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 ...

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.

You cling to the small victories with a movie like this. In truth ... all you’ll have to do is take your kid to the theater and look at an “Alvin” movie poster for a few seconds.

Stroll along just about any park, sidewalk, or trail, and you’re sure to see (or worse, step in) a steaming pile of dog poop. Pooper-scooper ... Mid-sized carnivores, like bobcats and Indian ...

If the story of the poop emoji’s rise were told in emojis, it would look like this: …which is to say, it is an international tale of drama, cultural differences, and near-disasters.