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neogodless 15 hours ago

Which skin color should all emoji be?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/e5/36/0ae536826bb1cf643e6f05066...

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KptMarchewa 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Original bright yellow was a good candidate, since actually no one looks like this.

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F3nd0 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why should skin colour be specified at all? Why not leave it as an implementation detail? Yellow is the popular default choice, but it could very well be green, blue, pink, or anything really.

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magguzu 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why are the Simpsons yellow, yet the black guy in the show is black?

There's no "neutral" rather its just "white without specifying it"

	▲	graemep 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That is your perception. What is neutral is cultural, maybe personal. I grew up in two multi-cultural places so do not have the same default perceptions.
	▲	F3nd0 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?

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tehjoker 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

why not let people just pick which one they want to use

	▲	F3nd0 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess they could just support custom colours, but that seems like a needless complication—much like skin tones themselves.

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graemep 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indigenous is a tricky concept in many place. Can you tell me who that map defines as the indigenous people of the following places:

England

Japan

Turkey

Sri Lanka

South Africa

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normie3000 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This map doesn't seem accurate.