1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and welcome to Stefan. Never told 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: your production of iHeartRadio and Yes I am solo today Samantha. 3 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: Her voice is not cooperating and that is very important 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: in an audio medium, so we wish her a speedy recovery. 5 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we have this classic for you. 6 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: This was a fun one. I do think we should 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: come back and update this one more fully. But it's 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: about emojis and sexting, and it's been on my mind 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: because Apple is releasing eight new emojis, I believe, and 10 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: it's always a big deal when they do, and there's 11 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about what gets as an emoji 12 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: in what doesn't, and what that says about society and 13 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: things like that. It's also been on my mind because 14 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: there was an SNL sketch recently about the most popular 15 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: and least popular emojis, and I hadn't thought about looking 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: at the least popular ones, but now I'm really curious. 17 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: But also the show Adolescence had a scene in it 18 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: that I thought was really interesting where the detective and 19 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: his son have a conversation and his son is basically 20 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: telling him, you're going about this investigation all wrong because 21 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: you don't understand the meaning of emojis. You don't understand 22 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: what this is actually communicating, and you're actually embarrassing yourself, 23 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: which is true, and it's interesting to me also the 24 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: generational difference between how we understand certain emojis. So there 25 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: is a lot to unpack with this, and it's always 26 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: been a topic that stuck with me. I was lucky 27 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: enough to get to speak at Dragon Con a couple 28 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: of years ago, and I brought this one up just 29 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: because it's one of those things that some of us 30 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: don't really put a lot of thought into, but I 31 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: find really fascinating and it is a part of our 32 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: life of like choosing that emoji, what does it mean? 33 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: And why don't they have this one? Anyway, please enjoy 34 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: this classic episode. Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and 35 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: welcome to STEPH. Mom never told you your protection of 36 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. So I have a question for you, Samantha. 37 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, yes, that's right. It's a real gotcha question. Okay, 38 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: do you use. 39 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 2: A lot of emojis? 40 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: You know, I have some favorites, and usually they're the 41 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 3: typical upside down smiley face, because I feel like that's 42 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 3: how I feel right now, uh huh. Or the ones 43 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 3: with the hearts on the face. 44 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, like the love heart Yeah yeah. 45 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 4: And I also love a good thumbs up. 46 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 3: Yeah that's like, you know, I feel like that definitely 47 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: goes a long way. 48 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 4: But I've really gotten. 49 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: Into gifts as it took me three years to finally 50 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 3: figure it out, So more of a gift person. 51 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, you do you like emojis? 52 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: I don't use them that often, but I do think 53 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: they're really useful in conversation. I use the thumbs up 54 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: a lot, and I used to like suspicious chin strokey 55 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: face a lot and. 56 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: Then the scared face. 57 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that's legit. 58 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: So perhaps that is some insights who are psyche. 59 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 3: I'm sure there is some kind of conversation of that 60 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: represents for each individual. 61 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: Oh I bet that's fascinating. 62 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 4: I bet it does. 63 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: Well. 64 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: Okay, here's another question, and it's more personal. Oh no, yes, 65 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: have you engaged in a lot of sexting in your life? 66 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: I have not because I can't take it seriously, Like 67 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 3: it just sounds so ridiculous that I am reading something 68 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 3: from my person and it's supposed to be sexy text. 69 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: So I don't I don't do you. And I say 70 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 3: this in an understanding. I've already asked, and I know 71 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: who I'm asking, but do you. 72 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: I have never purposefully done it, but I purposeful. I 73 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: definitely have caught myself in a situation where I'm like, oh, 74 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: this is sexting, and I. 75 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 2: Don't really know how I ended up there. 76 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: It's usually really goofy stuff that I thought was really silly, 77 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: but it's clear the other person did not, So never 78 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: on purpose. 79 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 3: I have to That's the problem is it was someone 80 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: is genuinely trying to sex to me. I just take 81 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 3: it as a joke, and I can't stop making some 82 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 3: kind of an appropriate joke instead of being very like 83 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 3: responsive to exactly what they're trying to do. 84 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: Sure, and that's a good segue into our topic today 85 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: because we're combining both emojis and sexting, and we're talking 86 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: about the eggplant emoji, which I have to say, if 87 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: I ever did get I think in the time I'm 88 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: thinking of where I was sexting, there was some mushroom 89 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: emojis happening, but no eggplant emoji. 90 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 4: But it was the mushroom. 91 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: It's also a dick. 92 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess in certain situations it is, but 93 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: it's kind of goofy, like every time I've encountered it, 94 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: if someone sent me an egg plant emoji, I would 95 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: automatically think it's funny. 96 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 3: Yes, right, So I think I'm too literal for things 97 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 3: like that because in my mind, I'm like, look, because 98 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 3: maybe I have a really bad sense of what eggplants 99 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 3: are in general that I'm like, if your dick looks 100 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 3: like an eggplant, you probably should see somebody like that's 101 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 3: the only thing I. 102 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 4: Can think of. 103 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: Well, it is a medical condition, and we will talk 104 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: about that more later. So yes, first of all, we 105 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: should probably say we are going to tackle this in 106 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: a mature way. But you know, if you have kids 107 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: that you don't want hearing the history of eggplant, the 108 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: eggplant emoji, it's sexting. 109 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: Here's your warning. 110 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 4: Here you go. This is it. Stop the podcast. 111 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: Now, Yes, after it's already probably too late, we thought 112 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: we would do a lighter episode to hopefully give you 113 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: some distraction from all of this bad news and frightening 114 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: news and anxiety that we're inundated with lately. So this 115 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: is inspired by an episode I did over on the 116 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 1: other podcast I do savor about eggplant. Let me tell 117 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: you this podcast is all about the history of food 118 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: and drink, and having a segment and a food and 119 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: drink podcast about a sexting emoji was quite fun and surprising. 120 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: So you can go check out that episode if you 121 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 1: want to know more about the food and a little 122 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: bit about the sexting. But in this one, we're focusing 123 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: on the sexting and emoji part. 124 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 3: Right. 125 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna be talking about the food, 126 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 4: which is delicious, I agree. 127 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 2: Last night it was great. 128 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great and courage I love it. 129 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: Also possibly relevant now during our time of self quarantine, 130 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 3: because you know, I'm guessing there's more sex thing going on, 131 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: especially if you're not with your significant other or the 132 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 3: person that you've been talking to so you can't make 133 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: physical contacts, so it would make sense sex thing may 134 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 3: be happening. Although we do have a lot of video 135 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: chats as well. But who doesn't love a good sext 136 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 3: apparently me me. 137 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: I do think it's an art and I really appreciate 138 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: when people are good at it. I've witnessed some of 139 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: my friends in action, and I always am impressed. 140 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 3: Okay, maybe that's my problem because I don't I don't 141 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 3: know if my friends sexed, because that's not a thing 142 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: we necessarily talk about, so I don't know how good. 143 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: They are some information, evanage all. 144 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: I guess I would have to start doing a survey 145 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: of all my friends soon. 146 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: Yes, an official survey for the podcast. 147 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 4: Of course, for the podcast. 148 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: Yes, So, as humans, we have been sexting pretty much forever, 149 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: from cave paintings to Carry Your Pigeons, to old school 150 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: cameras to the pager to the first text. The words 151 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: sex first appeared in Our lexicon in two thousand and four, 152 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: and you can see our past sexting episode for more 153 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: on the history of sexting. 154 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 3: So all right, in case you don't know, and if so, wow, 155 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,239 Speaker 3: that's impressive. The egg plant emoji or the aubergine emoji, 156 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 3: is a well known Internet shorthand for penises yep, to 157 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 3: the point that in January twenty fifteen, Instagram banned the 158 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 3: egg plant emoji from its search function and Facebook apparently 159 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: banned it too, And when Instagram rolled out search capabilities 160 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 3: for emojis, the eggplant was the only emoji not included. 161 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 3: Things that were included the poop emoji, the banana emoji, 162 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: the toilet emoji, which, by the way, I've not seen this, 163 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 3: the syringe emoji, and the cleft peach emoji for that ass. 164 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: Okay our Regina more on that second. 165 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay So Facebook and Instagram spoke people. When 166 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: asked about this, band said it was in an effort 167 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: to combat the sexual harassment abuse women face online. Pictures 168 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: of nude women with their nipples, butts, and originitals covered 169 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: by emoji were also banned as a part of this 170 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: and okay, dictionary dot com has an epic entry on it. 171 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: We're going to have to read it. 172 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 2: Okay. 173 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: The eggplant emoji is a long purple eggplant, but it's 174 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: really just used to represent a penis. 175 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 3: I'm liking the fight that They're very direct about what 176 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 3: is happening in the world. So the eggplant emoji first 177 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 3: debuted in twenty ten and quickly became again a symbol 178 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 3: for the penis your wall. According to Among the New Words, 179 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 3: a quarterly article in the journal American Speech, the egg 180 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 3: plan emoji was used on Twitter to mean penis as 181 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 3: early as twenty eleven, and in March of twenty fourteen, 182 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 3: the video artist Jesse Hill translated Beyonce's head song Drunken 183 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 3: Love into an emoji, using the eggplant to represent jay 184 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 3: Z's penis. 185 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: I still say he needs to go to a doctor. 186 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: The dictionary entry continues, because again this is all from 187 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: dictionary dot com quote. Later that year, the emoji inspired 188 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: a trend on Instagram and other social media sites called 189 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: hashtag eggplant Friday, a hashtag that was linked to post 190 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: where men posted explicit images of their quote eggplants. But 191 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Instagram actually blocked the egg plan emoji 192 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: in references to it eg hashtag eggplant from its search functionality. 193 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: Instagram's band resulted in a campaign called hashtag Free the Eggplant, 194 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: modeled after the similar campaign hashtag Free the Nipple in 195 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 1: twenty twelve for gender equality. And underneath this is a 196 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: picture of an eggplant with a sad face on it, 197 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 1: captioned when You're a sweet and innocent eggplant, but people 198 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: keep using you as an emoji for a. 199 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,959 Speaker 3: Dick And yes, I will be posting this on our 200 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: social media before the episode releases, so we'll put it 201 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 3: up in the story. So if you want to see 202 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 3: the sad face eggplant, if you haven't already, just tune in. 203 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: It's pretty good. 204 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 4: It's pretty so good. So yes. 205 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 3: This band was specifically to combat something called hashtag eggplant Friday. 206 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 3: That was dudes posting outlines of their junk on Friday 207 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 3: and then tagging it with hashtag eggplant Friday. The association 208 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 3: between eggplanet dicks is so semented that rather pivoting the 209 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 3: similar shaped emojis like the banana or a husk of 210 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 3: a corn, people have instead started using eggplant adjacent things 211 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 3: like eggplant barm and Instadium might have shut it down, 212 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: but the eggplant emoji is still. 213 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 4: Going strong on Twitter and Tumblr. 214 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: Were you aware of eggplant Friday when it was happening, Samantha, 215 00:11:59,640 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: I don't. 216 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 2: I wasn't. 217 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 3: I still am not aware of it, and I'm very 218 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: glad to have missed it. 219 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: Oh oh, there's a lot of documentation. I'm good as 220 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: a brief sexting primer for those who don't know, like me, 221 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: this was all news to me. Eggplant emogi plus mouth 222 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: emoji means oral sex, x plan emogi plus peach emoji 223 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: means vaginal or anal sex, and egg plant emogi plus 224 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 1: water droplets means ejaculation. 225 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: I did know that one. 226 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 3: Okay, the last one is what I've seen the most 227 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,359 Speaker 3: of and everything else makes me just sad. 228 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: Or you know, I maintain as long as people are 229 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: having a good time. 230 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 4: That's fair. That's fair. 231 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 3: Again, this is why I'm not good at sex thing 232 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 3: because I'm like, what. 233 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 4: Is happening to this full poor peach? 234 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: A you feel sorrow for the beach, for the digital peach. 235 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 4: I'm just saying so. 236 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 3: Egg plan emoji has even made an appearance in court. 237 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 3: Yes again, but that would be the Daytime show divorce court. 238 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 4: So in twenty fourteen, while. 239 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 3: Presenting his case that had significant other was cheating, a 240 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: man testified, we both have iPhones, we both have emojis. Now, 241 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,599 Speaker 3: I feel like certain emojis shouldn't just get sent to anybody. 242 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 3: And I'm referring to the mojis with the hard eyes, 243 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 3: blowing a heart kiss, and even the eggplant that some 244 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 3: people refer to as mel genitalia, in which the judge asked, wait, 245 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 3: I haven't heard about the eggplant. There's an eggplant and 246 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 3: the main responds, uh, yeah, an eggplant emoji, but it's 247 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 3: referred to as a mel genitalia. Uh. In conversations, I 248 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 3: love you had to explain the egg plant emoji to 249 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 3: a judge on camera. 250 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 2: So good, So good. 251 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, Diplo named the egg plant emoji his 252 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: favorite emoji because, quote, it's code for stuff. 253 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 4: I like that they had to be really obvious about that. 254 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: It's code for stuff. Aren't all emoji's code for stuff? 255 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: I guess there's an extra layer. 256 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 4: I guess, I mean to be fair. 257 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 3: I think everybody was really confused by the poop EMOCHI too, 258 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: because it was, like I said, ice cream, is that poop? 259 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 4: Why was it that eyes? 260 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 2: Mm hm. Canada is the biggest user of the poop emoji, 261 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: by the. 262 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: Way, and we have more facts around that, but first 263 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 1: we have a quick break for word from our sponsor. 264 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 2: And we're back, Thank you sponsor. 265 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: So prior to emoji's, before they were a thing, the 266 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: banana was the food most usually associated with the penis 267 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: here in the United States, in part because of the 268 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: use of a banana in sex egg classes to demonstrate 269 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: how to properly put on a condom. 270 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 2: No one in the US would have. 271 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: Thought of the eggplant as a symbol for a penis, 272 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: unless in the context of something you really didn't want. 273 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 2: Here's that medical condition egg plant penis. 274 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: So this is a pnile fracture that causes discoloration and swelling. 275 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 2: Sounds painful, don't want it. 276 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: Eggplant wasn't a super well known food in the United 277 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: States outside of being fried or just covered in parmesan cheese. 278 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about the inner changing 279 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 3: this conversation for eggplant. 280 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 4: Okay. 281 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 3: So, then in nineteen ninety eight, a telecom company introduced 282 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 3: the emoji keyboard as a marketing tactic targeted towards Japanese 283 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,359 Speaker 3: teenagers so that they would buy more pagers. 284 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 4: Well, I will. 285 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: Say because it was in my heyday, the pagers and such, 286 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: it definitely was the beginning of hookups. You got a 287 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 3: specific text or if you got a specific like icon 288 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 3: or number set, it was like, oh come over. 289 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: Really yeah yeah, so interested in this? 290 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 4: Yeah. 291 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 3: So it's definitely like a code, like if there's certain 292 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 3: type of numbers it's nine, one, one or whatever. Typically 293 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 3: you know, use it to have them call back, but 294 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: they use different things in order or to represent different 295 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: things to be like, hey, this is the moment you 296 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: need to come over. 297 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 4: My husband's not here or my wife's not here. 298 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 3: You know, the cheating level, as well as if you're 299 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 3: a teenager like I was, we would use it to 300 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 3: spell boob somehow. 301 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they showed in the article the history 302 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: of sexing, and I was like, oh my gosh, children. 303 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 4: I mean, we did that in calculators too, but the 304 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 4: page was even more fun. 305 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: You're right, You're right. 306 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 3: So these first emojis were mostly tame manga inspired smiley 307 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: faces and hand gestures, and then a Minute came up 308 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 3: with them as a way to help shy teenagers clarify 309 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: the meaning and emotion behind their texts. I will say 310 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 3: a lot of the times, if I feel like I'm 311 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 3: being too mean or harsh, I use an emoji, which 312 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 3: is interesting. Of the two hundred and eighty two emojis 313 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 3: included in the first release of emojis, there were a 314 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 3: handful of food items, including the banana, but no eggplant. 315 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: Other companies got in on the emoji game by offering 316 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: up competing sets of different, quote better emojis. Apple got 317 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: in on it in two thousand and eight, officially choosing 318 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: their favorite set of emojis to be their debut emoji 319 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: keyboard for the iPhone. Eggplant was not included. Nope, the 320 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: egg plan emogi was born in the United States and 321 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: twenty ten thanks to the Unicode Consortium. 322 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds like a secret club, Well it kind 323 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 4: of is. 324 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 1: The Unicode Consortium dictates the computer coding specs of things, 325 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: including emojis, so that they work across multiple platforms and devices, 326 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 1: and that includes the egg plan emoji. By twenty eleven, 327 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: the unicodes emojis were up and running on the iPhone 328 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: and in no time at all, Americans rallied behind the 329 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: sexting potential of the egg plant emoji. 330 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 2: Within three years. 331 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: In December twenty fourteen, hashtag eggplant Friday was a movement 332 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: on Instagram and within months Instagram shut it down. And 333 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: apparently this is a very iPhone specific thing. That's what 334 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 1: a lot of articles I read said. The egg plant 335 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: emoji on androids is shorter and plumper. And so I 336 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 1: did a little sleep thing because I have an Android, 337 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: and I guess so it still looks pretty phallic to me. 338 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: But and. 339 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 4: But I like you into with a butt. But we should. 340 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 3: Say it's not just used for sexual situations, but also 341 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 3: in a non threatening way to communicate arousal, sort of 342 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 3: in a joking manner. And again I still hold to 343 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: if your penis looks like this eggplant, I'm going to 344 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 3: tell you to go see a damn doctor. And also 345 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 3: stat I don't want an eggplant near me. 346 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 2: I don't need these thoughts you're putting in my head. 347 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: But yeah, I have seen it in a lot of 348 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 1: like you know, if somebody post a sheet pan of 349 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: cookies and then I'll see egg plant emoji, like you 350 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: know that kind of joking, Oh I'm so turned cookies again. 351 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to take another survey because my friends 352 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 3: and I don't ever use that in context of like, oh, 353 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 3: I'm so into these cookies. 354 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: So type up an official survey, get back to me. 355 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 3: Okay, you know what this is going to go out, 356 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 3: quarantining Live, hashtag quarantine life. Do the survey about penises, 357 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 3: Thank you and. 358 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 1: Egg plant emoji. Your responses are much appreciated. 359 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 4: Despite this all for education, Okay it is. 360 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 2: We're just trying to do a service for everybody. 361 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 3: I'm going to specifically send it to my female friends 362 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 3: and be like how many times do you get an 363 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: egg plant emoji? 364 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 4: And if you're talking or flirting? 365 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: Also, listeners, please weigh in on this. 366 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 2: Weigh in on this very important matter. 367 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 3: I need to know how many of you use the 368 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 3: egg plan emoji and it's all how many of you 369 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 3: get sent egg plant emojis on the regular? 370 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: Spenty needs to know. Spenty needs to know. 371 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: Despite the food world being packed with phallic items, just packed, somehow, 372 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: we haven't applied them to men in the same way 373 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: we've applied food items to women. I mean, if you 374 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,479 Speaker 1: can think about melonszams, peaches, pineapples, so many things. 375 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 4: Wait, what's the pineapples for? I? 376 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: You know, I would love someone to write in but 377 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: I saw this in reference to a lot of things. 378 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 2: I have my suspicions, but. 379 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, someone needs to explain to me what the pineapple, 380 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 3: the peaches even kind of the yams and the melons. 381 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 4: I get it when you cut it, but huh. 382 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: Okay, huh. But why did we settle on the eggplants? 383 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: Why didn't Americans in particular latch onto the eggplant as 384 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: a euphemism for dix. Well we'll get into that after 385 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: a quick break for a word from our sponsor, and 386 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: we're back, Thank you, sponsor. 387 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 3: So surveys show the eggplant as a sex is particularly 388 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 3: American thing, although Canada UK and Australia are up there too. 389 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 3: There are a couple of theories as to why, and 390 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 3: one of the main ones is here in the US, 391 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 3: we really don't have a lot of familiarity with eggplant, 392 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 3: especially not the longer, thinner Japanese variety as opposed to 393 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 3: the shorter, squadier Italian type. 394 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 4: Oh my god, just saying these words. 395 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 3: Whereas we associate corn with teeth and maybe wholesomeness, do 396 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 3: we I am bananas like America. 397 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: You know, you're in the Midwest and you got the 398 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,959 Speaker 1: little corn on the cop things and you're eating it. 399 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 3: Maybe that's just me, maybe that maybe I'm just not 400 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 3: as imaginative. So and bananas with awkward sex edged classes, 401 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 3: which makes sense, and we don't we didn't really have 402 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 3: any cultural ideas attached to eggplants. 403 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: Others say that the reason Americans latched onto this is 404 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: down to the shape and the color, which isn't exactly correct, 405 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: but is more on point than yellow maybe or that's 406 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: how the argument goes. And I've also heard arguments about 407 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: the eggplant's size. So the banana doesn't suggest the big 408 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: now that the thunder wants to suggest. 409 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 2: Because we're all children, we're children. 410 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 4: There's so many things. 411 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 3: So in twenty thirteen, it was officially recommended for innu 412 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 3: window purposes by Fred Bennison. 413 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 4: And this guy would know. 414 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 3: He edited Emoji Dick, an emoji reimagining of Herman Melville's 415 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 3: classic Oh Dear God. 416 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 4: That same year, it was mentioned in. 417 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: A slide show by The Complex about what emojis were 418 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 3: best to use for sexting. 419 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 4: I'm really glad we have guidelines. 420 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, we need those guidelines, But I did find this 421 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,479 Speaker 1: slideshow quite like. It starts off with a warning that 422 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: you make sure the girl or woman you are sexing 423 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: is at least eighteen, which yes, but also. 424 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: And it had a lot of like. 425 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: If you're sexting two women at once, how to get 426 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: off twice without one of them knowing? And I'm not 427 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: opposed to consensual, polyamorous relationships or open relationships. It was 428 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: just the vibe of trickery manipulation that turned me off. 429 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 4: But oh, yeah, that's bad. 430 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, perhaps a conversation for another day. That twenty fourteen 431 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: Jesse Hill video played a huge part in proliferating the 432 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: eggplant's reputation in This Realm too. Bob was an early 433 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: adopter of eggplant Friday. 434 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 4: That makes sense. 435 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 3: Early in twenty fifteen, a co author of the Unicode 436 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 3: Consortium sent out an email with the subject line sex 437 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 3: Emoji to their public listeners to bring attention to the 438 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 3: whole eggplant situation, and then a study that same year 439 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 3: from match dot com found a correlation between the sending 440 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 3: of emojis and higher rates of sex among its almost 441 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 3: fifty seven hundred single respondents, by margin about twenty percent 442 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 3: for both men and women. Academics believe this might be 443 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 3: because emojis do help clarify emotions and tones of digital interactions. Apparently, 444 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 3: frequent emoji users are also twice as likely to get married. 445 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 4: Oh is that what I've been doing wrong? 446 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's your emoji lack of emoji use. That's definitely 447 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: what it is. Hashtag free the eggplant has so far 448 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,719 Speaker 1: been unsuccessful. Eggplant Emoji Vibrator was released in twenty sixteen, 449 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: So there is that at least two companies have come 450 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: out of this whole thing too, Eggplant in the Mail 451 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: and Eggplant Mail, which both send eggplants in the mail 452 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: as joke gifts. I have done something similar with potatoes 453 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: and it was a huge hit. 454 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 4: So is a potato sexual too. 455 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: No, well, probably for some people, but it's just that, 456 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: like you're opening up a box and you think, oh, 457 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: what could this gift be, and it's a potato. 458 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 4: Something you can give single potato. 459 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yes, yes, So that's kind of the history 460 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: of the eggplant emoji. There's some brief other things we 461 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: wanted to touch on other emoji news. 462 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 3: I suppose yes, diverse emojis, I say, and hashtag free 463 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: the nipple and missectoy patients and breastfeeding mothers was successful also, however. 464 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, a twenty fifteen study on worldwide emoji use found 465 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: that the US used more LGBTQ plus emojis than anywhere else. 466 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: We also use more quote female or oriented emoji and 467 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: that I think that's the females. Well until recently, no, 468 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: because there weren't that many. But speaking of you can 469 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: talk about that, Samantha. 470 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 3: So the introduction of more diverse again in twenty fifteen, 471 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 3: the first modifier codes for changing skin tones where emojis 472 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: were introduced. 473 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 4: And then there was a little bit of mixed reviews 474 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 4: for that. 475 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:23,679 Speaker 2: Yeah. 476 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: Then in twenty twenty, another release included things like gender 477 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: neutral Santa Claus a man in a wedding dress, women 478 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: in tuxedos, and the transgender flag. This after a twenty 479 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: nineteen batch came with same sex couples and a twenty 480 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: seventeen push for non binary options, and this after a 481 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen push to have less sexist female emojis, because 482 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,719 Speaker 1: no joke, the only options for women at first were bride, Princess, 483 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: flamenco dancer, and playboy bunny. As compared to all the 484 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: male emojis in occupations doing things, the new female emojis 485 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: ranged from scientists, welder's code, mechanics, farmers, business people, and chefs. 486 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: On top of that, female versions for a lot of 487 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: the male emojis were introduced, and there was also a 488 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: woman wearing a hit job. 489 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 3: So the introduction of new emoji is big business. By 490 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 3: the way, big companies pay upwards of an annual eighteen 491 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 3: thousand dollars to vote on them, and you've probably seen 492 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 3: companies petition for them like Taco Bell and Tagos come 493 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 3: to mind. Yeah, and about ninety percent of us use 494 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 3: them and on Facebook Messenger five billion or cent a day. 495 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 4: So this stuff actually matters. 496 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: It really does, and we should return return to the 497 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: world of emoji for a future episode, and did want 498 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: to say before we completely close out. We back when 499 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: Bridget and I were hosting together, we did an episode 500 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: on exhibitionism and why dick pics are a thing. So 501 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: if you want a more serious look at why women 502 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: receive unsolicited dick pics, which is not don't do it, 503 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: you can check out that episode. I would love again 504 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 1: for listeners to write in about their experience with the 505 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: eggplant emoji and sexting and if they were around and 506 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: remember eggplant Friday. 507 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: Is it good that it's shut down? Is it sad? 508 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 2: Just your experiences with it? 509 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: Right? You can send those experiences to our email at 510 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: stuff Media, Momstuff at iHeartMedia dot com. You can also 511 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: find us on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcasts or on 512 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: Instagram at Stuff I've Never Told You. 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