[kemayo]

Speaking as a person with light-colored skin, the default-yellow emoji still basically look like me. Or, a version of me that's on the Simpsons, at least.

I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience. I'd be using these symbols that were supposed to represent me / my-reactions, but which very much didn't look like me. There'd be this pervasive sense that I was not included, not important enough to be the one represented.

That would kinda suck. I don't have to experience that, and I'm happy to have emoji set up so that people who don't look like me also don't have to experience it.

Put another way, would you care if the default emoji color was changed to be dark-skinned?

[xdennis]

> I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience.

And the change is literally skin deep. They added skin color, but not racial features. The "black man" emoji just looks like a white guy with dark skin.

Imagine if I was a dwarf. I'd feel a bit alienated that all emojis are of tall people. Shouldn't there be a dwarf modifier for every emoji: dwarf man facepalming, dwarf woman shrugging, dwarf man bride, &c

If you felt yellow is too white, they should have changed emojis to magenta or something. Adding variants makes them unusable.

[Eisenstein]

Let's make them all dark brown then. I'm sure you wouldn't object.

[xdennis]

Seems fair. All the initial homo sapiens had black skin, so I guess it would be more representative.

[asddubs]

maybe the old forums had it right, and we should have gone with green or blue

[realusername]

That could just be a system wide setting to change all the emojis to appear how you want it to.

There's no need to send the colour to fix this issue.