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The poo emoji is not part of Unicode because rich white old cis-gendered mono-lingual oppressive hetero men thought it'd be a fun idea (outrage now!!). Emoji were adopted from existing cellphone "characters" in Japan, and Japan is famously lagging in Unicode adoption because some Japanese names cannot (could not?) be written in Unicode. It all just seems to be very normal (=inefficient, quirky) design by committee.


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