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Re:Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017) by jodrellblank on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:10PM (#20881449)
> There are comics in black/latino/asian dominant countries where the heroes (if the comics are not realistic, like Marvel) are all kinds of shades, yellow, green, pink, red, brown, white, etc and are still supposed to represent black/latino/asian etc folks.

You mean, one colour generic yellow isn't enough for professional animators? This observation doesn't seem to be supporting the position you're defending.

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Re:Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017) by big_chungus on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:39PM (#20890452)
> professional animators

Maybe not for professionals, but for Joe Average sending emoticons from his phone as part of a text message, probably. The needs of a professional animator and your average text-messager are different by orders of magnitude.

He observed that in a fantasy or abstract situation (i.e. cartoon faces, comics, etc.), color != ethnicity, which is an excellent observation which does support his position. You, on the other hand, tried to claim basic emoticons were insufficient because they would prove insufficient for a professional animator.

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