A couple months ago, my mom and I went to the store Justice at Lindale Mall. Normally, you’d have to drag me into a store like that, but I decided to be an obedient child and follow her in. Walking into that store is like walking into Barbie’s closet. The gaudy neon colors are enough to make anyone nauseous. As my mom browsed the petite shirts for a suitable one for my cousin, I stumbled upon a very upsetting sight: a sparkly pink poop emoji pillow.
The poop emoji is a symbol for how low society’s standards have come. One might argue that it is an innocent cartoonified object with cute little eyes, but that does not change what it is, poop. What child wants glorified feces on their bed? Just because a store like Justice smacks some glitter on the pillow and changes the color, doesn’t suddenly make it more acceptable. Nowadays, if we go to most stores, we can find poop emoji T-shirts, fidget spinners, socks, pillows, and even popsicle molds like the ones that reside in my home thanks to my brother. The world is trying to normalize this disgusting emoticon and I am not okay with it.
Many companies are exposing this disgraceful image to their audiences, but out of all of them, Apple is doing the best at corrupting their buyers. The iPhone X has a feature called Animoji. The phone user can talk and move their face around, while an emoji on screen mimics their movements. With this feature, the phone can make the user become cool things like a robot or a unicorn. But of course, Apple had to implement my “favorite” emoji into the software. Why would anyone want to be portrayed as a obscene talking animation?
I probably come off as a person without a sense of humor, but that isn’t the case. I am just ashamed to be apart of a culture that venerates something as revolting as the poop emoji.