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I noticed that when I click the thumbs-up emoji in Slack, I now have to select its skin color. That's fucking dystopian.
by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
I noticed that when I click the thumbs-up emoji in Slack, I now have to select its skin color. That's fucking dystopian.
- biswaroop 5y agoSorry honest question: why is that dystopian? Also :+1: gives me the usual yellowish emoji.
- nindalf 5y agoPresumably because yellow should work for everyone. There will always be some people who are offended that a choice exists, even if they don’t plan to take it.
- luckylion 5y agoBe happy that you don't have to prove your skin color to Slack yet. You're currently still able to appropriate minority skin colors, but I guess we're just one white guy using a brown-skin thumbs-up ("it's literally the brown thumbs, it's the modern brown shirts") before Slack mandates skin color tests.
- skohan 5y agoIt is interesting. On the one hand, I can see how the previous model could be sightly alienating to anyone who's skin color doesn't obviously map to "Simpsons Yellow". However, whether people pay attention to it or not, the new interface quantifies approval in a way which can be segmented by skin color, which seems kind of odd.
- umanwizard 5y agoYeah. I think it’s weird to be constantly reminded of my colleagues’ skin color while reading Slack.