I’m asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don’t really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don’t naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it’s seen as implicitly identifying or requesting white privilege.

  • Is there a significance to using skin-tone emojis, and if so, what is it?

  • Assuming there might be a racial movement attached to the first question, how does my use of emojis, both Simpsons yellow and light-skin, interact with or contribute to that?

Note: I am an autistic white Latino-American cis-gendered man that aims to be socially just.

Autistic text stim: blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 blekh 😝 !!

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    I’m a guy and default to use the female 🤷most of the time because that’s what my phone gives me on some apps

    • triarius
      14·
      6 months ago

      I think that one 🤷 is meant to be gender neutral. 🤷‍♀️ & 🤷‍♂️ are less ambiguous.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      cishet male, I use yellow for face emojis and yellow gender neutral people for physical language standins.

      I want to represent the mood, not myself.

      • Noodle07@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Exactly! I guess I grew up with MSN so I’m used to having few emojis with specific mood rather trying to match myself