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I don’t use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don’t find that the faces or hands are useful.
Adding skin colour was dumb to begin with. Bright yellow was just perfect for everyone you know.
ish, but somehow it ends up that yellow is white people.
look at the Simpsons for example, the default is yellow, but other skin colours are their normal colours, like black/asian.
same happened with legos.
it’s weird because any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default, rather than for everyone.
might be because I’m racist. but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default
Now I’m wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?
Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly…
but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
If xkcd introduced character whose head-circle was filled with black, that character would definitely be viewed as black. But - if all the characters had black heads, would we default back to all of them being white?
i think we can look at ancient art, which sucks for me as I was in the Detroit institute of art and they have a huge African art exhibition but got too exhausted just before getting there and missed it.
exploding that exhibition might help shed light. because if old art portrays them with “non black” colours it would shed light into this question
I don’t need people knowing I’m white, I have a reputation to uphold
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I don’t really see any reason to not use the default yellow, frankly
Dito. It also feels more inclusive since noone is yellow (unless you have liver failure)
The simpsons
Juan dice
¿Qué dice Juan?
I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.
And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.
That’s the same reason I stick with yellow. I’m not comfortable sharing my race in the wild, yellow is the unifier.
Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.
I use them, because that’s my color. It’s just a touch of personalisation. I won’t paint myself yellow in my profile pictures either.
Normally I’d ask why this is such a big deal, but I’m afraid I know. And no, I’m not fascist, not racist, and not taking any pride in skin color in any way (if anything, I’d be rather ashamed because of those white people who think they’re superior in any way). In an ideal world everyone should be able to show themselves as who they are, and I’m holding myself to that, regardless of how sick the world is.
You should be able to use any color, whether it’s your true identity or you pick it for privacy reasons. If someone harasses you just because of skin color, that piece of shit garbage motherfucker must be banned from the internet, possibly from public spaces too.
Damn this triggered me so bad.
Hey, it was descriptive, not prescriptive (nobody uses them Vs nobody should use them). There was no attack (and I’ve never met anyone who would say such a thing), don’t worry! 😊
Because emojis are stupid?
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My mom switched to them recently. It felt vaguely racist, I don’t know
I don’t use any, black or white. I ain’t racist and have words.
because it doesn’t matter what colour they are.
Just use the yellow ones. No need to add useless skin colour to emojis.
We are all one in the Simpsons
