Yellow emojis - do you guys still use them?
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LOL 
Dowie 4 years ahead of the curve on this one - using the yellow emoji is now "white privilege"
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors?
Dowie 4 years ahead of the curve on this one - using the yellow emoji is now "white privilege"
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors?
Ok I know this is 4 years old, but...
...??? You do know that referring to East Asians as yellow is a slur, right? I mean, seriously, wtf?!
Caporegime
If Anyone i emoji begins a complex conversation about race and skin tone i will delete and block them...
Caporegime
its referring to the Simpsons dont panic.
The fact that there are multiple “skin colours” for symbols designed to assist text communication, would suggest we are in a bit of a pickle and moving the wrong way with racism.
Why would you need to display your skin colour when trying to show your sentence is intended with a “sad
“ tone.
edit: dammit, replied to a necro’thread seriously… [non race-specific sad smiley]
Why would you need to display your skin colour when trying to show your sentence is intended with a “sad
“ tone.edit: dammit, replied to a necro’thread seriously… [non race-specific sad smiley]
Man of Honour
I didn't even know you could change them.
Well they can **** off. I'll keep using whatever emoji's I feel like. I use yellow because it's the default and doesn't represent any race.LOL
Dowie 4 years ahead of the curve on this one - using the yellow emoji is now "white privilege"
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors?
I'm extremely surprised it wasn't.
The posters in this thread must have been blissfully ignorant thinking @dowie 's point was essentially "should I stop using the rainbow emoji because it's reserved for homosexuals?" when it was actually akin to "should I stop using the monkey emojis because they're reserved for 'black people'?"
How that wasn't noticed is mind boggling and concerning.
Man of Honour
I would imagine that people use yellow because it's the default.
Some people (many I would guess) probably don't even know you can long press and change the colour of some emojis.
Some people (many I would guess) probably don't even know you can long press and change the colour of some emojis.
This whole subject shows how society as slumped backwards. We now have acceptable forms of racism, and now racial segregation.
When I look at the pictures in the US in the old days were it says "whites only" or "blacks only" do millennials now think it's acceptable?
When I look at the pictures in the US in the old days were it says "whites only" or "blacks only" do millennials now think it's acceptable?
Soldato
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The old memory is a bit blurry, but we used to quite like emojis in the last century
Do we? Care to provide an example?
Are you implying it's not racist to refer to East Asians as yellow?
Soldato
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I knew there were black emojis but had no idea there were white ones. I just use the yellow ones lol. What a world...
Caporegime
I'm not ******* sad enough to care what colour my emojis are. Just use the default one. If your identity is that tied up to your race you need shaking. Who gives a crap.
LOL
Dowie 4 years ahead of the curve on this one - using the yellow emoji is now "white privilege"
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors?
I've read that about 5 times and I still don't understand what they're trying to say.