They’re getting their tights in a twist.

Critics are bashing famous person ballerina Misty Copeland, who began a petition so as to add extra inclusive sunglasses of colour to the normal red Apple ballet shoe emoji.

Copeland, 41, the primary unlit girl to develop into a main dancer on the American Ballet Theatre, posted about the initiative to her 1.8 million Instagram followers on Sept. 21, explaining that ballet began in fifteenth century Italy for the white elite and its footwear are red to compare truthful pores and skin colour.

Critics say the trailblazing dancer is sight racism the place it doesn’t exist, posting feedback like, “It’s an emoji, good grief” and “Pink isn’t a skin color.”

Any other didn’t dance round the problem, writing: “You are creating a racist-pseudo problem.”

“I think this is too far,” wrote Abby Marie Johnson, who mentioned Copeland backers stressed her to delete her remark.

“People lashed back saying I was a privileged white girl who doesn’t get it, when in reality, I was a foster kid, dumped from home to home, and most of my foster siblings were of color,” Johnson, a 28-year-old Norfolk, Virginia resident, advised The Submit.

“I just think it’s silly. When I see the ballet slipper, I just think ballerina. There’s no color attached to it,” she added.

“This wasn’t about race to me, I felt it was annoying to add more and more emojis so everyone in the world feels good. They’re emojis. They don’t stand for who we are.”

Copeland, who’s married to lawyer Olu Evans, actor Taye Diggs’ cousin, and lives in an Upper West Side rental that costs over $3 million — additionally sparked feedback akin to, “clearly a sign of first world privilege problems.”

Daphney Hewitt, who’s unlit and danced for just about a decade, sees not anything flawed with pointe footwear being red, which was once “meant to fit the original dancers.”

“The world doesn’t have to always have to adapt or conform to the politics of black Americans,” she commented on Copeland’s post about the petition, which now has over 22,000 signatures.

Franklin Ground, N.J. local Fola Walker defended Copeland, arguing “something as simple as an emoji change and a bunch of white folks tell her she should shut up.”

“I was surprised that people were enraged at something so small,” Walker, 30, who was once at the dance group at Rutgers College, advised The Submit. “It was very absurd.”

Fábio Mariano, who co-founded the social media platform Blacks in Ballet, mentioned naysayers don’t understand the worth of this reputedly trivial step.

“It’s like when little brown kids went to the store and they only saw white Barbies. It didn’t hurt them directly,” Mariano, a qualified dancer who lives in Memphis, Tenn., advised The Submit.

“But when they saw that brown Barbie, that made such a huge difference. And it’s the same thing right now, they don’t see it, so it’s not a huge deal, but once they see it, they will realize how important that little thing is.”

Copeland and Apple refused to remark.