Google brings nonbinary emoji to Android Q

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-brings-nonbinary-emoji-to-android-q/

by pradpk • 7 years ago

10 6 7 years ago

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parliament32• 7 years ago

How about we just keep using the original bald yellow smiley faces? No race, no gender, just emoticons.

vokep• 7 years ago

Yes please

or lets just have it all and stop worrying so much (so lets have these ungendered ones, sure, but lets also have a real gun emoji)

makecheck• 7 years ago

The problem for me is that we’ve gone and complicated the heck out of Unicode and...chat has largely moved on from Unicode.

Now, I am way more likely to text a Bitmoji or “sticker” or whatever, none of which have any dependence on Emoji.

Nicksil• 7 years ago

chat has largely moved on from Unicode.

I don't understand this; how so? And on to what encoding has "chat" moved?

mjbmitch• 7 years ago

I believe the poster was referring to the trend of casual messaging—not specifically chat—taking on more of a memic composition in the form of images, GIFs, and the like.

raindropm• 7 years ago

I like the classic yellow blob design. It's undeniably neutral regardless of race, age or gender. Everyone used it until, well, one day someone told us that we should triggered by it.

When you start diversifying, it never ends because you cannot include everyone and someone always, always feel left out. At least Facebook emoji is still the yellow blob though. :)

I think this, in some way, a common cycle for things. When thing start to get uniform, we tends to break it apart, and when things began to spin out of control, we try to unify it again.

and the cycle continues...

Google brings nonbinary emoji to Android Q

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