[peter422]

Why is yellow the “neutral” color? Why not black, or red, or white?

Letting people pick whatever color seems more empowering to me.

[Miraste]

Because no one is bright yellow irl unless they're a few days from dying of cirrhosis.

[peter422]

Yellow is obviously much closer to lighter skin color than darker skin colors.

[daniellarusso]

I always thought it was because of The Simpsons, but going as far back as the Tracy Ullman show, so that could have been an influence as far back as 1987.

[wonderwonder]

How is it empowering? How long do you think a white employee could post with black colored emojis before someone said something?

[wreath]

empowering for what exactly?