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