Another emoji that’s often asked about is the pile of steaming poo. “People always ask me when the poo emoji was introduced,” Burge says. “As with all early emojis, this was implemented ...

If only the zero-star “The Emoji Movie” could rise to even a meh. The Emoji wait to get used by the phone’s owner (a teen named Alex), and are living embodiments of whatever they look like.

Using emoji in work emails may look unprofessional. On Slack, however -- no such problem. ... Custom Slack emoji like these let cubicle dwellers let off steam without seeming too grumpy.

But turns out, there are a lot of food emoji — more than 100 — and many are quite boring (it’s hard to get jazzed up about Bowl with Spoon). ... Steaming Bowl: Maybe the hippest food emoji.

Emoji were introduced in Japan in 1999, ... In the process, the poop emoji almost disappeared, because the head honchos at Google felt a steaming pile of poop was sort of an offensive symbol.