Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?
loomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHistorically the original emojis were ascii so the symbol had the color of text on the electronic device where typed
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And so on
lorty@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Those were called emoticons back in the day.
loomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same same
emoji became a thing because the Japanese wanted pictures aka kanji style representation of the ascii expressions. In any regards OG skin tone was average Japanese