• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never seen anyone use anything but 👍

    This feels like an attempt by Big Emoji to get people to actually use the other ones

    Not like us here, with our prodigious amounts of quality, original emoji

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Some of my poc friends use the brown ones. I wouldn’t give them a hard time about it. But speaking as someone who is white passing using the white skin emojis would be too weird

      • Smeagolicious [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Just seems like an extra step for emoji I already barely use to be honest. Occasionally use like 👍🏽 or smth, but I mostly just hit the default simpsons one. In any case it’s a very weird thing to police shrug-outta-hecks

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      my mom is brown, and uses the brown ones, but the brown one is way darker than she is and so it just seems kinda off. It’s like, mom, your skin tone is Halle Berry, not Grace Jones

      (i’d never tell her that tho)