#blackwashing is not a thing

[shellyswirlz]

Not several random ass people starting to come at me on the hellsite of Twitter because I want Palestine to be free, and because I support "blackwashing" lmao

Blackwashing isn't even a real thing first of all.. That word was most likely created by racist white supremacists. Like it's ok to blackwash is it not? You're bringing more diversity to certain characters.. Whitewashing however is a huge problem 😭

...Like wtf do you mean whitewashing and blackwashing are the same thing no tf they ain't...

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[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[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.

[astroarcane]

Not to continue whining but I already know that people are gonna complain more about the POC edits that will come out (fucking ""blackwashing"") then the blatant racism in the game and then pretend that they're still allies.

"well it's wrong to change any character's skin tone—" maybe focus on the multibillion corporation pandering to racists instead of singular artists making edits of fictional characters.

[thegreatnpowerfulspuukiiz]

i always forget how much ppl genuinely hate black people on twitter, esp in the anime community. that BS discourse over that dandadan fanart art just reminded me how miserable ppl are and how much they gen just hate black people. it’s so sad.

i’ve noticed my twitter use time going back up recently and it’s bumming me out bc i gen feel worse after being on there. ive been doomscrolling sm lately. i’ve also started using tiktok again more, which reminded me of how much a hate tiktok bc everyone on there is actually extremely stupid 😭

it just sucks bc as much as i wanna find ppl who like the same stuff as i me, its so hard when twitter and tiktok are simultaneously the most populated platforms to do so and actual cesspools full of bigots and idiots :/ it just makes me sad bc the it’s nearly impossible to find ppl irl who share my interests so the internet is the next best place is the internet is extremely horrible lol.

there’s not a point to this post really, i just wanted to rant a bit.

[didiwaffles]

I should stop watching youtube cause I start getting opinions that need to be voiced but also I don't want to invite arguing upon myself

[cepheusgalaxy]

"Blackwashing" "too-woke headcanons" sure but when it's an aspec character then suddenly it's "LET'S PEOPLE ENJOY FANDOM."

[sheila--e]

I think a lot of u in the jojo fandom are very racially insensitive w ur hcs ngl. why is the character youre hc-ing as black the one you also hc as very burly and aggresive.

[cnl0400]

Love not looking at the main tag anymore

[lairofthewyrm]

Hey, can someone please explain the Netflix Cleopatra drama?

I understand the reasons that Egypt is suing Netflix over this, but outside of Egypt, the reaction to this is just really confusing me????

As a white (non-Muslim) person, I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around the idea of “blackwashing”. I live in the US so I’m assuming that has something to do with my perception of the issue?

Here are my questions:

Skin color isn’t exclusive to country??? There were obviously brown Greek people even in ancient Greek, even if it wasn’t a large portion of the population????

Do we concretely know what Cleopatra looked like? I know that there’s art of Cleopatra, but I also know that a lot of that was/is viewed from a white, and male perspective so is this a “the victors write history” situation?

Is the backlash over the casting (and I know it’s not just from Egypt, this is coming from many people and many places) really about skin color or is it about something else? If so, what else?

Like I legit want to know and understand as this situation is so confusing to me? Like, if everything else is accurate, then let the show be????

If anyone is able to give some insight or point to (non-biased) resources I can peruse I’d be extremely grateful! ^^

[bun-monchi]

Just found some wild race wars in YouTube comments about how anime characters being drawn in African american styles is racist and blackwashing.

I dont know what to say or how i feel about it. Is it really wrong to draw a light skinned character black? For instance, black deku?

Is that bad? (Yes or no)

[gerudospiriit]

[I highly doubt the person sending racist hate to my friend is following me, but if you're racist and get all in your feelings over the idea of Link being Black, unfollow me now. That shit don't fucking fly with me and you need to get the fuck out of here.]

[yrdnzz]

why can't u just creature ur own black characters instead of race bending them. isn't it like if u made black characters white/Asian

because... becau- BECAUSE BECAUSEEEE

LOLLLL nah but in all seriousness, i drew this last october to participate in the blacktober prompt. i know sae isn't black of course-- most of the characters from blue lock are asian or european, which is cool !!! but..

if artists can draw shidou with the lightest skin EVER knowing damn well he's tanned and has undoubtedly brown skin, i can reimagine a few blue lock characters as black for an event that is meant to uplift black creators and celebrate blackness in a medium (art, manga, comics, whatever) where we lack proper representation

sae is a character i love soooo much so i drew the art of him as a request on twitter for blacktober. even if he wasnt requested, i still wouldn't have drawn any of the canon black characters like dada silva or agi because i'm just not interested in the black characters kaneshiro writes (aside from loki). all the black characters in blue lock are only there briefly so when there isn't any good, prominent representation of black characters, i'll just draw the ones i like as black.

if you want a more in-depth response on where i stand on the "why is drawing black people as white not ok but drawing white/asian people as black is ok" aka the "blackwashing" debate, read this article. but also if u dont like my black blue lock character art idk sorry (not really) but i'm pretty sure the block button isn't that hard to find so

[linthehero]

boy howdy do i love drawing characters different from how theyre actually supposed to look just for the fun of it, anyways sorry this is just a small low effort drawing i did on vacation but here’s my bobby worst interp

[animationismycomfort]

y’all am I ready for the dumb-sses that’ll appear in my comments once I show my designs and headcanons for my sp characters

[cinnabargirl]

I think we can criticise netflix's Cleopatra without falling into nazi dogwhistles