ
ﾊﾞﾝ（∩`･ω･） ﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾊﾞﾝﾞﾝ
＿/_ﾐつ/￣￣￣/
＼/＿＿＿/￣
Wake-waka-ran = I am in complete confusion.
ワケ ワカ ラン♪
∧＿∧ ∧＿∧ ∧＿∧
（ ・∀・） （ ・∀・） （ ・∀・）
⊂ ⊂ ） （ Ｕ つ ⊂__へ つ
< < < ） ） ） （＿）| （＿（＿） （_＿）＿） 彡（_＿）
whew… uh.. yeah… I am really excited!
∩＿＿＿∩三 ー＿ ∩＿＿＿∩
|ノ 三-二 ー二三 ノ ヽ
/ (ﾟ) (ﾟ)三二- ￣ – 三 (ﾟ) (ﾟ) |
| ( _●_) ミ三二 – ー二三 ( _●_) ミ ウオーオォーアッヒャアウオホーオオオ
彡､ |∪| ､｀￣￣三- 三 彡､ |∪| ミ テンション上がってきた！！
/ ＿＿ ヽノ Y￣) 三 三 (/’ ヽノ＿ | テンション上がってきた！！
(＿＿＿） _ノ ヽ/ (＿＿＿）
These animation show well how Japanese are seeing action in few texts drawings.
There are more on a 2-channel summary site Kinisoku [J].
