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Poop emoji
Pile of Poo (U+1F4A9 💩 PILE OF POO), also known as the poop emoji or poo emoji, is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, which is usually depicted with cartoon eyes and a large smile. The emoji is used to convey humor and disapproval in the West and good luck in Japan.
The poop emoji originated in Japan, where feces had become associated with humor after an anthropomorphized poop featured in Dr. Slump, a popular manga. Created in 1997 by Shigetaka Kurita for phones sold by J-Phone, the emoji became associated with luck when a golden poo good luck charm named Kin no Unko was invented. Google created a version in 2007 in an effort to expand their Asian market, becoming popular outside Asia thereafter. After an influential redesign by Apple, it became increasingly depicted as cute. A poop emoji was added to Unicode in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and to Unicode's official emoji documentation in 2015.
Outside of texting, the emoji has been depicted in several contexts, including merchandise, as décor, and as a character in the 2017 animated film The Emoji Movie. As of 2021, the poop emoji was among the top 100 most used emojis, an increase since 2019.
Multiple reasons have been put forth to explain the poop emoji's popularity. Several explanations emphasize the contrast of the disgust and happiness it evokes. Other explanations include a popular fascination with the design's swirl, beliefs that the emoji is charming, being a way people can engage with the act of defecation, and for the way its use comments on the nature of modern media consumption.
The poop emoji originated in Japanese digital communication. Feces had first taken on humorous connotations in broader Japanese popular culture in the early 1980s, after an anthropomorphized poop famously appeared in the manga Dr. Slump. These connotations were furthered when the character appeared in the internationally successful series Dragon Ball, prompting the creation of an array of merchandise depicting the poop.
An early design of the modern poop emoji was seen in 1982, among the Sharp MZ-80K computer's internal set of typeable symbols. In 1997, the first popular emoji set appeared on phones sold by J-Phone. It was created by Shigetaka Kurita, an employee of the Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo. The poop emoji was black-and-white, with a smile, and steam lines for comic effect. Other Japanese telecom companies had their own versions of the emoji, some with more grotesque designs.
When a company in Kyoto began selling golden poop-shaped good luck charms at the turn of the century, poop began being considered lucky in Japan. These products, named Kin no Unko (literally "golden poo"), were a pun based on the word for poo sounding like the word for luck. The subject was considered a popular, humorous, positive object for children, without Western stigmas attached.
In 2007, Google, looking to expand its presence in Japan and Asia as a whole, created their first emojis for Gmail, which included a poop emoji. Though it was initially met with internal resistance, the poop emoji was added following usage data; a direct appeal to the manager of Gmail by Google's Japanese product manager convinced the team of the emoji's importance and popularity in Japanese internet culture. Gmail's poop emoji was designed by Google Doodle artists who sought to put a "Google spin" on the emoji. They drew inspiration from existing emoji designs as well as the character Poop-Boy from the Dr. Slump manga, and constrained themselves to 15×15 pixels and the colors used in the Google logo. Their final design was faceless, and included animated flies circling above.
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Poop emoji
Pile of Poo (U+1F4A9 💩 PILE OF POO), also known as the poop emoji or poo emoji, is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, which is usually depicted with cartoon eyes and a large smile. The emoji is used to convey humor and disapproval in the West and good luck in Japan.
The poop emoji originated in Japan, where feces had become associated with humor after an anthropomorphized poop featured in Dr. Slump, a popular manga. Created in 1997 by Shigetaka Kurita for phones sold by J-Phone, the emoji became associated with luck when a golden poo good luck charm named Kin no Unko was invented. Google created a version in 2007 in an effort to expand their Asian market, becoming popular outside Asia thereafter. After an influential redesign by Apple, it became increasingly depicted as cute. A poop emoji was added to Unicode in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and to Unicode's official emoji documentation in 2015.
Outside of texting, the emoji has been depicted in several contexts, including merchandise, as décor, and as a character in the 2017 animated film The Emoji Movie. As of 2021, the poop emoji was among the top 100 most used emojis, an increase since 2019.
Multiple reasons have been put forth to explain the poop emoji's popularity. Several explanations emphasize the contrast of the disgust and happiness it evokes. Other explanations include a popular fascination with the design's swirl, beliefs that the emoji is charming, being a way people can engage with the act of defecation, and for the way its use comments on the nature of modern media consumption.
The poop emoji originated in Japanese digital communication. Feces had first taken on humorous connotations in broader Japanese popular culture in the early 1980s, after an anthropomorphized poop famously appeared in the manga Dr. Slump. These connotations were furthered when the character appeared in the internationally successful series Dragon Ball, prompting the creation of an array of merchandise depicting the poop.
An early design of the modern poop emoji was seen in 1982, among the Sharp MZ-80K computer's internal set of typeable symbols. In 1997, the first popular emoji set appeared on phones sold by J-Phone. It was created by Shigetaka Kurita, an employee of the Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo. The poop emoji was black-and-white, with a smile, and steam lines for comic effect. Other Japanese telecom companies had their own versions of the emoji, some with more grotesque designs.
When a company in Kyoto began selling golden poop-shaped good luck charms at the turn of the century, poop began being considered lucky in Japan. These products, named Kin no Unko (literally "golden poo"), were a pun based on the word for poo sounding like the word for luck. The subject was considered a popular, humorous, positive object for children, without Western stigmas attached.
In 2007, Google, looking to expand its presence in Japan and Asia as a whole, created their first emojis for Gmail, which included a poop emoji. Though it was initially met with internal resistance, the poop emoji was added following usage data; a direct appeal to the manager of Gmail by Google's Japanese product manager convinced the team of the emoji's importance and popularity in Japanese internet culture. Gmail's poop emoji was designed by Google Doodle artists who sought to put a "Google spin" on the emoji. They drew inspiration from existing emoji designs as well as the character Poop-Boy from the Dr. Slump manga, and constrained themselves to 15×15 pixels and the colors used in the Google logo. Their final design was faceless, and included animated flies circling above.
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