Daily Emoji

The community says…

“A red square that ran the internet for one year. Started as ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓ and Bloods gang shorthand, then 2016-2017 meme culture began swapping it into any word containing a ▓, then into words containing no ▓ at all. ▓epsi. Gotta ▓elieve. It infested r/dankmemes so hard the subreddit held a formal vote on banning it, and the ban lost by 169 votes. Democracy chose the ▓.”

Which emoji are they defining?