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Nice little Daft Punk easter egg in the panel with the "Nothing Found" example page ( https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics ), and the ending statement "We are humaaan after all." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_After_All )
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If you ever feel that you need to know the skin color of a project's author in order to judge it properly then you are the one with the problem.
That's often true, but sometimes there is a cultural context. Knowing what kind of environment the author hails from casts light on interpretation more often than it does not, in fact. In this case, knowing that the author was not a Nigerian (for example) showed that the theory that "there are no light skin tones because the artist is not used to seeing them," is false.
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That's often true, but sometimes there is a cultural context. Knowing what kind of environment the author hails from casts light on interpretation more often than it does not, in fact. In this case, knowing that the author was not a Nigerian (for example) showed that the theory that "there are no light skin tones because the artist is not used to seeing them," is false.
Why do you need a theory to explain the skin tones? Why does it matter at all? What is so triggering for you about a web page without a depiction of a white person?
I'm not sure if it does, but the topic was being discussed so I joined in.
>What is so triggering for you about a web page without a depiction of a white person?
I'm not sure if "triggering" is the right word to use, but although I used to think that representation didn't matter (a la skin tone variants in emojis) I now realize that it's a nice gesture to be included in art asset packs and marketing material. Next time someone talks about how they added twelve different versions of a thumbs up asset I'll roll my eyes a little less hard. ;)
OT: The word "Humaaans" makes me think of the Ferengi from Star Trek. E.g. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63716/why-do-the-f...
"If you ever get close to a humaaaan..."
where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…
The average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.
Something's fascinating to me. Clearly there's a lot of diversity. But there also isn't. I don't associate with any of it. Not because I'm a green space monster. But where's the potbellied, grizzled 55 year old welder? Or the "I hate kale, more bacon please" mother of three? Everyone looks so... Chic and young and modern and... Silicon Valley. Is it the art style? Is that the point? Is that what the robotic "HUMAAAAN…
I love this effort. But sort of wish it wasnt just a drop-box site and rather a site where others could contribute and tag-index their contributions. This way, you could contribute the persona you're missing.
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Indeed. Clipart is low culture.
Low culture is necessary and perfectly fine. Still, a lot of work went into releasing these free generic illustrations. Also, the more free clip art is available and used everywhere the quicker it will go out of style.
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How do you know the woman on the splash page isn't a mother of three who hates kale? I'm serious. What does that look like to you?
He's saying someone who is very overweight, I assume. I felt he was saying it in a diplomatic fashion?
Nice! This came at just the right time for me too. I find the general attitude in this comment section curious, though; lots of people are arguing about the skin tone choice which is notably brown. Yet I feel that if it were lighter in shade, there would be much less grumbling and criticism about not including every single possible body shape?
The author left out white people, and since he's white himself and from California the "he just doesn't live around white people" explanation that I was originally going for can't be right. If he had left out a people group that he didn't see very often (if he lived in Nigeria that could be white people, if he lived in Norway that could be Native Americans) then nobody would be upset. But all signs point to this bein…
I find it unsettling that people here try to read too much into this choice, it was released a month ago on Designer News and there's not a single mention about it:
https://www.designernews.co/stories/98999-humaaans-a-library...
where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…