Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26521006-20160120024457/@comment-5498154-20160130010643

Silentgrace7 wrote: Meanwhile, at least on Hard Mode, the genocide encounters was changed from a smiley face to an exclaimation mark (I won't be able to check an actual route for another few weeks, since my friend will be playing on my computer and I want her to actually be able to choose her name). Such a darned shame. The smiley face was a nice, creepy motif.

The smiley face only appears after you've genocided through Snowdin and entered Waterfall.