The emoji Gods describe the troublesome pictogram as "a pile of poo that is shaped like a soft-serve ice cream. Brown in colour with a friendly smile in most versions." Well that solves it then.

A lot of thinking went into the design for the poop emoji. On iPhones, iPads, and Macs, the "poop" emoji looks like this ... resemblance to the ice cream soft serve emoji): It just goes to ...