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
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
I don’t see why it’s weird lol. The entire point of the skin tone update was to give people more customization for basic, cartoon expressions. I would be more weirded out by people if they told me they felt weird about using their skin tone cause they’re too white
Since you're going around saying "I don't get it". The thing here is that it's a drop down menu, I guess. If white was the menu default, then that's what white people would use, but yellow in an emoticon context is already coded as white (despite the broader cultural context where it's East Asian), so going out of your way to pick a more explicitly white tone is weird. You say that the purpose is for "expression" and then deny that it expresses anything. My question is why would someone feel the need to express more explicitly that they are white?
This doesn't matter, but if you showed me a lengthy text message and asked me about a specific use of "can't" over "cannot", I could probably give you an assessment of something like that as well if you really wanted one. No one here thinks this is an important issue, but they are attempting to articulate an opinion in response to the particular claim made.
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
deleted by creator
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
I don’t see why it’s weird lol. The entire point of the skin tone update was to give people more customization for basic, cartoon expressions. I would be more weirded out by people if they told me they felt weird about using their skin tone cause they’re too white
Since you're going around saying "I don't get it". The thing here is that it's a drop down menu, I guess. If white was the menu default, then that's what white people would use, but yellow in an emoticon context is already coded as white (despite the broader cultural context where it's East Asian), so going out of your way to pick a more explicitly white tone is weird. You say that the purpose is for "expression" and then deny that it expresses anything. My question is why would someone feel the need to express more explicitly that they are white?
This doesn't matter, but if you showed me a lengthy text message and asked me about a specific use of "can't" over "cannot", I could probably give you an assessment of something like that as well if you really wanted one. No one here thinks this is an important issue, but they are attempting to articulate an opinion in response to the particular claim made.