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Not exactly – the "Homer Simpson" yellow emoji came after the initial (Apple) emoji font, which just had all the humans looking white, with no other options.
by cpmsmith 5y ago
Not exactly – the "Homer Simpson" yellow emoji came after the initial (Apple) emoji font, which just had all the humans looking white, with no other options.
- userbinator 5y agoLong before non-Japanese started calling them "emoji", we had "smilies" and they were yellow.
- ectopod 5y agoYes. PhpBB and my Nokia feature phone have had yellow smilies since before iPhones were a thing.
- wellthisisgreat 5y agoThis is accurate. https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/smiley-face-history-thumbnail.jpg https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/smiley...
- nostromo 5y agoThis is false. The first emojis were Japanese in origin and were the first to use yellow faces. Apple copied the existing style from the Japanese illustrations.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoThis is untrue. Not that any of them look like Simpsons characters, but the only emoji option on iOS for like five years was the yellow-shaded cartoon face. It's still the default skin tone in most emoji sets. https://emojipedia.org/emoji-1.0/ https://emojipedia.org/emoji-1.0/
- cpmsmith 5y agoThe cartoon faces have always been yellow, but the human ones, e.g. hands or gendered faces, were not until 2015 (on iOS). https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/ https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/ There was a lot of discourse about it at the time. https://www.fastcompany.com/3016256/are-emojis-racist https://www.fastcompany.com/3016256/are-emojis-racist