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Do you use emoji by what skin color you have ?
- Thread starter Armadilo
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Like it seems too much work but I'm guessing there's a way to change it as you see fit
It would be nice if the default was brown. A lot of the time the 'normal' skin-tone for things defaults to white. But I do go through the extra step of selecting my skin tone for the ones that allow it. If I'm using a yellow emoji then whatever. But for things like the hand signs or little people, definitely.
I either use yellow because it's quicker or sometimes scroll to the whitest as I'm pretty damn pale. But I'm not too bothered by it.
I've heard the term "digital blackface" getting thrown around for using black emoji, gifs etc when you aren't black which, while weird to me, made me feel a bit averse to using emoji not my own skin color lol.
I mostly use yellow or white
I mostly use yellow or white
Tbh I never use those emojis with humans on them, I just use these classic circular emojis 😃😐😂😅 which are always yellow
Another white person using only yellow emoji. I know most people who use white emojis think nothing of it, but it bothers me a -tiny- bit that for some reason they decided to do the extra step of switching the skin colour.
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I'll say again: It is a VERY minor thing, I don't see a white emoji and think "Look at this motherfucking racist", it feels more like reading a typo or a grammatical mistake.
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I'll say again: It is a VERY minor thing, I don't see a white emoji and think "Look at this motherfucking racist", it feels more like reading a typo or a grammatical mistake.
I use the white ones but that's because it feels more personal when I send someone 'The finger' emoji!
I generally use yellow but I have used the ones in shades of brown because I'm shades of brown so. In all honesty the human emoji's are turds anyway don't use them if you want to avoid being lame.
I use the white people one's for hand signs and use yellow for emoji faces etc (same with the people)
Once I did it to try I just kept doing it, now they are shortcuts so I'd have to go out my way to change
Once I did it to try I just kept doing it, now they are shortcuts so I'd have to go out my way to change
The white ones make it harder to read the details when they're miniscule, I think. I never use emoticons anyway. Don't really like them.
I always just use yellow. It just seems extra to me to go out of my way to show that I'm white, like, I get it people are proud of their heritage or themselves or whatever, it doesn't make me side eye anyone that does use them, but I could not give less of a shit. If it's like a slack post at work and someone's got a thumbs up there, I don't care what color it is I just click it to add a little 1 and move on.
I actually don't use emoji. I use the stickers in my chat app, which is LINE.
The are far superior to garbage generic looking emoji.
Most/many of them are anthropomorphic animals and such.
The are far superior to garbage generic looking emoji.
Most/many of them are anthropomorphic animals and such.
Yeah, I kinda wish I could use my cute lizard and irate sumo wrestler LINE stickers on other social media instead.
It's the default colour and it's not a skin colour that exists.
Fuck yeah I do. For all my life, everything defaulted to white or white approximations (yellow being white in this case, largely due to the Simpsons), so the moment I got the ability to diverge from said defaultness and represent myself, I did it. 👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲👨🏾🦲
Nah. I don't see the point, if I'm being honest. The default emoji shade of yellow isn't supposed to be an approximation of any ethnic group's particular skin color, nobody's skin is actually that color. The neutrality of the default yellow, and the fact that it can represent anyone or anything, is why I don't care to change it. They're just emoji.
