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This is AMENO.
In 1996, Era released their eponymous debut album, which included the song “Ameno”.
In early 2014, the song was popularized on Twitch by streamer Noxious, who would repeatedly play the song during while playing the game Hearthstone, with the viewers spamming the emoticon “༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つAMENO༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ”.
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On May 6th, 2014, the /r/Ameno[1] subreddit was launched. On May 8th, engineer Adam Bronte published a post on his personal blog Brontesaurus, which listed the Ameno emoticon as the 48th “most shared message” on Twitch.
On May 19th, Redditor jumpinjahosafa submitted a post to the /r/OutOfTheLoop[4] subreddit asking about the “Ameno” spam on Twitch.
On July 18th, the SeriousGaming Twitch channel posted a video of streamer Chair Vic singing “Ameno.”
On July 29th, YouTuber greennin uploaded a mashup of “Ameno” with the song “Sandstorm” by Darude.
On March 9th, 2015, SoundCloud user DankMemes420Boner posted a Thomas the Tank Engine remix featuring “Ameno” (
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