#:( how disappointing dfsjkdjkf

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this is late af but re: the kpop thing i'm not obsessed but i'm a fan of a few kpop groups(not BTS) and i like to use them as fcs but let me tell you that a lot of the issues are with kpop fans in general (and the industry tbh) and it makes it so hard sometimes. like i had to learn how to recolor gifs and stuff (bc i can't make them no matter how hard i've tried) bc i've had a few fcs that were darker skinned and SO Much of their content had them washed out like crazy (1/3)

(cont’d) so i'd have to get a reference photo of what their skin color actually looks like and edit whatever gif/photo i was using to make it match and it's really sad bc even like official photoshoots would have them looking like ghosts so it really was easier to do that then try and find quality pictures (and esp gifs) to use most of the time. (like if you want an example, look up "cha hakyeon" and then "cha hakyeon skin tone" and be saddened by the difference in the top results)

(this got way longer than i thought i'm sorry) i'm 100% not trying to excuse anything and that was from before kpop fcs in roleplays really got popular so the resources might have gotten better (i'm just now getting back into roleplaying) but i'm mostly just complaining bc i don't have time for that and it was ridiculous. also if i see one more non-korean kpop star being roleplayed as a korean i'm going to scream

firstly ,  please don’t ever apologise !! this is what im here for - rant away !!! i can’t say for 10000% what the kpop rpc side of things is like now , in terms of that . i can only speak from the experience of like  , whether they’re being whitewashed by the rpc or media in general still - but i wouldn’t be surprised if they were !  kpop is a trend and genre that really harmfully highlights white / lightskinned koreans , and kinda really minimalizes koreans of any other skin and tone  . and the rpc of course lap it up  bc . . we already know they hate darker skinned people fdjkndfnkdfn . like  i said , its the rpc’s pat on the back . it’s their  ‘ bite sized ‘ / ‘comfortable ‘ way of claiming diversity - but they don’t actually take into effect or thought how harming and anti-black that community can be , and how erasing and damaging it can be for others in the rps . like koreans are people of colour , so let’s use that and acknowledge that . but let’s also not fetishsize them and heavily heavily add to the whitewashing of them and others .