If you’re white, you really really shouldn’t have your pfp on a platform be a Black or brown character. If you absolutely must, PLEASE indicate you white in your bio for that platform even if you put absolutely no other personal info, especially if you don’t post photos of yourself otherwise.
Because I just had to have this conversation with a moot ive followed for months recently that I thought was Black or brown because their pfp was a face shot of a brown character. So because I never had a reason to DM them like “Hey comrade, you’re Black right?” given they was visually publicly portraying themselves as someone brown, I was casually acting to others as if they was as well and considering them among non-white community members. Which led to awkwardness when I brought them up as that publicly only to receive a DM profusely apologizing to me for accidentally misleading me because they were white and European lol.
If your only visual representation is a person of color and you don’t expressly state you aint one somewhere, a lot of people will assume on first inspection that you’re a person of color as well and aint gonna go like searching your personal tag to find a picture you posted where your hand is petting your cat to confirm your racialization.
This doesn’t mean don’t like/post Black or brown characters but just. I promise you can pin that artwork or put link to it just the same, you aint gotta be out here wearing it as your only face 😭
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