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I don't understand why emojis should be customizable with skin colors. And five of them nonetheless. If discriminating based on skin color is racist, why do we
by rootlocus 9y ago
I don't understand why emojis should be customizable with skin colors. And five of them nonetheless. If discriminating based on skin color is racist, why do we invent new ways to do it? I'd rather use a single color for everyone (don't care which) because I don't want to express "a black man smiling", I want to express "a man smiling".
- petepete 9y agoYeah this makes much more sense. Implementers can localise if they want but skin colour isn't that important. I should totally be able to long press on dog emoji for a breed selector though.
- timpark 9y ago> (don't care which) > I don't want to express "a black man smiling" Which is it?
- rootlocus 9y agoGreen would be fine.
- wingerlang 9y agoAre you deliberately avoiding the rest of what he wrote? The point is that he doesn't care to involve color at all, having only one color would remove the "it's color X smiling" choice.
- nicky0 9y agoJust use the default yellow colour then.
- 100k 9y agoThis ignores the context that emojis came from. All of the people depicted were light skinned. Emojis didn't start neutral and gain ethnic skin colors. They started light-skinned and gained a neutral color -- and the choice to select other skin colors.