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 10 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 an hour 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 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?

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tehjoker 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	F3nd0 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess they could just support custom colours, but that seems like a needless complication—much like skin tones themselves.