Eggplant emoji

Social media users have noted the emoji's phallic appearance and often use it as a euphemistic or suggestive icon during sexting conversations in order to represent a penis.

[1] When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, there was an emoji keyboard intended for Japanese users only,[2] which encoded them using SoftBank's Private Use Area scheme.

[10][17] By the mid-2010s, online magazine outlets wrote about how the emoji's usage in sexual contexts morphed society's connotations of the eggplant "from an innocuous vegetable to America's favorite shorthand for a throbbing cock.

"[13] Writing for Cosmopolitan, Kathryn Lindsay stated that "this simple, previously neglected vegetable rocketed into stardom in a matter of years, thanks to our collective decision to deem it the universal symbol for dick.

In 2019, the cosmetics retailer Lush sold bath bombs resembling the eggplant emoji for Valentine's Day.