Comment by graemep
25 days ago
There are too many, and there are a ridiculous number of variants. Why do we need options for the skin colour of an emoji? How on earth does it change the meaning of a smiley or a face palm? Faces with different hair colours too! Clocks with hands at different times?
Which skin color should all emoji be?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/e5/36/0ae536826bb1cf643e6f05066...
Original bright yellow was a good candidate, since actually no one looks like this.
Why should skin colour be specified at all? Why not leave it as an implementation detail? Yellow is the popular default choice, but it could very well be green, blue, pink, or anything really.
Why are the Simpsons yellow, yet the black guy in the show is black?
There's no "neutral" rather its just "white without specifying it"
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why not let people just pick which one they want to use
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Indigenous is a tricky concept in many place. Can you tell me who that map defines as the indigenous people of the following places:
England
Japan
Turkey
Sri Lanka
South Africa
This map doesn't seem accurate.