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.
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