I have some things to say.
Now I'm not here to attack anyone, but I have something I've been wanting to talk about for years.
And I'm done holding back.
When watch movies and TV shows, we enjoy them a lot, but when it comes to familiar characters that we've seen a lot for years, we love them too
However, there's always something off about those same lovable characters that we've seen for years and I'm not just talking about how they act and speak, I'm talking about their Skin tone and essence.
For those of you that don't know fictional characters especially humaniod characters are almost always based on real people, whether intentional or not, fiction borrows from the faces and essence of real people.
Fiction Can't help it, without real faces where do those same lovable characters come from?
They don't come from nowhere, cause there's always a real blueprint and source of a real person that makes a fictional character real and alive.
But here's the thing, studios and fan artists are always defaulting characters to whiteness, especially anthropomorphic animal characters despite the fact that their essence reads warm, textured, and color toned.
Almost every character I've seen that's pale white skinned has literal warm brown or mixed features in their faces, personalities, and essence.
You can draw a character that was unintentionally based on someone real, you can color them pale white and give them any color hair and hair style but the silhouette and essence of the character never lies.
I've seen brown skinned characters get lightened to a tan and pale colored skin tone despite the fact that the silhouette, facial features and face shapes, and essence of the characters clearly screams either Black, Brown, Fudge, Dark, Chocolate, light brown, Sun-kissed, Caramel, Tan, Bronze, Fair, or Mixed.
Not all humanoid characters are white coded just cause a movie studio or company says so, cause they only default to whiteness despite the characters being black, brown, or mixed because mainstream media has taught people that white is the universal default skin tone despite the fact that it never was.
Just like how anime was never the default style for Cuteness and Adorableness, Real people and children were .
It's not okay to white wash black, brown and mixed characters because that's not creative art, it's identity erasure of real people who those fictional characters were intentional or unintentionally based on.
Erasing the true and real essence of a fictional character based on real people is erasing the real person behind them.
This issue needs to stop.
I hope and pray people understand, thank you and God bless you all.
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