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Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji
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- Chris_Chambers 7y agoCringe.
- flukus 7y agoIf we'd just kept to the round yellow faces that represent everyone and no one in particular we wouldn't be in this mess :)
- stunt 7y agoJust imagine how much man-hour, money, and energy have been allocated to actually turning emojis into a race and gender problem. And next to that is all the mental overhead for people when they want to use these emojis with different skin tones and genders these days.
- pxue 7y agoTruely we've became a race of bureaucrats and "artists". Unfit to do any productive work.
- stephenr 7y agoWhat about those suffering Jaundice?
- sebazzz 7y agoTrue, but there is the family emoji which is a man, woman, child emoji joined by a UTF ZWJ. That wouldn't be possible then.
- Grue3 7y agoNot even yellow. Monochrome. The characters shouldn't have any color specified. There's no need for a separate character for black A, yellow A, green A. Why should there be any for emoji? All of them were originally monochrome. A separate markup language (e.g. CSS) could be used to assign them any color or style.
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- bdz 7y agoInvestigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji/ https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m... https://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/Emoji_Interpretation_Paper.pdf https://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/Emoji_Interpretat...
- chomp 7y agoFeels like an overly dressed article for what amounts to "Google now allows haircuts for emojis". Also I had a laugh at the swimmer emoji. I guess they could have a different hair style under their swim cap. Tangentially related, Does anyone else have a problem seeing these graphically dense emojis? I find myself always squinting for anything other than the iconic emojis. It's pretty telling that even the article itself has to blow them up to show the details.
- lykr0n 7y agoI found the only emojis I use are on Telegram as a shortcut to find a sticker I want. I've never seen an emoji larger than 64x64px anywhere outside of source documents. 99.9% of people, at most, use the basic emojis if any at all. In my book, this is just for Google to get "woke" points.
- LyndsySimon 7y agoAm I missing something? These don’t seem to have anything to do with “gender fluid”, which to my knowledge means someone whose gender is not static (and not even necessarily non-binary). These just seem like emojis without assigned or assignable gender. If anything, this is the gender analogue to race’s Simpson yellow skin.
- acct1771 7y agoHow's Apu fit into the "yellow is neutral" thought, here?
- whamlastxmas 7y agoYou'll note they removed Apu from the show.
- detaro 7y agoYeah, seems like a bad choice in the headline, especially given the long quote about how they're specifically try not to assign any gender identity to those. Also found the three-aside display interesting in that I hadn't noticed before how many examples really only differ in haircut, nothing else.