wants to change that and bring diversity to
the text messages of its iPhone users.
It's
nothing
new
that
people
are
pissed
about
the
lack of
diversity in Emojis. But finally that should
sometime soon change. After an MTV
blogger emailed Apple's Tim Cook asking
about the lack of diversity in the current
Emojis, a VP of worldwide corporate
communications responded with this:
“Tim forwarded your email to me. We
agree with you. Our emoji characters
are based on the Unicode standard,
which is necessary for them to be
displayed properly across many
platforms. There needs to be more
diversity in the emoji character set, and
we have been working closely with the
Unicode Consortium in an effort to
update the standard.”
It's pretty absurd how far off Emojis are in
terms of racial representation. And the
ones that did make the cut look like they
came from the mind of a backwoods
American who's never ventured away from
the armpit of the South. Take for instance
these fellows to the right. Whereas they
look like caricatures some people you might
run into in Asia, they at least get an
appearance amongst the several white
Emojis of different sexes, ages and even
hair colors. For people darker than this
turban-wearing guy, there is no love in the
Emoji world.
It'd be hilarious if it weren't so backwards,
the fact that Emoji creators had the space to
fit in a smiley face pile of poop, a bloody
needle and a monstrous eggplant. To sum it
all up, just take it from Vine using Destorm power
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