An analogy, I think it was a stupid decision to make emoji distinctions by skin colour. Why? It exactly undermines the entire purpose of having done so for inclusivity by putting even more emphasis on differences in skin colour. Yellow was perfect because nobody is yellow so it simultaneously represents everyone an no one, except for sick people who are jaundiced.
Well goddamn, the history and backlash behind 🙂 totally came out of left field. I knew I should’ve used black and white Unicode emoticons instead; ☺ ☻ *. However, I stick to my point though, and at 18:39 the interviewee pretty much agrees.
Why Are Emoji Yellow? by Lily Alexandre 33 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vio9Yr0x4YY
Well goddamn, the history and backlash behind 🙂 totally came out of left field. I knew I should’ve used black and white Unicode emoticons instead; ☺ ☻ *. However, I stick to my point though, and at 18:39 the interviewee pretty much agrees.
* In case one of these shows as an emoji, the intention is to render these as non-emoji black and white Unicode glyphs:
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