This is a purple eggplant, a long, bulbous vegetable with a green stem. The emoji🍆 shows a whole eggplant, with a smooth, shiny skin and a curved shape. The w
Later that year, the emoji inspired a trend on Instagram and other social-media sites called “#EggplantFriday,” a hashtag that was linked to posts where men posted explicit images of their “eggplants.” But in 2015, Instagram actually blocked theeggplantemoji and references to it (e.g.,...