Is it only people in the emoji era who think that the Smiths logo looks like "owl eyes", or did the people in the 60s and earlier also think that? I'm just wondering that culturally was it always a thing, or is it just in the modern era and our habit of creating smileys and communicating using keyboard symbols etc. that leads us to see things in the logo, but people in the 60s were more innocent?

In the modern era, marketing companies charge millions to create a logo, company color scheme etc. and I'm wondering whether early Smiths logo creators were just innocent and didn't realize what it looked like, or was it an inside joke and they knew all along?