> The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.

I come from a country where almost nobody is white, and pretty much everyone is happily using the yellow emojis.

As a not-white person I hate the skin colored emojis. I find them to be a ridiculous waste of human thought, effort, and time.

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aspect0545 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think it makes sense that in a country where the majority is not white the yellow emoji is picked to represent the majority.

	▲	philipallstar 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		So you'd think white people in a minority white country would not use the standard emoji? I doubt anyone would care.

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anon1395 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might want to watch this. https://youtu.be/2ltWVmsbJxc

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bryanrasmussen 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

the problem is that some countries have majority skin colors and significant minority skin colors, and the majority has not been nice to the minority, so in those countries it's an issue and they sort of export the problem to everybody else via a process of memetic transferal.