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Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by dagmx »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #31
johnofthesea wrote: post #21

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I use Emojis for my gardening site as icons for taxonomical families. So I would welcome some berries and maybe more vegetables.

Have you heard of this thing called an image?

Emoji are zero cost resources for websites on most devices and have the benefit of matching the users expectations of iconography across the system, not to mention being accessible by default.

It’s really a win win of size reduction, consistency and accessibility.

The only competitive systems are something like font-awesome icons or SFSymbols. The latter isn’t available to sites afaik though.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by dagmx »

lapcat wrote: post #53
pflenker wrote: post #10

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You are comparing the benefits of the „good old times“ from the drawbacks of the present. Drawbacks from the past include that the number of things you could express with ascii emojis is very limited, anything that goes beyond the usual palette of emotions required explanation and context, and several old school emotes or single line ascii art require a monospaced font to be rendered in an understandable way. Another…

> You are comparing the benefits of the „good old times“ from the drawbacks of the present. Drawbacks from the past include that the number of things you could express with ascii emojis is very limited, anything that goes beyond the usual palette of emotions required explanation and context Here's a crazy idea: how about people use words to describe their feelings? Or is that too "old school"?

Pictograms predate words for expression. So the “oldest school” would be no words at all.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by xbpx »

vasco wrote: post #39
dexwell wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate and understanding.

Highlighted beyond irony by comments like this.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by jononomo »

xbpx wrote: post #63
vasco wrote: post #39

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Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate…

Why do you think a yellow emoji represents a white skin color?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by kemayo »

vasco wrote: post #39
dexwell wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Speaking as a person with light-colored skin, the default-yellow emoji still basically look like me. Or, a version of me that's on the Simpsons, at least.

I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience. I'd be using these symbols that were supposed to represent me / my-reactions, but which very much didn't look like me. There'd be this pervasive sense that I was not included, not important enough to be the one represented.

That would kinda suck. I don't have to experience that, and I'm happy to have emoji set up so that people who don't look like me also don't have to experience it.

Put another way, would you care if the default emoji color was changed to be dark-skinned?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by kemayo »

jononomo wrote: post #64
xbpx wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate…

Why do you think a yellow emoji represents a white skin color?

Have you watched the Simpsons? There's some powerful cultural baggage here.

Anyway, it certainly implies not-dark skin...

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by kemayo »

realusername wrote: post #49
vasco wrote: post #39

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Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

I also don't get it, it should be a system wide setting and not something the sender specifies, I don't see any point in having some additional info not representing the meaning.

There is meaning, though -- it's specifically saying something about the person sending it and how they chose to present themselves.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by Findecanor »

xbpx wrote: post #63
vasco wrote: post #39

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Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate…

Nobody has a light yellow colour. It was chosen so as to not to refer to any ethnicity in particular.

BTW. If your skin actually has turned yellow then you should seek the nearest hospital emergency room ASAP, because it can be a sign of acute liver failure.

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