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“Blackface” emoji menu icon - WTF!!!

Why is the icon to access the emoji menu in messenger showing up in “blackface”

iPhone 12

Posted on Oct 18, 2021 1:23 PM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2021 1:27 PM

The fact that the icon is black does not mean it's "blackface", a very loaded term.


What app are you looking at? What version of iOS?

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Nov 17, 2021 8:44 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I’d be fine with a black smiley face. However, this is not a black smiley face. A black smiley face would not have the exaggerated wide lips. It would be a dark face with a single white line for the lips. This icon, however, is reminiscent of the extremely racist “blackface” that white “minstrels” would wear to characterize black people as cartoonish and less than human.


Version 15.1 appears to have resolved this for me as well.

“Blackface” emoji menu icon - WTF!!!

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