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Re:I/O 2022 by jl6 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:55PM (#31346379)
It’s interesting that the previous “neutral” yellow emojis are widely viewed as white:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05887.pdf

My explanation is that The Simpsons trained us to view yellow cartoon characters as white.

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Re:I/O 2022 by Wingman4l7 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:40PM (#31359264)
Considering that the Indian immigrant proprietor of the convenience store in the show is actually brown, I'm confident that the vast majority of people considered the yellow-colored Simpsons to be a white family.
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