#the sinophobia in the west is getting insane and i have a feeling this is gonna hit a lot of Asian artists | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kiseiakhun · 4 months ago

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I don't think it's a coincidence that the artist in question also happens to be Chinese and has been outspoken in the past about issues specifically affecting China and makes her heritage a big, central theme of her work. For Some Reason, this type of backlash always hits non-white creators the hardest.

there's a popular twitter artist right now who is getting called out for ai on a drawing, because people are circulating screenshots from two years ago when they were excited about the possibilities that AI offered for going back to making their comic again which had slowed to a crawl because of their RSI. only the thing is the drawing they're getting accused of using AI for has no ai use in it at all, and they've needed to publicly publish their patreon exclusive process video to prove this to an internet mob because of the influx of hate they're getting! good job protecting artists, guys!

#genuinely i don't think people would be throwing this much of a kerfuffle if yuumei was white #or even any race that's not Chinese specifically #the sinophobia in the west is getting insane and i have a feeling this is gonna hit a lot of Asian artists #even if they're not Chinese they're going you get dragged into it #the other big ai backlash that i can think of is also against a Chinese artist #and whether you believe it or not (personally i do believe the evidence for that one) it still got blown way out of proportion #like yeah people are acting like they're so personally betrayed because this artist is known for environmental advocacy #but the fact that they're criticizing her from this angle just proves they haven't actually looked at the evidence concerning #ai and water use #like it just feels like they're grasping at a reason to make more drama. yk.#she literally didn't use ai btw. and people are still acting like this.#also the “ai is stealing jobs from artists” statement that people are perpetuating in the replies is making me a little insane #yes. ai is stealing jobs.#FROM WRITERS.#IT'S TAKING THE JOBS OF SEO-FOCUSED GHOSTWRITERS. if you want to do ai focused advocacy that's where your effort should be going!#but that's not a fun glamorous job and no one cared about them in the first place and no one cares now :|

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