Gboard has shared a series of curious facts about how users use emojis to change their skin tone or gender.
Waiting for the Google keyboard to finally receive the new artificial intelligence discovered in the month of August, now Gboard has received an update that Totally simplifies skin tone and gender application of emojis. There are some curious data that Google has offered when announcing this update about the use that users give to emojis.
Emojis could almost change that well-known phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words, for An emoji is better than dozens of words that can be used to express an emotion. They are capable of completely transforming the context of any message sent and their use has multiplied exponentially in recent years.
For this reason, all the importance in the world is taken to expand the number of emojis every so often, or that the apps use them appropriately in order to do so. fit the needs of millions of people Worldwide. A world comprised of different races and genders that fit perfectly into the new functionalities applied by apps and social networks.
Gboard Google places great value on the responsibility of offering different tones of skin and gender, and with the new update it even totally improves your experience. This new one allows you to apply the skin tone and gender to all emojis so that each one is not changed one after the other. That is, once a change is applied to these two nuances, it will be carried over to the rest of the compatible emojis.
So skin tone and gender will be applied by default once selected one. It is also very useful if you want to achieve the opposite effect. For example, if you want to go back to the original emoji to use in a work chat group, when you select it, it will be applied to the rest and this way one will not appear by mistake with another gender or skin tone.
Google has shared some data on the use of emojis for tone and genre from your blog. It is estimated that 300 clicks must be made to correct these two nuances in all emojis. And in a study carried out, it was discovered that among 2,000 people, 73% always choose the same skin tone for the emoji while the remaining 23% switch between the two. adjacent; normally used to align with the skin tones of the users with whom you establish an online chat or conversation.
The technology giant has also paid attention to another very common action: it avoids using emojis that could anticipate the other person’s tone or gender identity but this does not happen when they are not interacting with their close people such as friends or family. This novelty is already deployed on Android through the Google Play Store according to Android Policein order to be able to change the skin tone and gender of all the compatible emojis in one go.
