#its a nice sentiment to say EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE FORGIVEN but.......... realistically.. do they

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Hi! this is by no means a mean spirited question, i just wanna understand your pov, is your problem with them making kato racist and then redeeming her at the end that she is the main? bc in s3 moyo was homophobic and they redeem him at the end, was that fine bc he was a side character? i rly wanna understand, pls don't take this the wrong way. is it bc it's really weird to wanna make us emphasize with a racist main? that maybe this story would be okay with moyo as main? is that what you mean?

hi anon!!! thanks for the clarity of tone, i appreciate that you’re willing to hear out why people are upset about it all. here’s my take on the whole thing, but there are definitely dissertations to be written about it, and other’s opinions flood the tag rn, rightfully so, so you can go check those out too!

i’d say there are definitely MANY reasons people are upset, so i’ll go point by point that you mention. i definitely think the idea that wtfock stepped back, looked at an opportunity for an all new season, and then said you know what we’re gonna do? make this about the redemption of a white racist and EXTREMELY privileged character, AFTER baiting with moyo and yasmina. the idea of people being redeemed and learning is necessary bc they do, but this isn’t a revolutionary idea, as it’s been conveyed across media for ages. the messaging itself doesn’t even feel..... aimed at the target audience, and if it is, it’s kind of ridiculous to show kato as this girl who doesn’t know better bc.... she’s literally growing up in the 21st century. that’s not to say young people can’t be racist, but young people are exposed far more to global social conditions, ESPECIALLY those who use social media, so the whole thing is not only a little far fetched, but also just kind of a tired and uninventive idea. there are so many tropes wtfock could and are choosing to follow even in just their current storyline that feel.... outdated and ridiculous and like the worst way to tell this type of story to young people. the people in this world who actually need representation to be understood and redemption in the eyes of the society and the audience aren’t skinny white chicks with everything going for them, lol.

moyo was majorly homophobic and misogynistic, and a lot of people have pointed out misgivings about that over the past 2 seasons with the writers of the show themselves. wtfock have a very limited number of poc acting in their show, and so for them to make the active decision to have the one nonwhite character in their boysquad be the overtly homophobic one was racist too, however intentional. it’s why people are so willing to forgive moyo and recognize that... the character himself is being done dirty in those characterizations, but not only that, moyo was not the love interest or even a main character in robbe’s season. we saw that growth in the background, and because robbe was willing to forgive him and understand where he was coming from, the audience themselves were able to do the same. there’s plenty more to be said for this, but it’s worth it’s own post, and i have a couple asks i’ll answer about my opinions later on moyo as a character.

since we don’t know the EXACT trajectory of the season and it’s all just speculation rn.. it’s hard to tell whether or not moyo being the main would fix the whole issue of the plot and writing that’s going on rn, lol. but i can say for sure though that it would mean a hell of a lot more for representation and storytelling if he were. to have a black boy be the main character of a tv show in belgium??? and get to tell his story?? there would be more intrigue and more learning going on on the whole... and if wtfock handled it properly, we could finally get some nuance and a whole actual black person’s pov in this time of worldly political upheaval but also just... daily life and the way he has to wake up every day and deal with the concept that there are people he’ll interact with who genuinely look down on him for his skin color or being biracial in general, maybe the issues that would raise internally about his own identity. we could see HOW moyo’s home life actually is, rather than just how it looks from a rich girl’s perspective, and we could see him work through his own issues of toxic masculinity and misogyny, where some of that came from and how he can tackle it. now imagine all of that, and then take a look at what we ARE being given instead.

the storyline itself is something that has it’s own load of problems, and a lot of them stem from the fact that kato is the main. if kato were the love interest, and we were seeing moyo have to work through this from his own pov... i think the story would end up vastly different than i expect it’s going to. i hope this helped you understand in any capacity, but whether wtfock try to make kato a redeemable character or not, they’ve wasted a very wide open opportunity to actually......... do something meaningful with a story. white people don’t need to be told we deserve redemption, we already are in like 99% of the media out there. it could have been so much more impactful on a young audience to see the reverse. to convey that maybe... sometimes people don’t deserve that forgiveness, and you SHOULD know better, especially in a world with an abundance of information and resources right at your fingertips.