I think it's great. Now, instead of using neutral, non-human emoji, users can blow political correctness out of the water by using them to depict every kind of slur.
It should work just as the creators intended! ;) (well, maybe it will after all. Pretty soon we can start rounding up and arresting anyone who dares employ an emoji in an "insensitive" manner.)
What in the world is this craziness. Don't tell me that in the future phone will discern the user skin color and automatically shows the emoji with appropriate color?
Why, exactly, is that pathetic? Does the idea of giving someone an emoticon that looks like their skintone truly offend you? Does the idea of appealing to the majority of cellphone purchasers that look different from you just rile you all up?
Please. Expound. Tell us how emojis with brown skintones are truly pathetic.
First of all there is the fact that Unicode wasn't designed to do something like that, so just from a technical standpoint its a bloated, poor hack.
Secondly, it's a gesture that will appeal to- and appease a small, elitist (mostly white) group of far left, cultish ideologues that like to call themselves "anti-racists" or "social justice organizers".
Many of them make a quite good living teaching/propagandizing subjects like "gender studies" or "African studies" (which aren't to be confused with actual study of, for example: Sub-Saharan Africa, but is more of imparting a specific, pseudo-Marxist worldview) and have come up with a sociological theory called "critical race theory".
In critical race theory, society isn't seen as a whole, instead it divides the population into little groups whose members are supposed to think and act the same way, and for gods sake can't have their feelings hurt.
And it is this agenda, that is being pushed with the new "diverse" smileys.
Has there for example been any major outcry about representative emoticons from the very people that are supposed to benefit? The Indians, Africans, Asians etc.?
Nope. They're perfectly happy using general, universal yellow emoticons like everybody else.
How do we know this? Well first of all, unlike the social justice jihadis pushing this, I actually associate with people with a variety of skin colors, and have yet to talk with one who considers this an actual problem, or gives more than a shrug about the new diverse emoticons.
And secondly, India, China and some African countries are some of the biggest users of messaging apps and emoticons. Look at the apps and emoticons they use, and note how they mostly use the same yellow, universal emoticons that people in the US and Europe use.
TLDR: Universal, yellow emoticons are fine. Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons. The only people that do care about it, are elitist SJW crazies, and obscure hypocritical Maoist cults.
"Universal, yellow emoticons are fine. Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons. The only people that do care about it, are elitist SJW crazies, and obscure hypocritical Maoist cults." is what he actually said but I'm glad your imagination is active enough to distort it into something complete different.
"Look at the apps and emoticons they use, and note how they mostly use the same yellow, universal emoticons that people in the US and Europe use."
Since we've only had Simpsons yellow skin tone emoticons (since they've changed from punctuation to full color graphics), of course that's all we've used. This is a social experiment of "Build it, and they will come" with regard to colors. Since people tend to not know what they want until they see it, without this experiment we would never know. It might belly-flop completely, but no one is forced anyone to use them.
Now I can express even more things that happens to me in a quick convenient way.
For instance, if I'm on vacation and get a sunburn I can quickly inform everyone I know by sending a red male face with my hair color attached to it or if I ate something bad and need to visit the toilet often I can tell the world with a brown faced emoticon.
Oops - the CEO of a certain large tech company with a fruit emblem wouldn't fall into that narrow category of those whom this will "appeal to and appease," would he?
Fucking hell, did this comedy post fall out of a laughably shitty subreddit or was this an ironic post? There's no way someone would unironically post, "Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons", as if you personally know and get to speak for a population of billions.
Also nobody would unironically make the argument that "brown people" must not care about other color emoticons because they don't use them... when other color emoticons don't even fucking exist for most users.
Holy hell. This is truly a special post in its level of completely, unabated horrible white mansplained horseshit.
Is it a comedy post? It seems to make perfect sense. People have been using Emoticons for decades, and the majority of people with brains comprehend that they are not meant to be 100% serious. Most people outside of the Simpsons don't have yellow skin. If I wanted to send an accurate depiction of myself smiling I'd send a picture. I would imagine these will be used almost exclusively in a racist way, it's not been thought through particularly well and is in and of itself a stupidly racist idea. What could be more inclusive than a single icon for all races? Clearly the invention of white people apologising for the possibility of any offence being caused.
That's not a swipe at Apple btw it's a swipe at anybody using the hideous word 'Mansplained' which manages (ironically) to be patronising to nearly everybody and make the user of the term seem like a collossal douche. "Douche" is at least gender-unspecific.
Yes it makes perfect sense if you are completely out of touch with fuckin reality, congrats on that.
By the way, not everyone is yellow on the Simpsons. Guess who ISN'T yellow? If that's really your fallback argument for keeping all emoticons with a skintone that doesn't represent billions of people, goddamn.
Adds the ability to report junk messages directly from the Messages app Adds the ability to filter out iMessages that are not sent by your contacts -finally
There is nothing to be glad about this country disgusts me for being so gay! Whats next they will show in emoji big dicks and pussys? I'm not mean but I cant respect someone that loves other persons shit.
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PlugPulled - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Yay.Michael Bay - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
"emphasis on improving the diversity among emoji characters"Holy shit, are they experimenting with just how pathetic can they get?
Maltz - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
It's not just an Apple thing, it's a Unicode thing.http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html#Di...
Michael Bay - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Even worse.Wolfpup - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Why? Sounds like a good thing at worst.DCide - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
I think it's great. Now, instead of using neutral, non-human emoji, users can blow political correctness out of the water by using them to depict every kind of slur.It should work just as the creators intended! ;)
(well, maybe it will after all. Pretty soon we can start rounding up and arresting anyone who dares employ an emoji in an "insensitive" manner.)
webxl - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
"It should work just as the creators intended! ;)"As a student of economics and observing the world around me, I just love that comment. In some facets of society, intentions are all that matter.
WorldWithoutMadness - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
What in the world is this craziness.Don't tell me that in the future phone will discern the user skin color and automatically shows the emoji with appropriate color?
SigmundEXactos - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Wait, someone with a nick of 'Michael Bay' is calling someone else pathetic? The irony.Cygni - Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - link
Why, exactly, is that pathetic? Does the idea of giving someone an emoticon that looks like their skintone truly offend you? Does the idea of appealing to the majority of cellphone purchasers that look different from you just rile you all up?Please. Expound. Tell us how emojis with brown skintones are truly pathetic.
V900 - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Allow me to respond...First of all there is the fact that Unicode wasn't designed to do something like that, so just from a technical standpoint its a bloated, poor hack.
Secondly, it's a gesture that will appeal to- and appease a small, elitist (mostly white) group of far left, cultish ideologues that like to call themselves "anti-racists" or "social justice organizers".
Many of them make a quite good living teaching/propagandizing subjects like "gender studies" or "African studies" (which aren't to be confused with actual study of, for example: Sub-Saharan Africa, but is more of imparting a specific, pseudo-Marxist worldview) and have come up with a sociological theory called "critical race theory".
In critical race theory, society isn't seen as a whole, instead it divides the population into little groups whose members are supposed to think and act the same way, and for gods sake can't have their feelings hurt.
And it is this agenda, that is being pushed with the new "diverse" smileys.
Has there for example been any major outcry about representative emoticons from the very people that are supposed to benefit? The Indians, Africans, Asians etc.?
Nope. They're perfectly happy using general, universal yellow emoticons like everybody else.
How do we know this? Well first of all, unlike the social justice jihadis pushing this, I actually associate with people with a variety of skin colors, and have yet to talk with one who considers this an actual problem, or gives more than a shrug about the new diverse emoticons.
And secondly, India, China and some African countries are some of the biggest users of messaging apps and emoticons. Look at the apps and emoticons they use, and note how they mostly use the same yellow, universal emoticons that people in the US and Europe use.
TLDR: Universal, yellow emoticons are fine. Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons. The only people that do care about it, are elitist SJW crazies, and obscure hypocritical Maoist cults.
califlower - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Agreed. This BS only perpetuates the idea of racism and it's disgusting.KoolAidMan1 - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
tldr - "Giving more options for non-whites is racist"Got it, thanks for standing up for us non-whites, appreciate it.
/s
Sleepingforest - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
"Universal, yellow emoticons are fine. Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons. The only people that do care about it, are elitist SJW crazies, and obscure hypocritical Maoist cults." is what he actually said but I'm glad your imagination is active enough to distort it into something complete different.KoolAidMan1 - Friday, April 10, 2015 - link
Again, thanks for explaining what everybody actually wants.PS - lol
sonicmerlin - Saturday, April 11, 2015 - link
They're yellow. How is that made for whites?djboxbaba - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
What a brilliant post. Thank youEidigean - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
"Look at the apps and emoticons they use, and note how they mostly use the same yellow, universal emoticons that people in the US and Europe use."Since we've only had Simpsons yellow skin tone emoticons (since they've changed from punctuation to full color graphics), of course that's all we've used. This is a social experiment of "Build it, and they will come" with regard to colors. Since people tend to not know what they want until they see it, without this experiment we would never know. It might belly-flop completely, but no one is forced anyone to use them.
Pd1234 - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Well please get rid of the gay smiles!!!Kvaern2 - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
I love the new emoticons.Now I can express even more things that happens to me in a quick convenient way.
For instance, if I'm on vacation and get a sunburn I can quickly inform everyone I know by sending a red male face with my hair color attached to it or if I ate something bad and need to visit the toilet often I can tell the world with a brown faced emoticon.
It's pure genius.
DCide - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Oops - the CEO of a certain large tech company with a fruit emblem wouldn't fall into that narrow category of those whom this will "appeal to and appease," would he?Cygni - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Fucking hell, did this comedy post fall out of a laughably shitty subreddit or was this an ironic post? There's no way someone would unironically post, "Brown people don't care about "representative" or "diverse" emoticons", as if you personally know and get to speak for a population of billions.Also nobody would unironically make the argument that "brown people" must not care about other color emoticons because they don't use them... when other color emoticons don't even fucking exist for most users.
Holy hell. This is truly a special post in its level of completely, unabated horrible white mansplained horseshit.
robinthakur - Friday, April 10, 2015 - link
Is it a comedy post? It seems to make perfect sense. People have been using Emoticons for decades, and the majority of people with brains comprehend that they are not meant to be 100% serious. Most people outside of the Simpsons don't have yellow skin. If I wanted to send an accurate depiction of myself smiling I'd send a picture. I would imagine these will be used almost exclusively in a racist way, it's not been thought through particularly well and is in and of itself a stupidly racist idea. What could be more inclusive than a single icon for all races? Clearly the invention of white people apologising for the possibility of any offence being caused.robinthakur - Friday, April 10, 2015 - link
That's not a swipe at Apple btw it's a swipe at anybody using the hideous word 'Mansplained' which manages (ironically) to be patronising to nearly everybody and make the user of the term seem like a collossal douche. "Douche" is at least gender-unspecific.Cygni - Friday, April 10, 2015 - link
Yes it makes perfect sense if you are completely out of touch with fuckin reality, congrats on that.By the way, not everyone is yellow on the Simpsons. Guess who ISN'T yellow? If that's really your fallback argument for keeping all emoticons with a skintone that doesn't represent billions of people, goddamn.
BIG D DAWG32 - Saturday, April 11, 2015 - link
Because there niggers duh? There takin over the countryKoolAidMan1 - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Not everyone is white.Amazing, I know.
GruntboyX - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
so... emoji and bug fixes.?I think I'll pass. Still on 8.1 and honestly dont think I am missing anything.
xype - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Yeah, who cares about bugfixes and performance improvements and security stuff!Appleisdoomednoinnovationmeh.
Sushisamurai - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Adds the ability to report junk messages directly from the Messages appAdds the ability to filter out iMessages that are not sent by your contacts
-finally
Klug4Pres - Thursday, April 9, 2015 - link
Are the cats still yellow only?Seriously, I will never understand why anybody would use emojis in the first place. They disgust me by their utter pointlessness.
atomicotter - Saturday, April 11, 2015 - link
But they got rid of the pale brunette... Why?Pd1234 - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
In order to have more space for their gay friendsPd1234 - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
There is nothing to be glad about this country disgusts me for being so gay! Whats next they will show in emoji big dicks and pussys? I'm not mean but I cant respect someone that loves other persons shit.