One of my favourite things about the web are ASCII smileys. They're sweet, fun and simply make the web a better place. How could anyone not like them ¯_(ツ)_/¯? This talk is an overdose of smileys, because they're the perfect excuse to get started with Polymer. Polymer is a library built on top of the Web Components standards that helps developers create reusable components for the modern web. And since I know that everybody has been wondering how one could take over the world by creating a suite of Polymer animated emoticon components, we're going to do exactly that.