Why skin tone modifiers don't work for ?, explained by an emoji

Why doesn't the ? emoji support skin tones? It's a mystery that has troubled Redditors for years — so we asked an emoji historian to break it down for us.

Apple emoji embraces racial diversity

Everything You Need To Know About Emoji 🍭 — Smashing Magazine

Technically white: Emoji skin-tone modifiers as American technoculture

Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers: Analyzing Variation in Usage on Social Media

Racially diverse emojis have finally arrived!

PDF] How Gender and Skin Tone Modifiers Affect Emoji Semantics in Twitter

One part politics, one part technology, one part history”: Racial representation in the Unicode 7.0 emoji set - Kate M. Miltner, 2021

Changing the skin tone, gender or profession of an Emoji in Outlook or other Office applications

Is It Okay to Use White Emoji? - The Atlantic

Emoji to get some long-awaited diversity with new range of skin tones, Emojis

Is My Memoji Darker Than Me?. You better check your stickers., by Giulia