Retsy Series 1 · Card 0804 · 00-MEM
Tilt your head. Feel the feels.
When every message ended with a sideways face made of colons, dashes and parentheses, and you tilted to read it.
The story · 2002
Before tiny pictures did the job, feelings were built from punctuation. A colon and a parenthesis meant happy. Add a semicolon and it was a wink. Kids invented elaborate faces with hats, noses and bowties, and spent study hall drafting a sideways cat that took up an entire line.
Some people insisted on the version with a nose dash, others refused, and the debate was never settled.
Six finishes
Sideways Smile Era comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
00-MEM
Sideways Smile Era is one of 32 cards in the 00s Memes & Fads set. Here are the other 31.
