Biology:Peach emoji

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The peach emoji as it appears on Twitter.

The Peach emoji (πŸ‘) is an emoji featuring a pinkish-orange peach. It is one of the most commonly used emojis other than eggplant emoji on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Social media users often used it for buttocks or suggestive icon during sexting conversations.

Development and usage history

The peach emoji was originally included in proprietary emoji sets from au by KDDI.[1] As part of a set of characters sourced from SoftBank Mobile, au by KDDI, and NTT Docomo emoji sets, the peach emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.[2] Global popularity of emojis then surged in the early to mid-2010s.[3] The peach emoji has been included in the Unicode Technical Standard for emoji (UTS #51) since its first edition (Emoji 1.0) in 2015.[2]

Character information
Preview Template:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showcharTemplate:Charmap/showchar
Unicode name PEACH
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 127825 0 0 0 U+1F351
UTF-8 0 159 141 145 0 0 0 Template:UTF-8/4 9F 8D 91 00 00 00
UTF-16 55356 57169 0 0 0 D83C DF51 0000 0000 0000
GB 18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030 Template:GB18030
Numeric character reference 🍑��� 🍑���
7-bit JIS (au by KDDI)[1] 122 124 7A 7C
Emoji shortcode[4] :peach:
Google substitute string[5] [γƒ’γƒ’]

Popularity on social media and cultural impact

The peach emoji is commonly used to represent buttocks or even female genitalia in sexting conversations.[6][7][8] This usage has been noted to be common in the United States.[9]

The emoji was used as a reference to buttocks including impeachment and the desire to remove the POTUS from office in general on Twitter and other social media.[10][11] In line with the peach emoji's common usage in sexual contexts, Emojipedia noted that the emoji is popularly paired with the eggplant emoji (πŸ†), which is often used to represent a penis.[12] Since the beginning of impeachment proceedings against President Trump in 2019, the peach emoji has been used and finds itself at the center of an impeachment controversy, with people quoting it as the "imπŸ‘ment controversy".[13] Destructoid writer Brett Makedonski said the character characterization was done "to great effect."[14][11] In 2019, The Christian Science Monitor has claimed that "β€˜Impeachment’ has nothing to do with fruit".[15]

Reception

In 2015, Vice claimed that peach emoji is the "best vagina emoji".[16] In 2021, The Verge stated that peach emoji joined together with new bubbles emoji will be "great",[17] while Cosmopolitan ranked peach emoji as 11th "horniest emoji".[18]

In 2016, Apple Inc. brought back the peach emoji and attempted to redesign the emoji to less resemble buttocks,[19] later some fans praised the emoji's comeback,[20] but this was mostly met with fierce backlash in beta testing and Apple reversed its decision by the time it went live to the public.[21][22] In April 2019, Facebook and Instagram both banned using the eggplant or peach emojis alongside "sexual statements about being horny."[23]

The company expanded their peach and eggplant emoji-themed product line in 2017.[24]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter. "Emoji Symbols: Background Dataβ€”Background data for Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10132-emojidata.pdf. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "πŸ‘ Peach". Emojipedia. https://emojipedia.org/peach/. Retrieved December 23, 2021. 
  3. ↑ "Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…". Oxford Dictionaries Blog. November 16, 2015. https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/#:~:text=Oxford%20Word%20of%20the%20Year%202015%20%7C%20Oxford%20Languages&text=That's%20right%20%E2%80%93%20for%20the%20first,know%20it%20by%20other%20names.. 
  4. ↑ JoyPixels. "Emoji Alpha Codes". Emoji Toolkit. https://github.com/joypixels/emoji-toolkit/tree/master/extras/alpha-codes. 
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gmoji
  6. ↑ Schwedel, Heather (September 26, 2019). "Does the Peach Emoji Still Mean Butt, or Is It a Rallying Cry for Democracy?". https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/peach-emoji-meaning-butt-impeachment.html. 
  7. ↑ "A beginner's guide to sexting with emoji". December 27, 2016. https://www.dailydot.com/irl/sexting-emoji/. 
  8. ↑ Nazim, Hafeezah. "It's Confirmed: The Eggplant Emoji Symbolizes A Penis". https://www.nylon.com/life/dictionary-emojis-explained-eggplant-penis. 
  9. ↑ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (October 21, 2015). "How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/technology/how-emojis-find-their-way-to-phones.html. Retrieved March 17, 2019. 
  10. ↑ "How Are You Supposed To Use The Peach EmojiπŸ‘?". https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/peach-emoji/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Guardian Staff (October 2, 2019). "Peachy: the emoji that's become a political statement". http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/oct/02/peachy-the-emoji-thats-become-a-political-statement. 
  12. ↑ Kircher, Madison Malone (December 16, 2016). "Very Official Study Finds Peach Emoji Most Often Paired With Eggplant". Intelligencer. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/what-does-peach-emoji-mean-its-a-butt.html. Retrieved March 18, 2019. 
  13. ↑ "How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance". The Washington Times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-the-sexy-peach-emoji-joined-the-resistance/2019/09/30/4b0d292e-e142-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html. Retrieved 24 December 2021. 
  14. ↑ "Review: Life is Strange: Before the Storm: Brave New World". https://www.destructoid.com/review-life-is-strange-before-the-storm-brave-new-world-467733.phtml. 
  15. ↑ "'Impeachment' has nothing to do with fruit". October 31, 2019. https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2019/1031/Impeachment-has-nothing-to-do-with-fruit. 
  16. ↑ "What's the Best Vagina Emoji?". https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkjd75/whats-the-best-vagina-emoji. 
  17. ↑ Porter, Jon (September 15, 2021). "There's a new bubbles emoji that'll go just great with the peach". https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675134/unicode-emoji-version-14-bubbles-saluting-face-biting-lip-2021. 
  18. ↑ Hsieh, Carina; Smothers, Hannah; Varina, Rachel (August 11, 2021). "Yes, There's Such a Thing as Horny Emojis, and Yes, We're Going to Break Them Down for You". https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8595350/horniest-emojis/. 
  19. ↑ "Apple brings back the peach butt emoji". https://social.techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/apple-brings-back-the-peach-butt-emoji/. 
  20. ↑ "The Peach Emoji Butt Is Back And Fans Couldn't Be Any Happier". https://www.complex.com/style/2016/11/apple-peach-emoji-butt-returns. 
  21. ↑ "Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features". November 16, 2016. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/16/everything-is-peachy-as-apple-restores-emojis-bum-features. 
  22. ↑ "Here's Why People Are Upset About the New Emoji Update". https://www.complex.com/style/2016/11/peach-emoji-update-fans-react-twitter. 
  23. ↑ "'Sexual' use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram". October 29, 2019. https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/sexual-use-of-eggplant-and-peach-emojis-banned-on-facebook-instagram/. 
  24. ↑ Bradford, Tayler (January 9, 2020). "Eggplant and peach-emoji bath products have arrived". New York Post. https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/eggplant-and-peach-emoji-bath-products-have-arrived/. Retrieved December 22, 2021. 



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