Instagram bans the eggplant emoji from its new search function

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 17:10 in Health & Medicine

The Eggplant emoji has been blacklisted from Instagram's new search function, much like it's predecessor, the #eggplant hashtag. We explain how a seemingly innocuous food item became the social network's enemy number one.

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