As a great many of you must have already discovered not too long ago (don’t know when), one day when you wanted to select an emoji or the like showing a human face carrying the emotion you want to express, you found to your shock that the people’s faces had all suddenly become horribly gangrenous and unreadable! Apparently, Google sent invaders from the center of the Earth with faces indistinguishable from rotten Kiwi fruit to take command of our Androids (v 10+ ?)
Now, before hints of racial animus get unjustifiably underway, allow me to make two points:
(1) I’m well aware that there was no reason at all to continue to force all such faces to reflect Caucasian ancestry! We’re a minority and there’s no valid argument such that this should be forced on every human being.
(2) In my strong personal opinion, the most beautiful skin tones I’ve ever seen are the most glorious chocolate brown color of a People I can’t name, nor do I know where they live. I’ve only seen then in photos without additional info. My best WAG is that they’re from Central America (rather than, say, Brazil or South America).
So, with that behind us, I’ll develop my factual questions… What the fricken’ HELL was Google thinking? “Because we want to be culturally sensitive, instead of Caucasian faces for emojis, we’ll use the single ugliest, most revolting, least expressive, most nausea-inducing color we can find! That’s what equality means!” (Shades of Harrison Bergeron)
And why did they give us no choice in the matter? Key philosophical question (not for general topics, I know): Why is forcing every single human face to look like decaying garbage any “better” or more “culturally sensitive” than forcing every face to be Caucasian?
Finally, my factual questions: (1) Does anyone know anything behind Google’s decision? (2) How can I change the emojis to fit my own preferences (and forget about the ability to downward drag some of them to alter the skin tone, since the results just look like slightly less gangrenous monsters). Does anyone know of any software to do this, or do I have to root (which I don’t like)? And is there a way to implement my choices without Google polluting my phone again?
Many thanks, patient readers!
