A couple people at work use the white/black emojis instead of the yellow. I don't know why, but it always seems weird to me that you took the extra time to select your race.

I always feel a little weird in a work chat when folks have gone out of there way to select their exact skin tone and I'm just like, yeah yellow will do.

🦵🏻

Because yellow is already the default for white.

The link is to an interesting half hour video essay by Lily Alexandre on this topic.

I was using the white skinned people emojis until it was changed and made the shirt color the same across all skin colors. I just liked the purple shirt more than green. Which is now on the separate female version emoji. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷‍♀️

They're also way the fuck down in the big list and have to be long tapped to change. I didn't even know you could do that for a hella long time.

I use some of the white ones. 👍🏻👎🏻👌🏻 All the rest are yellow.