It feels like often when they portray a minority they're trying to cram several sub-groups into the same person (or in this case avatar).
"Let's put in a black, transgender person with green hair and Asperger's and a blind, blue-haired, handicapped asian girl with multiple piercings. We'll stick in a white dude too, since we know the conference will be 90% white, heterosexual males and we don't want them to feel too unwelcome."
I get that they want to make everyone feel welcome, which is great! But when it's too made up it doesn't feel genuine and you'll just discount it as diversity window dressing.
When Apple happily works in tandem with a government which has imprisoned an entire minority and has been doing the same thing to Christians for decades, you get some perspective on how much they dress themselves up to impress their local audience, not because they actually care.
not to dogpile too much, but these memojis all over wwdc 2020 creep me out... it feels almost like infantilsm of the dev community (i know thats not apples intent, but...)
"Let's put in a black, transgender person with green hair and Asperger's and a blind, blue-haired, handicapped asian girl with multiple piercings. We'll stick in a white dude too, since we know the conference will be 90% white, heterosexual males and we don't want them to feel too unwelcome."
I get that they want to make everyone feel welcome, which is great! But when it's too made up it doesn't feel genuine and you'll just discount it as diversity window dressing.