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by cubefox 1517 days ago
They removed emojis with human faces. Likely they were afraid of pushback of activists who would say the faces are now all white (on white background) and therefore racist.
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Or¹ they started with the older Noto Emoji which already had the blobs because they were the Android default until ~2017. And some genuinely prefer the abstract/cutesy/less-human forms.

[1] far more likely unless you are determined to be offended if a white human isn't the default representation of everything everywhere everywhen.