#Blackwashing

[madame-helen]

[the-hypocrisy]

Mainstream mob: "Blackwashing The Little Mermaid is fine, because it's a fictional creature...

BUT you can't whitewash Black Panther, cause his skin tone and origin are relevant to the plot "...

Also mainstream mob: "Blackwashing Snow WHITE is totally fine, tho." - Even if the setting is clearly ancient GERMANY, it's written by the Grimm brothers, who where German, and she's literally called Snow WHITE. LIKE IT'S PART OF THE ACTUAL PLOT...

"Oh, we can blackwash Hermione too, in the book her skin tone is never mentioned, even the author did not specify it".

THE GRIMM BROTHERS DID THO.

AND OMG I JUST DISCOVERED. "We can blackwash a VIKING CHARACTER. LIVING IN SCANDINAVIA. IN THE MOTHERFUCKING VIKING ERA. YES."

Just admit you have a double standard based on race (hate to tell you so, but it's still racism) and shut up. Please.

(Edit for the person who reblogged - Scandinavian is not a "race"... ofc the actors are not Scandinavian, but omg you KNOW what I'm talking about here, don't even pretend).

[creaturefeaturecommando]

Motherfuckers who constantly complain about blackwashing or any other minority being cast in a remake and tell minorities to make their own stories need to shut the fuck up unkindly

Because I can guarantee not one of those dickheads ever watched

Canon Busters: The one time it did get social media attention on twitter the tag got taken over by some idiots who were crying to bring back some shit called The OA

Seis Manos: Netflix didn’t promote it at all so it’s mostly their fault but still

The Jellies, Lazer Wulf or Camp Buckooth: every time these shows were promoted here came annoying ass venture bros and Metalocalypse fans under every video commenting that these shows were trash and to bring back VB and Metalocalyps

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: which is doing semi fine but it’s still annoying when I see a promotion online and the comments are filled with “Bring back the owl house !” because you know they lost their show so they can’t let anyone else enjoy their shows

I’m A Virgo: everyone complained that it was ‘too weird’ but claim that they want different stories about black people that aren’t slave stories but turn their heads at black surrealism

Nope: People claimed it was too confusing and that they didn’t understand the story when the story and the message is absolutely easy to understand

It’s always “make your own stories !” yet they never help support those stories, they always try to hijack what little promotion or they just straight up ignore it or even when we do make our own stories they still complain and claim it’s “woke pandering” or “woke propaganda”

[innocentanimegirl]

Context: They made a white character dark

Reason:-

Does anyone see the fucking hypocrisy in this bullshit?

[astriddestelle]

Imagine seeing black fan art of an anime and not thinking oh cute/cool and moving on.

No instead you get all in your feels and start spouting racist shit, make the VA for the main character who is black deactivate his account and dox a minor all because you didn’t like “check notes” the skin color an artist chose to use for fan art that “checks notes again” has no influence on the show at all.

Fucking pathetic. I mean that from the bottom of my soul.

I will never understand why people get so hung up on fan art. It doesn’t take away from the actual media. It’s equivalent to fanfic don’t like don’t read. Don’t like the art keep fucking scrolling don’t interact with it.

I see fan art I don’t like all the time I would never go out of my way to criticize it cause who fucking cares what some other person draws. It has no affect on my life, by the time I get off social media I've already forgot what the art looked like.

Not to mention none of yall have the talent or skill to draw at that level. Skill-less ass losers. If you don’t like seeing Sero as Hispanic, draw your own fan art and post it, build your own feed, and just don’t interact with art you don't like, it’s not that hard.

And it’s funny as hell cause yall will draw an underage ten year old anime girl hella sexualized with huge titties or some uke shotacon boy and be like it’s just a drawing they're not real blah blah blah but let it be a redraw with a person of color and yall start foaming at the mouths like the miserable rabid dogs you are.

Then yall double down in the dumbest of ways, drawing a darker skin character as light in some sort of gotcha. Like way to miss the point of the character.

It’s always the same arguments that get brought up what if I made Black Panther white. When the whole point of Black Panther is the fact that he’s a Black African. Notice how no one ever calls for Black Bruce Wayne, why cause Bruce is a rich blue blood in America, the likelyhood of said person being black is minuscule. Superman on the other hand could be black bro's an alien. Aquaman was race swapped in the movies and no one gave a shit I wonder why (here's a hint, he passes the paperbag test)

The real reason black characters can’t be race swapped is cause their race is embedded into their character, why, one cause back then when they were being introduced there were no black characters so half of their character was revolved around them being wait for it, black. Because of said reason above, society and the media seems to believe that you can’t have a black character without their being some sort of reasoning behind it. (I.e why is their black people in this show, why is so and so black, despite it not changing anything about the story)

Don’t even get me started on the fact that none of yall would ever dare say this to any person of color in real life cause you’re a bunch of pathetic losers who would get beat to a pulp.

Just sick and tired of the racism so prevalent in fan communities. Cause it's all communities not just anime.

Yall still salty over people drawing Harry Potter as Indian and Hermione as black, or Pansy Parkinson as Asian. Lucas and Erica from stranger things are heavily criticized for every thing their character does and yall hype up every other character cause they’re white. Obsessed with Eddie for doing what exactly? The same shit Lucas does helping his friends fight the upside down. Caleb still has the least amount of followers out of all the men wonder why (hint he doesn't pass the paper bag test)

I don’t intend for this to get much traction hence why I posted it hella late at night but yeah I’m tired and needed to vent.

[centipede-snvff-lover]

people who race wash are so not skibidi

[coverednstars]

cater baby…. those cornrows….

I had to do a little fixer upper 😞

artcom: h4mburgerjunki3

[iminyourwallsbabe]

The funny thing about "blackwashing" is that the world seems to stop every time y'all see it, but when we call y'all out for whitewashing, all of a sudden you have every excuse in the book. "Oh well I just didn't know how to draw that kind of hair", "idk how to work with that skin tone", "it's just my art style", "I don't HAVE to learn how to draw that I'm just drawing for fun"

Aight, bet. Say less. You shouldn't be mad about blackwashing because maybe the artist doesn't know how to draw characters with straight hair, maybe they don't know how to work with pale skin tones, maybe it's just their art style

And before you say "it's not that hard there's so many examples and tutorials out there", maybe we don't wanna learn how to draw your asses either. We're just drawing for fun. Womp womp.

[morallygay]

“Blackwashing” goes in the same box as “the female gaze” and “transandrophobia” for terms that are coined as a parallel equivalent to an existing term but miss that the core aspect of their counterpart (whitewashing, the male gaze, and transmisogyny) is a power imbalance. Hegemony. Oppression. The original terms are critiques of these (racism, more specifically colorism and antiblackness; misogyny; transphobia x misogyny). They are not equivalent and can only work in one direction.

[davekat-sucks]

Can anon from previous post please send some screenshots? I'm curious but I don't have twitter/x due to it being blocked in my country. I want to see what they're saying

It all started when people were hating on Bkub, the creator of Pop Team Epic, who had drawn Marina from Splatoon 2. They accused him of whitewashing for using a lighter palette.

Which then escalated in someone making money off blackwashing edits since people don't think anime screenshots from an animated TV show is an individual's art.

The English Dub voice actor of Okarun in the Dandadan dub, AJ Beckles (who is now on Bluesky), is in support of people blackwashing.

Japanese users call out on Westerners hypocrisy and say that foreigners should bring POC into it as they just want to enjoy their otaku hobbies.

And when people try to show off actual existing black characters in anime or pointed out how it's mostly used as a DEI checklist for companies, they get ignored.

[nokraz2000]

Ive seen tons of posts talking about "le whitewash minecraft movie" as if steve isnt a white guy with a tan at best. Considering the facts of "notch is racist" and "the original creators were all white people from a white country" and the first version of minecraft had "steve" and "black steve" sprites (granted neithee look like steve nowadays but the fact they specify that one steve as specifically black should say a lot)

[madame-helen]

The hate to gingers is real

[blu3-sp00ky]

:(

tired of all the pines blackwashing,,, they are a jewish-american family and it hurt when people just forgor that

[clownishstim]

black pearl cookie's faded radiance costume edits. free to use for icons and banners and stuff as long as you credit me and read my dni first.

[renenene]

Colored a toga pfp :)

[chinatzuify-blog]

Dark skinned characters being whitewashed / White skinned characters being blackwashed

If you're going to change characters' skin colors, make sure to do It in a politically correct way 😤👌