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The emoji as it appears on Twemoji, which is used on Twitter, Discord, Roblox, the Nintendo Switch, and more

Pile of Poo (💩), also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji (American English), or poo emoji (British English), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with cartoon eyes and a large smile. Originating from Japan, it is used as an expression in various contexts. Some possible uses include: as a response of passive aggressive emotion; for comedic value; as commentary on what's bad; or as its literal meaning. The emoji is in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Unicode block: U+1F4A9 💩 PILE OF POO.

History

The 1997 pile of poo emoji.

The first emoji appeared after being sold by the J-Phone and released in 1997. J-Phone subsequently became Vodafone Japan, and is now known as SoftBank Mobile. The 1997 SoftBank features a black-and-white pile of poo emoji with a smile and steam lines for comic effect. In 2007, Google, looking to expand its presence in Japan and Asia as a whole, partnered with au by KDDI to develop emoji for Gmail, a project codenamed "Mojo". Gmail's design for the pile of poo emoji lacked a face and was circled above by animated flies. When deciding which emoji to include, Takeshi Kishimoto, Google's Japanese product manager, went directly to the manager of Gmail and convinced him that the pile of poo emoji was the "most useful" emoji. This was corroborated by a statistical analysis undertaken by Google to determine which emojis were the most popular among Japanese users. According to Google software engineer Darren Lewis, the pile of poo emoji was "way up there" in terms of popularity. Design for the emoji was left to Google Doodle artists Ryan Germick and Susie Sahim, who sought to put a "Google spin" on the existing emojis. They drew inspiration from the existing emoji designs as well as the character Poop-Boy from the Dr. Slump manga by Akira Toriyama. They limited themselves to a size of 15×15 pixels and colors used only in Google's logo. Google had decided to include the pile of poop emoji into the Gmail emoji package when it became a significant component of Japanese digital communication. The United States then absorbed that facet of Japanese culture. The first popular emoji set was created by an employee of Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo Shigetaka Kurita. Pile of poo was added to Unicode in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and to Unicode's official emoji documentation in 2015.

Every emoji, including "poo," is rendered differently by Apple, Android, and other platforms. Around Android's poop, there are insects and wavy lines that imply a foul odour. Apple's poop mound is grinning and has big eyes. Twitter's poop has eyes as well, but it appears rather taken aback, presumably because it has just recently come to terms with the fact that it is a sentient poop with eyes. In 2017, a "frowning pile of poo" emoji was shortlisted for inclusion in a future Unicode release. After negative feedback on this character from WG2 experts including Michael Everson and Andrew West, the frowning pile of poo emoji was removed from the list of emoji candidates. In 2024, Google has stated that it will develop an app that will be able to create "fart noise" using the poo emoji in Android messaging.

Popularity

Across all generations, pile of poo have been considered the least preferred emoji to use. Wired's Jon Mooallem considered publicizing his mother's use of the dancing poop emoji on social media. ABC News's Samantha Selinger-Morris states in her 2016 article that the smiling poop emoji is "one of the most popular emojis in existence" due to its "ineffable charm" and "ability to transcend language barriers and political differences". As such, it has been featured on Mylar birthday balloons and cupcakes.

The icon is a character in 2017's The Emoji Movie, voiced by Patrick Stewart. A public outcry occurred when recently crowned Miss Belgium, Romanie Schotte, used a "pile of poo" in response to a racist comment about somebody in the background of one of her Instagram photos, many taking it to condone the comment. The Belgian Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism opened an investigation but found no wrongdoing on her part, while the man pictured unsuccessfully sued her over the incident.

In 2018, A court used the poo emoji, namely the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Jennifer Behrens, a law librarian and researcher at Duke University, claims that the only court ruling she has seen that uses the poop emoji is in Emerson v. Dart.

In 2023, Elon Musk set Twitter to auto-reply to press emails with a poop emoji. Last May, Musk responded with the same graphic after Twitter's former CEO, Parag Agrawal, gave him a thorough explanation of why it would be challenging to gauge the extent of bot usage on the network. Musk responded with customary brevity, saying, "💩 = BS," after Twitter referenced the response in its lawsuit to compel him to finish buying the site.

In 2024, visitors made fun of a £6,000 sculpture of a snail that was erected at Medmerry Nature Reserve after it was compared to a pile of poo. A brand-new temporary bronze installation that shows the pile of poo on Nancy Pelosi's desk was also placed across from the US Capitol in Washington, DC to "honor" the individuals responsible for the January 6 United States Capitol attack. A colorectal surgeon has used a poop emoji outfit while running in London Marathon.

Encoding

The Pile of Poo emoji is encoded as follows:

Character information
Preview 💩
Unicode name PILE OF POO
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 128169 U+1F4A9
UTF-8 240 159 146 169 F0 9F 92 A9
UTF-16 55357 56489 D83D DCA9
GB 18030 148 57 218 51 94 39 DA 33
Numeric character reference 💩 💩
Shift JIS (au by KDDI) 246 206 F6 CE
Shift JIS (SoftBank 3G) 249 155 F9 9B
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI) 118 80 76 50
Emoji shortcode :poop:
Google name (pre-Unicode) POOP
CLDR text-to-speech name pile of poo
Google substitute string [ウンチ]


See also

References

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