This October marks the 10th anniversary of the poop meme. The poop emoji originated in Japan. But it wasn’t until 2008, when it first hit the public eye as a Gmail emoji, that it became part of the Unicode 6.0 family in 2010.

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It started out as a freshly baked piece of shit with a few flies buzzing around it. My mom, it’s disgusting. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this image from Android 5.0.) It’s hard to believe how popular it is today. 🙈 🙈 🙈

Emojipedia describes the poop emoji this way. (Emojipedia is an Emojipedia search engine, available here at https://emojipedia.org/)

A piece of poop shaped like an ice cream cone. In most versions, it is brown and has a friendly smile.


inspiration

The poop meme was inspired by the 1980s Japanese manga series Dr.Slump. Do you miss Dragon Ball? Haha, also created by this comic book writer. The introduction of Dr.Slump is here.


Time background

When Japan’s three major telecom carriers — KDDI AU, SoftBank and NTT-Docomo — first introduced emoji in 1999, they were small ICONS for text messages and emails.

These emojis have gradually become part of Japanese culture. Naturally, Google wants to inject emoji culture into its new Gmail product as it seeks to expand its presence in Japan and Asia.


controversy

The creators of poop memes are all from Google. Their industry background includes software engineer, regional product manager, test engineer, international promotion expert.

The creative team agreed that poop memes would have to be included in the first version of Gmail.

But others at Google headquarters found the emoji offensive, and some even thought it would ruin the entire user experience.


Globalization promotion

Finally, after strong persuasion by the creative team, the poop emoji proposal was adopted.

In 2008, Google posted a blog post about emojis titled, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” In a blog post, they described the poop emoji as follows:

When the bad news smells really bad, 💩 transcends all words.

The address of this blog post

Keep up with the pace of

  • A month later, Apple added emojis to its products.
  • Two years later, in 2010, the Unicode Consortium officially approved it. This means emojis have been accepted across the industry as a real language. (The Unicode Consortium is the non-profit body that sets the Unicode standard.)
  • In 2015, for the first time, Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the Year was an emoji:

    The 😂 emoji is competing with words like “AD blocker” and “refugee.”

  • In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) also used the emoji 💩 in its “WorldToiletDay” campaign.
  • According to a survey by Emojitracker, 💩 is the 116th most used emoji on Twitter.

Today, emojis have become a part of our daily lives. It can be seen on every major social platform.

And last but not least, say out loud:

💩, happy birthday!


Special note, this is a compilation of the 10th Anniversary of the 💩 poop Emoji.

The original link: https://hackernoon.com/10th-anniversary-of-the-poop-emoji-aab16fcb5b08 the original author: Andreas Sandre image: Giphy