hey bill i have an extremely serious problem i am struggling to solve

how do you put smiley faces in parentheses because if you do it like (blah blah blah :) ) it looks weird but (blah blah blah :) is even weirder please help bill this is urgent
you have 2 choices-- use real emojis, and risk that it might not be available on the recipient's device, or do it the way you did in your first example, which i think is actually ok.