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I keep seeing this emoji and I'm still not quite sure what it means.
It's Kelly. He's a political(?) cartoonist for the online newspaper theonion.com . The Onion is satire, as is Kelly. Here are his cartoons.
https://www.theonion.com/opinion/cartoons
Is also from there.
Edit: He does snide asides as his cartoon avatar, often with wordplay. That's usually what people are invoking when using this emote.
Oh fuck. I never actually realized he was an Onion writer. I thought he was just some weird right-wing comic artist we latched on to ironically. I am a fool!
So basically it means acknowledging a pun?
it's "thanks, Dad" but more positive
Stan Kelly, the political cartoonist persona/pseudonym of Ward Sutton.