The emoji was used as a reference to penis on Twitter as early as 2011. In line with the eggplant emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the peach emoji (🍑), which is often used to represent a buttocks or female genitalia. This usage has been noted to be common particularly in the United States, as well as in Canada. The "aubergine" or "eggplant" emoji is commonly used to represent a penis in sexting conversations. Popularity on social media and cultural impact The eggplant emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015. Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s. In 2011, Apple made the emoji keyboard a standard iOS feature worldwide. Īs part of a set of characters sourced from SoftBank, au by KDDI, and NTT Docomo emoji sets, the eggplant emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Aubergine". However, after iPhone users in the United States discovered that downloading Japanese apps allowed access to the keyboard, pressure grew to expand the availability of the emoji keyboard beyond Japan. When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, there was an emoji keyboard intended for Japanese users only, which encoded them using SoftBank's Private Use Area scheme. The eggplant emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from SoftBank Mobile and au by KDDI. 2 Popularity on social media and cultural impact.
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