• mredofcourse@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    The kid is just confused. He’s 10. Give him a break on this. He’s thinking the emoji that best represents him, the only one with glasses, shouldn’t be an image he thinks is negative. However, the yellow face emoji set isn’t supposed to represent identities as opposed to emotion. The Unicode Nerd Face is supposed to be nerdy. Making a yellow face emoji with glasses wouldn’t express any emotion.

    There are person emojis but those tend to be roles, expressions, activities or really generic. I suppose these could be opened to more identities to include glasses, punk, goth, pierced, scared, dimples, etc… but Apple already addressed this with Memojis.

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    11 months ago

    I find some of the negative comments targeted at the kid really concerning. We all said stupid shit at that age. The only difference is that now kids have access to social media at really early ages.

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    11 months ago

    I’m offended that the emoji would depict people with prominent front teeth with glasses. Horrible. I guess it’s time for me to start a petition.

  • technicalityNDBO@alien.top
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    11 months ago

    He’s young and in time he’ll learn that he was making a mountain out of a molehill. But I’m proud that the kid is standing up for what he believes in.