I feel this is like saying the Simpsons, and most of Springfield, aren’t supposed to be white because their skin is yellow.
It’s no surprise the default emoji color is so close to white skin, and it’s no surprise that some people feel a lack of representation by this.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Maybe you’d feel differently if your country wasn’t 90+% homogeneous with a light skin tone
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There are no yellow skinned people where I live
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It’s still pretty light if we’re considering the array of skin tones that are throughout humanity. If you weren’t Finnish, but instead African or Indian or South American for example, maybe you wouldn’t feel that yellow was representative of you and your people. Saying yellow is fine for everyone because you feel it’s fine isn’t taking into account the other billions of opinions in the world.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I quess we need a billion more variations of those emojis then. Lets keep paying more attention to the skin color of people. That seems like a great idea.