It’s time-synced, and seems to function as instant feedback to the creator (and to other people listening to it along with you — think of it as a laugh track in a sitcom, which makes you feel like you’re viewing as part of a communal audience). It’s really fascinating, and a great idea.

But, take alook at the applause button again. It’s the ‘clap’ emoji. Notice the color. It’s default yellow, like this: 👏

You can’t change it. 🙅🏾‍

If you’re not aware, colored people tend to change their emojis to match their actual flesh tone. Mine, for example, would be 👏🏾, because in real life, I look like this.

So, who uses yellow? Well, some casual polling suggests that white people are generally fine with the default yellow emoji:

But not me. Being forced to use an emoji that signals ~white person who views themselves as ‘Default’~ to me is not fun.

And for that reason, I’m deleting the app. 🚮

Not out of spite, but because I just lost interest at that point. The app ceased to speak to me. This seems nitpicky, but if you understand UX/UI at all, UX/UI as a field is nothing if not understanding the little things that irk users.

It wouldn’t be hard to allow you to customize the default color of your ‘clap’ emoji. I mean, the app lets you customize your avatar, insert a URL, and customize the color of your background, which is pretty damn superfluous.