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This 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
by tomjakubowski 5y ago
This 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