"Wow, that’s [i]nter-white-person weirdness [...] welcome to our world—where the default was always one thing, and you’re trying to make a new default. [I default] to the darkest emoji now … I live in a world where there was always ever one default."https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695/ …
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Replying to @o_guest
Their stats are really shabby. The lightest skin tone gets 19%, with 30% for the next lightest, and 52% for the darkest three... But by any metric, that would mean that at least two of the darker skin tones are used around 17%, or equivalently the same as the lightest
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Replying to @LargeCardinal @o_guest
....assuming that the most used one matches the lightest at 19%. So, that seems an even spread across usage for anything other than the second lightest tone. Not sure how that would change the story, but grouping those three together is a bit, well, unexplained.
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Replying to @o_guest
I suppose that depends on which sources you use - 72% is the figure I usually see for white in the US (16% hispanic, but that's an ethnicity, not a race in the figures). I'd have to check....
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Replying to @LargeCardinal @o_guest
i suspect that defult yellow (ie stereotypically white) is not included in the counts...
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Sorry, I mean baselines for the Tweets collected?
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