I logged back on NG just to post this real quick.

Either way:

I've officially had enough. Enough of everything. I don't understand why this keeps on happening and how nobody as a collective is calling out the hypocrisy that is one type of race-swapping that is bad while the other is good.

You redraw and edit canonically Asian and white characters to be black, yet turn around to harass, doxx and drive random artists off the Internet for drawing a black or otherwise dark-skinned character a shade or two lighter, with no 'ethnic' fratures, or with the wrong hair texture, all without any racial motivation.

You have spent 9 years doing this shit, and I'm not surprised that the Japanese side of social media has gotten fed up and calling you out for the double standards, especially considering what happened with the mangaka of Pop Team Epic with his Marina fanart where he was forced to apologise due to the bullying he faced.

I'm not easily buying into the bullshit about how you want to "feel represented". If you want to feel that, then why don't you just go and create your own characters? Why is it so hard for you to do that?

Ironic how the same crowd that tells you how that one drawing of Deku as a black kid is "just fictional art" also not only harasses people if they draw Miles Morales with "ashy skin", but also puts a person and their family in danger and hack into their old accounts to spread real CSAM on it over lines on paper, another event that involved DanDaDan.

Speaking of Lynn, when a user pointed out how her so-called "black edit" of Ken Takakura (Okarun) and Momo Ayase was "blackwashing", she told them to "shut the fuck up".

But wait, there's more!

This girl has a history of race-swapping anime and video game characters, and outright denies the existence of blackwashing. She also calls detractors of her DDD edit "racists" and implying about killing them, and at one point "joked" about whipping white people. You can guess what the reactions would be if a white person tweeted this about black people.

If whitewashing isn't okay, then neither is blackwashing. It's either both or nothing. No excuses.

Blackwashing is also racist because it upholds the stereotype that blacks aren't good enough do their own thing so they steal it instead. Tell me how this is supposed to be progressive?

And before anyone cancels me, I'm black myself, and I have seen other black people call out this hypocrisy too. I might have had a different mentality before, but I've grown and learned now.

Obviously I do not condone the actual harassment Lynn faced because of her edit, but then again, you can't justify blackwashing while attacking others over the wrong skin tone.

Have you also ever noticed how they never uplift black stories or talk about canonically-black characters? It really makes me wonder if whatever they do is about self-representation at all…🤨