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The Poop Emoji celebrates its 10th anniversary. It was created by Google engineers Darick Tong, Darren Lewis, Takeshi Kishimoto, and Katsuhiko “Kat” Momoi. The emoji is inspired by Dr. Slump, a Japanese animation character from the 80s. Google partnered with KDDI AU to adopt emojis for Gmail in 2007. In 2008, Google posted a blog post titled: “A picture is worth a thousand words” The poop emoji was included.