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[Ryaaan14]

I love emojis and I'd never pass up the opportunity to make a race thread on GAF so boom, two birds one stone

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695/

Light-skin-tone symbols are used far less often in the U.S. than their darker counterparts. Does shame explain the disparity?

...this effect may also signal a squeamishness on the part of white people. The folks I talked to before writing this story said it felt awkward to use an affirmatively white emoji; at a time when skin-tone modifiers are used to assert racial identity, proclaiming whiteness felt uncomfortably close to displaying “white pride,” with all the baggage of intolerance that carries. At the same time, they said, it feels like co-opting something that doesn’t exactly belong to white people—weren’t skin-tone modifiers designed so people of color would be represented online?

I personally think us white folk are too vain to use pasty pale emoji. On the other hand why the fuck are only 2% of people taking advantage of black Santa? 🎅🏿

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I'm white and don't use any.

 

[PillarEN]

It's because I don't care unless I'm somehow joking around. Yellow is the default so that's what I use.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

👀

 

[FallingEdge]

#teamdefaultemoji aka #teamasian

 

[SecretMoblin]

👀

this exactly

 

[NoblesseOblige]

As a white person I don't use white emojis because I don't use any emojis.

 

[kvothe]

I keep it on the default yellow. Wonder why that option is not shown here.

 

[Guevara]

Because it takes slightly more effort and I don't care

 

[Einchy]

How many white people are that pasty, though? Not all white people are this girl.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

👌

 

[Black Republican]

I use Wesley snipes -black when possible

Then again I'm dark skinned black anyways so

 

[James Scott]

I just use the yellow one 😏👌
But yeah, feels kind of wrong to use the pale white one, don't know why

 

[AbsolutBro]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

 

[Dusk Soldier]

 

[Einchy]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

I spell everything out as well but Emojis are just good fun.

 

[Ivan 3414]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

Wow you're a class act.

 

[xRaizen]

I use default. Mostly yellow, I think? I've been using yellow since like.. forever?

What color were MSN Messenger emotes? Edit: They were yellow. See I'm just used to them xD

 

[snacknuts]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

 

[blamite]

I use the white ones. ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

The yellow ones are kinda gross to me for whatever reason.

 

[FallingEdge]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

AbsolutBro.

 

[Ryaaan14]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

U and I wouldn't be bffs

 

[AbsolutBro]

I spell everything out as well but Emojis are just good fun.

I guess I should also clarify that I'll use smiley faces and stuff to make the tone of a message clear, but like the poop emoji that was popular for awhile? No.

Wow you're a class act.

I know, I am pretty great.

 

[richardhawk]

Same reason they don't season their food.

 

[Harmen]

A lot of white people like/have a bit of tan, I don't think this is necesarily race related.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

How many white people are that pasty, though? Not all white people are this girl.

Holy SHIT!!

 

[marrec]

I'm not going to match the fucking skin tone on my shitpost to my actual skin color cause I don't give a shit.

 

[AbsolutBro]

AbsolutBro.

sup

U and I wouldn't be bffs

I guess I should also clarify that I don't care if other people use them. I don't freak out if someone sends me one or anything. I just don't use them myself. Also things like BFF is a little different, to me, than ur. BFF is an acronym at this point. 'Ur' is gross shorthand.

 

[Cabbagehead]

How many white people are that pasty, though? Not all white people are this girl.

Mother of god.

 

[malfcn]

My phone with SwiftKey had yellow faces and white hand by default. I don't know if that's all the emoji, since I don't use many.

 

[AlphaSnake]

I don't see color in my emojis. I just see them as emojis equally.

Spoiler

I also almost never use them...except for the laughing hysterically one with tears. That one's great

 

[GuessMyUserName]

Always yellow since their silly cartoonishness is like the essence of emojis

Though if given only the skin tone I'll pick the lightest one because I'm a pale motherfucker

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I'm not going to match the fucking skin tone on my shitpost to my actual skin color cause I don't give a shit.

You should start matching them in contextually inappropriate ways to confuse your readers.

 

[dave is ok]

I use the yellow one because I'm extremely jaundiced in real life.

 

[AlexBasch]

��

Only emoji I use.

except for the laughing hysterically one with tears

Used to date a girl that used that one when she was sad or writing me sad stuff. She thought it was a "crying uncontrollably" emoji.

I admit I'm a piece of shit for laughing when she wrote me sad things using that icon because it was so goddamn weird.

 

[Buzzati]

I love emojis and I'd never pass up the opportunity to make a race thread on GAF��

No, you certainly won't.

 

[mr jones]

How many white people are that pasty, though? Not all white people are this girl.

Holy crap, I.... didn't see her.... WOW...

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

I use the whitest of the emojis because I'm a basement dwelling vampire.

 

[John Kowalski]

I don't use any emoji, because I think they are fucking dumb. I am one of those people who spell out their words instead of "ur" and shit.

😓💦

😢

 

[IvanJ]

I am white but always use the black emoji because you can see it better on a white background.

 

[Ray Wonder]

How many white people are that pasty, though? Not all white people are this girl.

Glowing like she collected all 7 chaos emeralds.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

I'm decently pale but I just held my hand up to the screen and found that I'm like type two.

I'd say its more likely people don't want to be pale ghosts rather than some fear of being associated with "white power" because people do that all the time on twitter (where she did her "study").

 

[Adam_Roman]

I just use the default ones because my LG G4 doesn't have the fancy skin-tone ones.

 

[Cagey]

I use the second variant all the time because it's accurate for me.

And given it's the most popularly used variant... I don't understand the article's premise.

 

[Guevara]

The pure white emoji is reserved for ghosts iirc

 

[zoozilla]

I'm Asian so I use the yellow ones.

 

[Plywood]

I just use the default.

 

[Syntsui]

👀

Most used emoji ever.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Hands are often darker than less exposed parts of the body. If the emoji was a bare torso I think you'd find a different distribution.

I'm very pale but my hands are at least as dark as the "tans uniformly" emoji.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

also aren't the second and third white too? I mean its almost as if race isn't always about skin color.