In the meantime, South Korean chat app maker KakaoTalk appears to be leading the way by including what could be the very 1st dark-skinned sticker in a chat-app downloaded more than 10 million times. If Apple ever seriously wants to get into what could be a very lucrative messaging business someday, this is an issue it will have to tackle.
Not to be taken lightly, as I have written before, some apps, such as NHN Japan’s LINE, have made as much as $17 million dollars in revenue through its sticker-funding model. The world of stickers and emoticons and emoji is a serious one. “If these Emoji are going to be the texting and Twitter standard, we think it’d be cool if they better reflected the diversity of the people using them,” argues a petition currently up on …” For instance, take this quote from Dailydot: KakaoTalk’s Racially Progressive Sticker Character called “Black”įor those people who use Apple iOS/iphones and are also texters, the selection of Apple emojis is one filled with characters and faces that on the whole are pretty much devoid of ethnic considerations.
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