[graemep]

There are too many, and there are a ridiculous number of variants. Why do we need options for the skin colour of an emoji? How on earth does it change the meaning of a smiley or a face palm? Faces with different hair colours too! Clocks with hands at different times?

[neogodless]

Which skin color should all emoji be?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0a/e5/36/0ae536826bb1cf643e6f05066...

[KptMarchewa]

Original bright yellow was a good candidate, since actually no one looks like this.

[F3nd0]

Why should skin colour be specified at all? Why not leave it as an implementation detail? Yellow is the popular default choice, but it could very well be green, blue, pink, or anything really.

[magguzu]

Why are the Simpsons yellow, yet the black guy in the show is black?

There's no "neutral" rather its just "white without specifying it"

[graemep]

That is your perception. What is neutral is cultural, maybe personal.

I grew up in two multi-cultural places so do not have the same default perceptions.

[F3nd0]

Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?

[tehjoker]

why not let people just pick which one they want to use

[F3nd0]

I guess they could just support custom colours, but that seems like a needless complication—much like skin tones themselves.

[graemep]

Just use a font with the colours you like?

[graemep]

Indigenous is a tricky concept in many place. Can you tell me who that map defines as the indigenous people of the following places:

England

Japan

Turkey

Sri Lanka

South Africa

[normie3000]

This map doesn't seem accurate.