When using emojis, do you select your skin tone?
Iโm not race-baiting, Iโm legit curious. I usually change the skin tone to what closely resembles my own. If, for example, Iโm sending someone a thumbs up, Iโll send ๐๐ผ instead of ๐. I have some friends who always stick to the yellow emojis. Makes me wonder if Iโm being non-woke by making a distinction.
Any thoughts?
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 18 | 02/23/2021 |
Are there any white male celebrities for whom a yellow emoji would be appropriate?
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 2 | 02/23/2021 |
The yellow hand looks like a dish glove, so I use my skin tone when I give a thumbs up. That's the only time I select a skin tone.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 4 | 02/23/2021 |
Yes, you are race-baiting, OP. If you are not, you don't need to be defensive from the beginning.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 7 | 02/23/2021 |
OP: non-woke? Yea, your aren't race-baiting for sure!!
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 9 | 02/23/2021 |
Iโm white. I have an Asian boyfriend. I have black friends. I always select the right skin tone when I text with them. I think itโs more fun like this.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 10 | 02/23/2021 |
I do on Zoom (for the clapping hand.)
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 11 | 02/23/2021 |
I hate it when white people use the brown-skinned emoji. My partner knows a guy who does that and it just seems so contrived.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 12 | 02/23/2021 |
R12, perhaps he tans well?
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 13 | 02/23/2021 |
I donโt need emojis to over-share my feelings so Iโve decided itโs a fad. Plus, I thought the brown hands implied something other than ethnicity.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 14 | 02/23/2021 |
They don't make an emoji pale enough for me -unless you count the ghosts. I just use whatever the default is. I wouldn't want people to think I spent time thinking about the color of my emoji...
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 15 | 02/23/2021 |
I stick with the yellow (default).
Safer that way.
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 17 | 02/23/2021 |
Op so you are white, brown or yellow? I know thats not a black emoji, or is it?
by ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ | reply 18 | 02/23/2021 |