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

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


The Unicode Consortium kicked off a revolution of internet proportions when it introduced the skin tone modifier to a handful of emoji in 2015. Since then, the executive body behind all our emoji (and a million other characters) has extended skin tone support to a bunch more emoji, including at least a dozen hand gestures. But the skin tone modifier is notably missing for one particular hand-themed emoji: ????. It’s a mystery that has troubled Redditors for years. Determined to get Reddit the answer it deserves, I set out on a quest to find out why that is. “What makes the handshake…

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