More is less: iOS 12.1 new Emoji

The new emoji coming with iOS 12.1 will make some people happy but to me are more joyless skin tone, hair color and culturally correct western think. I liked emoji when they were more ‘Manga’ and not Unicode Consortium committee product blah but the Unicode Consortium know they have good thing going and will run it into the ground. Emoji are supposed to be fun, remember? Not tiny anatomically correct versions of reality.

Emoji were way more fun when everybody was a manga princess not a Tim Cook Memoji. Let’s face it do you want anatomically correct culturally Barbie with skin tones and hair textures? Of course not, we all want the fabulous Cher Barbie with the Bob Mackie outfit. It’s all Cosplay anyway.