Gboard update lets you set your emoji skin tone with one tap
The update is rolling out now on Android.
I prefer the Simpsons skin tone.
Or the jaundiced from severe alcoholism skin tone
I'll set that as default
They should've just stuck with the yellow emojis. It was quite universal and inclusive in my opinion
I do.
But the skin tone thingy matters to some people and I fully support that, too.
Honestly, I don't. Because the yellow one was universal. There was no "I'm not represented" because nobody was represented. NOW, we have something for people to bitch about based on a perceived group. Now we're gonna get "Yellow is for Asians" and other racist shit. I'm fully of the mindset that online, you should be genderless, colorless, classless (I'm already that), etc.
Once you start pushing those things into your communication online, it's just another reason for people to discriminate. We need less reasons to discriminate online, not more.
Honestly Internet Rule #30 wasn't so much claiming the internet was a 'male only' space, so much as a warning that people injecting their gender, or color into a conversation were looking to use that as leverage somehow.
As much as possible the lack of these classifications allows more level-headed conversations to happen that wouldn't in the real world, due to hormones, silly social expectations, and other dumb shit.
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Not enabled for me yet.