Nobody uses the white emojis

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Adding skin colour was dumb to begin with. Bright yellow was just perfect for everyone you know.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ish, but somehow it ends up that yellow is white people.

    look at the Simpsons for example, the default is yellow, but other skin colours are their normal colours, like black/asian.

    same happened with legos.

    it’s weird because any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default, rather than for everyone.

    might be because I’m racist. but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just use the yellow ones. No need to add useless skin colour to emojis.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    We are all one in the Simpsons

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t really see any reason to not use the default yellow, frankly

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dito. It also feels more inclusive since noone is yellow (unless you have liver failure)

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The simpsons

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    • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree, as a white person, that yellow seems more neutral. But, then people who are slightly not white are always eager to switch. I also feel some people have a skewed idea of how brown they actually are and will pick a shade or two darker than their real skin tone.

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    • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Juan dice

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• halvar@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s funny i only know one person that uses these and he is basically a fascist

  also i know this single person who is white but uses the black thumbsup for some reason

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• helmet91@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use them, because that’s my color. It’s just a touch of personalisation. I won’t paint myself yellow in my profile pictures either.

  Normally I’d ask why this is such a big deal, but I’m afraid I know. And no, I’m not fascist, not racist, and not taking any pride in skin color in any way (if anything, I’d be rather ashamed because of those white people who think they’re superior in any way). In an ideal world everyone should be able to show themselves as who they are, and I’m holding myself to that, regardless of how sick the world is.

  You should be able to use any color, whether it’s your true identity or you pick it for privacy reasons. If someone harasses you just because of skin color, that piece of shit garbage motherfucker must be banned from the internet, possibly from public spaces too.

  Damn this triggered me so bad.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey, it was descriptive, not prescriptive (nobody uses them Vs nobody should use them). There was no attack (and I’ve never met anyone who would say such a thing), don’t worry! 😊

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• Bunbury@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use them and the yellow ones interchangeably. They happen to be the same color as my skin which is why I sometimes use them. But I’m not attached enough to go looking for them when the generic yellow is easier.

  I don’t use them with strangers though. Mainly because I don’t feel like randomly announcing my skin color to people I have never met and will never meet when it adds nothing at all to the conversation.

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• __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My mom switched to them recently. It felt vaguely racist, I don’t know

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  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you feel that way when your non white friends did it though?

    I see some whites do it but it started after the non whites started picking the proper shade.

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    • seralth@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All colored emojis feel racist to me. Even the white ones.

      Adding race to something that didn’t have it before is by definition racist. Because all your doing is creating racial divides where there was none before.

      It also reinforces the original color as the cultural normal. Instead of it just being generic.

      So yellow went from being just a thing to bring white. Cause now black or tan are “other” then default.

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    • violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use them after a POC friend said they thought it was cool when white folks use them and i've never heard anyone complain about it before this thread. It never occurred to me before that but i have many kinds of privilege so i'll make any simple accommodation like that I can.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Personally, I did a little bit, but then I looked up all the emojis available and my eyes glazed over and went insane for a moment.

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    • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, and that’s the part that makes it feel weird

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Emojis started off yellow and never really implied any skin colour.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just like Lego

    I mean look at this cursed Michael Strahan Minifig:

    Image

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• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use them because I want to push back against the assumption that white is the default. If not-white people pick a skin tone and white people stay yellow, then yellow gets read as white, not color-neutral.

  And yes, it felt so awkward to choose the white emoji at first.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the same reason I stick with yellow. I’m not comfortable sharing my race in the wild, yellow is the unifier.

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    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair! Yellow as anonymizer makes sense. I tend to use emojis in forms of communication where people already know me, like on discord and professional channels.

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• bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t need people knowing I’m white, I have a reputation to uphold

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ꒳ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾ superiority tho

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Kaomoji my beloved (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

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    • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      മ◡മ of course its the best

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• Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use them. I’m not a character from The Simpsons.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  because it doesn’t matter what colour they are.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t use any, black or white. I ain’t racist and have words.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because emojis are stupid?

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  • johsny@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    👎🏿

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🤫

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