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where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate t

where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us and create outrage, for power and engagement.

AYBABTME 8y ago
The average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.
- coreyp_1 8y ago
  Nobody is average. OK, that's too short to really mean anything, so I'll elaborate. If you take the average characteristics of everyone in the world (wealth, skin tone, intelligence, BMI, height, gender, etc.), and turned that into a single person, then you would have a new, unique person. In other words, it would not "represent" anyone, and so should definitely be seen as controversial. There are a myriad of engineering stories about this discovery (one size doesn't fit all). If anything, I would have loved to see more diversity, or at the very least a prominent message on how to achieve it. Color might be the easiest change to make, but I didn't see any old or fat people on there, or how to make those variations. I like the overall idea of the project, though.
- pretendscholar 8y ago
  And the average human has roughly one testicle and breast.
tyingq 8y ago
They are svgs without gradients. It's pretty easy to change the skintones, even with a text editor.
pers0n 8y ago
Most tv and other mediums leave out minorities, so now the reverse is appauling?????
- crisstringfello 8y ago
  White humans are a global minority, and I think the morality of an act of misrepresentation is independent of who it's done to and of how many times it's done. So, "minority" is relative, but morality isn't. What do you think?

AYBABTME 8y ago

The average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.

coreyp_1 8y ago
Nobody is average. OK, that's too short to really mean anything, so I'll elaborate. If you take the average characteristics of everyone in the world (wealth, skin tone, intelligence, BMI, height, gender, etc.), and turned that into a single person, then you would have a new, unique person. In other words, it would not "represent" anyone, and so should definitely be seen as controversial. There are a myriad of engineering stories about this discovery (one size doesn't fit all). If anything, I would have loved to see more diversity, or at the very least a prominent message on how to achieve it. Color might be the easiest change to make, but I didn't see any old or fat people on there, or how to make those variations. I like the overall idea of the project, though.
pretendscholar 8y ago
And the average human has roughly one testicle and breast.

tyingq 8y ago

They are svgs without gradients. It's pretty easy to change the skintones, even with a text editor.

pers0n 8y ago

Most tv and other mediums leave out minorities, so now the reverse is appauling?????

crisstringfello 8y ago
White humans are a global minority, and I think the morality of an act of misrepresentation is independent of who it's done to and of how many times it's done. So, "minority" is relative, but morality isn't. What do you think?