[xbpx]

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate and understanding.

Highlighted beyond irony by comments like this.

[Findecanor]

Nobody has a light yellow colour. It was chosen so as to not to refer to any ethnicity in particular.

BTW. If your skin actually has turned yellow then you should seek the nearest hospital emergency room ASAP, because it can be a sign of acute liver failure.

[Sharlin]

Like another commenter said in a sibling thread, yellow is still a non-dark color, and yellow characters represent white people in cartoons like The Simpsons.

[jononomo]

Why do you think a yellow emoji represents a white skin color?

[kemayo]

Have you watched the Simpsons? There's some powerful cultural baggage here.

Anyway, it certainly implies not-dark skin...

[jononomo]

You may as well say it implies not-white skin as well. The only thing it implies in regard to skin color is bright yellow.

[Eisenstein]

Then why is Apu brown?

[jononomo]

Why are tomatoes red?