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.
I don't use any, black or white. I ain't racist and have words.
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.
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)
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.
My mom switched to them recently. It felt vaguely racist, I don't know
Did you feel that way when your non white friends did it though?
I see some whites do it but it started after the non whites started picking the proper shade.
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.
Adding skin colour was dumb to begin with. Bright yellow was just perfect for everyone you know.
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.
any colour you choose for a βdefaultβ will end up mapped to the βculturalβ 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?
i think we can look at ancient art, which sucks for me as I was in the Detroit institute of art and they have a huge African art exhibition but got too exhausted just before getting there and missed it.
exploding that exhibition might help shed light. because if old art portrays them with "non black" colours it would shed light into this question
Because emojis are stupid?
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