Poop Emoji Soft-Serve Is All the Rage in Tokyo

Poop emoji soft-serve is here to haunt your dreams

A cafe in Tokyo’s fashionable Harajuku neighborhood is hawking soft-serve that looks like the poop emoji, complete with googly eyes and a toilet-shaped bowl. Gross? Maybe, but this soft-serve innovation was written in the stars: In case you never noticed, the poop emoji and the ice cream cone emoji are THE SAME DAMN THING. Behold:

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