An ability to change the color of the emojis
I'm a brown person, and I'd like to be able to choose a brown hand for the thumbs up sign and some of the face emoji's. The globe is a colorful place
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Dawn
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Wait. This has been a request since 2019 and (only) Teams hasn't gotten with this century and given skin tone modification options? PLEASE MAKE THIS UPDATE ASAP. #BLM
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Dave G.
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Agreed!
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Rolland C Coutinho
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I am a brown person from India and I work professionally with the FAA. Having a Caucasian "thumbs up emoji" available is inappropriate. The least that can be accomplished is to have a simple variety of colors available: Caucasian, Chinese, African-American, Indian Subcontinent.
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Mark Lewis
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Long overdue! #DEI
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Jillian
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PLEASE make this change
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JR
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Hope this option is coming soon .. #represent
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Rudy
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Good too see I am not on a island on this. Their Microsoft Yammer product already has this capability so really makes no sense. The small things are BIG things and matter !!!
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Anonymous
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Agree - this must be a simple fix, and MS Teams needs to add this functionality...quickly.
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Anonymous
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Agree. A co-worker and I were lamenting on the same topic just a few weeks ago. Yes a range of skin tones are needed for the emojis.
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Anonymous
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Absolutely agree. As companies continues to focus on DE&I initiatives, I would love to see more inclusion possibilities within the Teams platform. If you can select a skin tone with Zoom, you should be able to with all Microsoft platforms.
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Jessica Taylor
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Microsoft this must be an easy fix! Please
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anon
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Seems like a simple idea with valuable outcome. Why delay?
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Joanie Mackowski
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Yes: there need to be more colors for these emojis. It's not because I need an emoji perfectly to represent what I actually look like; it's because continuing to pretend that humans have one "normal" skin color is a huge problem around the world. Don't make everyone identify with a single tan-yellowish skin. Honestly, I'd prefer a big range of colors, not necessarily "skin tones": let a person choose to have a purple thumbs up or green, etc.
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Anonymous
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the other platforms have this. Why the delay MS?
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Colina Wright
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As a BAME member of staff I tend not to use the "thumbs up" and other emojis in Teams regardless of whether I agree; I know it's simply an icon but if I can customise my emojis on my phone to reflect who I am, I'd like this to be the case when communicating across my organisation and beyond. It means something to me being in the minority at my Students' Union, why should I not be myself... it's sometimes the little things that matter. If "black lives matter" then perhaps this is a simple gesture you can amend to reflect that they matter to you too.
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Anonymous
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Most "black" people are NOT black. Most of us are brown. Therefore, does MS have brown emojis?
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Anonymous
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Agree! Microsoft needs to offer more skin tones to the platforms.
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Anonymous
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The hand emoji is yellow and yes it needs to be updated to include more skin colors including "white" Can we stick to that and not assume the yellow emoji = white?
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Sushil Raj
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Yes please add this skin color variant to represent us Brown and Black folks. Slack has done a great job with skin shades. Other apps as well.
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CB
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Please add skin color variants for Teams. It makes using the app and being in our communities much more welcoming.