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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by adastra22 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:05AM (#45193522)
How old are you? You don't have to answer of course, but I suspect this is either an age or a generational thing.

Being over 40, I just don't give a crap about those things.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by deathanatos on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:43AM (#45194110)
Certainly the younger generations are not hung up on the skin tone of an emoji.

Some people customize them to more closely represent themselves. Some people use the defaults. Who … cares? … it's just an emoji.

Heck, for a while some emoji were only available in specific genders. (Those are much rarer, now.) Nobody where I work ever got hung up on the gender of an emoji not matching the user.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by adastra22 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:20AM (#45194347)
My experience is the opposite. I've seen 20-somethings getting hung up on these sorts of issues. My teen daughter is unhealthily concerned about such things. Us old farts dgaf.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:35AM (#45194886)
> Heck, for a while some emoji were only available in specific genders. (Those are much rarer, now.) Nobody where I work ever got hung up on the gender of an emoji not matching the user.

You mean those emojis were originally gender neutral but have now been reinterpreted. Another unnecessary division that we really don't need.

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