Brace yourself: Everything you knew about the Poo Emoji is a lie.

What if I told you that everything you thought you knew about your favourite emoji was a lie?

The poo emoji is a firm favourite of many.  So versatile in use, it’s cheeky smile and comical wide-eyes has plopped onto our screens and into our hearts.

Whether it be “eat (poo)”, “I feel (poo)” or “just did a massive (poo)”, it’s wiped the arse of the other emojis.

But forget everything you ever thought about the Poo emoji.

Because there’s a startling theory that it may not be a poo at all: THAT IT IS ACTUALLY CHOCOLATE ICECREAM.

Writer and editor Peter Miller made the discovery on Tuesday when he was photoshopping the poo onto the cone for a joke.

And he discovered that the icecream emoji and the poo emoji ARE THE SAME:

That’s right. The ice cream emoji is actually just THE POO EMOJI ON AN ICE CREAM CONE.

The incredible emoji discovery has the potential to retrospectively alter SO many text messages.  Like breakups:

And sick days. Is Kara sick because she’s been up all night EATING ICECREAM?! DAMN RIGHT. SHE JUST ADMITTED IT.

And what of it’s merchandise? “Icecream Happens” hardly has the same ring to it, does it?

And now we’ve seen it, we can’t unsee it. And it kind of makes sense. WHY WAS the poo emoji so happy all the time? Why was the poo so perfectly formed? What is there to smile about when you are a poo?

It’s frightful news. And now we don’t know how to feel anymore. Except emojional.