Oh boy, here we go again.
Alright, so do y'all remember back in around 2020 when Uzaki-chan from Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! became a controversy because her body wasn't considered "realistic"? And a bunch of assholes on Twitter started "fixing" her because her design upset them that much?
People are starting to do that again, this time with characters from the Boyfriends Webtoon.
Here's a couple of posts, captions are on the right:
(I could just rant about how the second one is transphobic as shit, but that's not what this post is about, nor do I have the energy. Oh, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but I am 95% certain that Goth is not Chinese.)
And listen, there's absolutely nothing wrong with redesigning characters. Like sure, okay, if you want to put your own spin on characters, draw them in different outfits, hairstyles, body types, etc. then you do that. Nothing's stopping you. But calling it "fixing" and insulting the original design while you're at it is extremely disrespectful, not only to the original character designer, but to other people, too.
All you have to say is "I redesigned it". That's it. That's the only caption you need to add. You don't have to call someone else's character shit and treat your own art like it's "better" or more superior compare to theirs. It doesn't matter what the original looks like, "fixing" a character, or any art in general makes you an asshole.
What really pains me the most though is that there's no major "flaws" with Goth's character design.
The Uzaki-chan discourse at least made sense. It was so fucking stupid and unnecessary, but it at least made sense. Twitter can't stand female characters with big tits or "unrealistic" bodies in general. Yeah. Not really news.
But to redesign this character? A perfectly "normal", "realistic", and not "overly-sexualized" design? It just proves that you're not redesigning him because it's a "bad design". You're redesigning him to offend the creator, and that's it (or, like the person above, because you're a transphobic asshole.)
If you label your design as "fixing" and call the original design "trash", then congratulations: you've just insulted every real person that looks identical to this character, and possibly even the goth community as a whole.
The Uzaki-chan controversy offended a lot of women because people on Twitter were trying to make it seem as if women having large breasts is a flaw.
So please don't do the same with these characters. Not only is it offensive, it's just a really shitty thing to do.
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