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easy early fix would have been to make all skin tone emojis blue. okay now they represent everyone and no one, no need to introduce ten skin color gradients for
by junkscience2017 9y ago
easy early fix would have been to make all skin tone emojis blue. okay now they represent everyone and no one, no need to introduce ten skin color gradients for each meme
- maxerickson 9y agoThere are (a small number of) people with blue tinted skin. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-re...
- Klathmon 9y agoFYI that article will start playing a full-volume video ad as you start scrolling down. Scared the shit out of me.
- maxerickson 9y agoSorry, didn't happen to me, I would have found an alternative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates
- Klathmon 9y agoNo knock against you, just wanted to point it out since it was so shocking for me.
- gweinberg 9y agoWhy would blue be any more neutral than yellow?
- ac29 9y agoProbably a cultural carryover from The Simpsons, as mentioned in the article, where the yellow people where generally regarded to be white, as opposed to characters who were clearly black, asian, or other races.