This is an interesting thread on emojis and skintone. Personally, I choose to use the yellow default and brown skintones interchangeably depending on the context. Why? When everyone else in my org reacts to something in Slack it can often look like this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up">(30). https://twitter.com/DarkLiterata/status/1293347709982781450">https://twitter.com/DarkLiter...

When I react I may choose to do this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up">(31) rather than this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up">(30)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍🏾" title="Thumbs up (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">(1) because what I& #39;m trying to say here "is I like this too" not "I  like this and my skin is brown".

It& #39;s far from ideal given that yellow has a colour value closer to lighter skin tones than darker ones, and not all non-white people would want or feel able to make the same choice in this context.

But for me personally,  the option to add my reaction without it being a visual reinforcement of the fact I& #39;m in a minority is welcome. If the reactions looked like this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍🏻" title="Thumbs up (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Thumbs up (heller Hautton)"> (30) that option would be taken away.  Hate to say but IMO Facebook were on to something with blue thumbs!

(In writing this thread I also learned that in Slack and Whatsapp I& #39;m closest to skintone 3 but in Twitter skintone 4!)