Nobody uses the white emojis
Nobody uses the white emojis
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Adding skin colour was dumb to begin with. Bright yellow was just perfect for everyone you know.
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ish, but somehow it ends up that yellow is white people.
look at the Simpsons for example, the default is yellow, but other skin colours are their normal colours, like black/asian.
same happened with legos.
it's weird because any colour you choose for a "default" will end up mapped to the "cultural" default, rather than for everyone.
might be because I'm racist. but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
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any colour you choose for a โdefaultโ will end up mapped to the โculturalโ default
Now I'm wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?
Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly...
but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
If xkcd introduced character whose head-circle was filled with black, that character would definitely be viewed as black. But - if all the characters had black heads, would we default back to all of them being white?
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Just use the yellow ones. No need to add useless skin colour to emojis.
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We are all one in the Simpsons
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I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.
And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.
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That's the same reason I stick with yellow. I'm not comfortable sharing my race in the wild, yellow is the unifier.
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Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.
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Emojis started off yellow and never really implied any skin colour.
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Just like Lego
I mean look at this cursed Michael Strahan Minifig:
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My mom switched to them recently. It felt vaguely racist, I don't know
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All colored emojis feel racist to me. Even the white ones.
Adding race to something that didn't have it before is by definition racist. Because all your doing is creating racial divides where there was none before.
It also reinforces the original color as the cultural normal. Instead of it just being generic.
So yellow went from being just a thing to bring white. Cause now black or tan are "other" then default.
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I use them after a POC friend said they thought it was cool when white folks use them and i've never heard anyone complain about it before this thread. It never occurred to me before that but i have many kinds of privilege so i'll make any simple accommodation like that I can.
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No, and that's the part that makes it feel weird
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โโโ(หถห ๊ณ หหถ)โโพโพ superiority tho
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เผผ ใค โ_โ เผฝใค Kaomoji my beloved (โ๏พใฎ๏พ)โ
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เดฎโกเดฎ of course its the best
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I don't need people knowing I'm white, I have a reputation to uphold
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I use them. I'm not a character from The Simpsons.
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Hey, it was descriptive, not prescriptive (nobody uses them Vs nobody should use them). There was no attack (and I've never met anyone who would say such a thing), don't worry! ๐
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because it doesn't matter what colour they are.
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it's funny i only know one person that uses these and he is basically a fascist
also i know this single person who is white but uses the black thumbsup for some reason
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I use them and the yellow ones interchangeably. They happen to be the same color as my skin which is why I sometimes use them. But Iโm not attached enough to go looking for them when the generic yellow is easier.
I donโt use them with strangers though. Mainly because I donโt feel like randomly announcing my skin color to people I have never met and will never meet when it adds nothing at all to the conversation.
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I don't use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don't find that the faces or hands are useful.
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A lot of the dark emojis are just from white people bragging about their tans.
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Because emojis are stupid?
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I don't really see any reason to not use the default yellow, frankly
Dito. It also feels more inclusive since noone is yellow (unless you have liver failure)
The simpsons
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I agree, as a white person, that yellow seems more neutral. But, then people who are even slightly not white are always eager to switch. So yellow is just away for white people not to choose and risk coming across as overly invested in advertising their skin color. I also notice some people have a skewed idea of how brown they actually are and will pick a shade or two darker than their real skin tone.