Comment on Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?
EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 months agoThey often have cameos on the show by famous people. The white people are always yellow. Yellow = white in the Simpsons, very clearly.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 months ago
Ok, cool. But we talked about unicode smileys.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Understood. And I’m pointing out an example that makes it obvious how yellow is clearly white adjacent.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 months ago
In a fictive show. Except if you’re arguing that Simpsons is part of US culture. But Unicode is international.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I understand that it’s fiction. But they choose yellow for white people because it’s white adjacent, and it stands out. No one is confused that these are white people. No one watches the Simpsons and is honesty confused as to what race they are supposed to be.