What this shows is if you inject the concept of racial self-identity onto cartoon symbols, and afford people a way to navigate that selection, people can do that. Not that anyone wanted this, or that this feature is beneficial.
Usage clearly states otherwise. No one is forced to use a particular skin tone (they can continue using the default yellow one).
This comment frankly is quite dismissive. Just because you don't use a feature doesn't mean "no one wanted it".
You would need to have a theory of benefit, and then design a survey which tests users to understand if that benefit was achieved. You, frankly, are confused about causation -- we put a dialog in front of people and they made a selection, therefore people wanted this dialog?
You're suggesting that it's impossible for people to have wanted a feature, because UXs have a popup showing people that it's possible to use that feature now. I disagree. You're projecting your personal opinion as everyone's personal opinion.
And that emoji picker still allows you to pick the default yellow color. So if people -really- didn't want to use them, they wouldn't.
Yeah, it does mean those people want it.
There's literally no other way to interpret it.
Or, people can suffer through a certain amount of bullshit in order to get to their goals. The word you're looking for is "instrumental" -- there's your missing interpretation.
At some point in the past ten or so years, the cultural discourse has devolved to such an extent that people cannot think even one move ahead. Zero tolerance manicheanism rules everything now.
People are clearly using the emoji they want because they want to in and of itself, end of story.
They're not doing it to satisfy the government or access software or whatever. And no, I'm not looking for the word "instrumental", because emoji are about expression, which is literally the polar opposite of something being instrumental.
Sometimes it's not about looking twenty moves ahead. Some things are just valuable in and of themselves. Some things are about the moment. Perhaps that's the perspective you're missing here?
Just because some things are instrumental doesn't mean everything is. And thank goodness for that!
Just one look at the way these color pickers are presented on first use, and how that selection becomes the default thereafter, tells you everything you need to know about the flimsy basis of your claims. The picker pops up and interrupts you while you're in the middle of writing a message, and then persists your choice. It's a speed bump on the way to your actual goal -- gosh, does anyone have a word for that sort of thing?
A person would have to be mighty well motivated to believe that this would be evidence of a latent demand for self-expression via skin tone.
I have literally never seen this, can you provide a few examples? I'm curious how it's presented.
The difference is big enough to make original statement lie - inflammatory lie that makes people outraged over something that dont exists.
How would you recommend which emoji color I should pick? How do you imagine most people would navigate that decision?
>The difference is big enough to make original statement lie - inflammatory lie that makes people outraged over something that dont exists.
I'm very sorry that your notions of epistemology and morality are this underdeveloped, for you to be so confused about what lies are.
Think for yourself, pick what you want to pick
The second choice for me would be the least bright one. I don't like how shiny bright colors mixed into text.
So the entire exercise is tautological -- of course people pick a skin color, when you frame the choice as "pick your skin color before you send this (or don't and we'll just keep using the inhuman color, which might communicate its own signal, or just look weird when everyone else has a skin tone)". And of course it's meant to be informed by race.
We decided to present skin tone (race) as something important, and people responded as though it's important, is not a surprising finding.
Eh? Never having set it, I went looking for the setting in Slack. It's so discreet that I had to Google it. I still have no idea where it might be in MacOS.
The idea that this is being forced on people is kind of absurd.