Comment by graemep

Comment by graemep 2 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?

neogodless 2 days ago

Which skin color should all emoji be?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/e5/36/0ae536826bb1cf643e6f05066...

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KptMarchewa 2 days ago

Original bright yellow was a good candidate, since actually no one looks like this.

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F3nd0 2 days ago

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.

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- magguzu 2 days ago
  
  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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  graemep 2 days ago
  
  That is your perception. What is neutral is cultural, maybe personal.
  I grew up in two multi-cultural places so do not have the same default perceptions.
  
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  F3nd0 2 days ago
  
  Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?
  
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- tehjoker 2 days ago
  
  why not let people just pick which one they want to use
  
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  F3nd0 2 days ago
  
  I guess they could just support custom colours, but that seems like a needless complication—much like skin tones themselves.
  
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  graemep 11 hours ago
  
  Just use a font with the colours you like?
  
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graemep 2 days ago

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

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normie3000 2 days ago

This map doesn't seem accurate.

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