I have never thought of emoji as having any particular skin colour, until this recent trend to make skin colour selectable.
Emoticons and emoji have traditionally been displayed as yellow cirlces with large faces. White emojis have been the exception, not the rule. I have never had a problem with being represented by a character with Jaundice (a medical condition turning your skin yellow).
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I have never thought of emoji as having any particular skin colour, until this recent trend to make skin colour selectable.
Emoticons and emoji have traditionally been displayed as yellow cirlces with large faces. White emojis have been the exception, not the rule. I have never had a problem with being represented by a character with Jaundice (a medical condition turning your skin yellow).
If your skin color is already represented you have the privilege of not having to worry about inclusivity of others being represented.
However, I'm not sure this applies to you since I'm not sure what race you are.
Not at all true. Most emoji implementations (Japanese mobile providers, Apple) used white faces.