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Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji

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If we'd just kept to the round yellow faces that represent everyone and no one in particular we wouldn't be in this mess :)

Just imagine how much man-hour, money, and energy have been allocated to actually turning emojis into a race and gender problem. And next to that is all the mental overhead for people when they want to use these emojis with different skin tones and genders these days.

Truely we've became a race of bureaucrats and "artists". Unfit to do any productive work.

What about those suffering Jaundice?

True, but there is the family emoji which is a man, woman, child emoji joined by a UTF ZWJ. That wouldn't be possible then.

Not even yellow. Monochrome. The characters shouldn't have any color specified. There's no need for a separate character for black A, yellow A, green A. Why should there be any for emoji? All of them were originally monochrome. A separate markup language (e.g. CSS) could be used to assign them any color or style.

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji

https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m...

https://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/Emoji_Interpretat...

Feels like an overly dressed article for what amounts to "Google now allows haircuts for emojis". Also I had a laugh at the swimmer emoji. I guess they could have a different hair style under their swim cap.

Tangentially related, Does anyone else have a problem seeing these graphically dense emojis? I find myself always squinting for anything other than the iconic emojis. It's pretty telling that even the article itself has to blow them up to show the details.

I found the only emojis I use are on Telegram as a shortcut to find a sticker I want. I've never seen an emoji larger than 64x64px anywhere outside of source documents.

99.9% of people, at most, use the basic emojis if any at all. In my book, this is just for Google to get "woke" points.

Am I missing something? These don’t seem to have anything to do with “gender fluid”, which to my knowledge means someone whose gender is not static (and not even necessarily non-binary).

These just seem like emojis without assigned or assignable gender. If anything, this is the gender analogue to race’s Simpson yellow skin.

How's Apu fit into the "yellow is neutral" thought, here?

You'll note they removed Apu from the show.

Yeah, seems like a bad choice in the headline, especially given the long quote about how they're specifically try not to assign any gender identity to those.

Also found the three-aside display interesting in that I hadn't noticed before how many examples really only differ in haircut, nothing else.

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