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Yeah this makes much more sense. Implementers can localise if they want but skin colour isn't that important.

I should totally be able to long press on dog emoji for a breed selector though.

This ignores the context that emojis came from. All of the people depicted were light skinned. Emojis didn't start neutral and gain ethnic skin colors. They started light-skinned and gained a neutral color -- and the choice to select other skin colors.

Just use the default yellow colour then.

> (don't care which)

> I don't want to express "a black man smiling"

Which is it?

Green would be fine.

Are you deliberately avoiding the rest of what he wrote? The point is that he doesn't care to involve color at all, having only one color would remove the "it's color X smiling" choice.