On top of wondering why there's still no taco emoji, though, many of us have found ourselves trying to figure out this other long-standing conundrum: Why are emoji yellow?

The yellow color is just the neutral default — the same color as the race-less smiley-face emoji — and doesn't represent a skin color.

The yellow heart emoji along with the other was approved under Unicode 60 in 2010. Across all social platforms the yellow emoji comes with a golden hue which looks amazing when shared. The yellow ...

What does the yellow heart mean? The yellow heart emoji appears next to your number one best friend on Snapchat, when you are also their number one best friend.

Apple's updates to the emoji were supposed to make them more diverse. So what's up with the yellow face?

And that's because, depending on your race, they could denote white privilege, especially if you use the yellow thumbs-up emoji.

Apple’s new release of iOS 8.3 beta and OS X 10.10.3 beta for testers includes a long-awaited emoji update, with new, racially diverse humanoid emoji.

It’s worth noting the unpopularity of white emoji tentatively appears confined to the United States. Elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East, white emoji are more common.

Test your emoji-analyzing skills with this London restaurant's menu, which chose a very quirky approach to describing its nightly fare.

And it could all change. State health department officials said they mapped the yellow zone to identify areas in the county where there is above-average transmission of the coronavirus.