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The Simpsons (partially serious).

Coloring Black and Asian characters with skin tones, means that yellow in the Simpsons represents only white people.

The Simpsons is not the authority on the meaning of yellow skin for generically representing human body parts. It’s a tv show. The iconic happy face symbol is not intended to specifically be a white person. Pac man is not a white person.

I agree that they're not an -authority-, but the Simpsons is a huge cultural institution. They definitely made an impact on how the yellow tone is coded (as white).

So yes it seems silly, but I think a default of blue or green would be better.

This is a very North America centric view I think. The Simpsons aren't nearly as popular in other countries.

I tried to informally fact-check this and I found out (for example) that The Simpsons is dubbed into Luxembourgish.

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