PSA: AI EDITING POC TO BE WHITE IS OFFENSIVE AND WEIRD
So this isn’t really musical related, but this account gets more reach than my other ones so I figured I’d make it here.
Yesterday I came across a Percy Jackson edit of Percy and Annabeth, but something seemed off.
For some reason I couldn’t find this exact scene, but THIS is what they actually look like
THEY EDITED A BLACK GIRL TO BE WHITE
Wanna see something even worse?
This is the ACTUAL SCENE
This creator made the “effort” of editing (using AI) to make these edits, all in the name of “Book accuracy”.
It is true, in the books Annabeth is a white blonde girl, and Luke is a white blonde guy, but wanting book accuracy is not an excuse to edit REAL PEOPLE to be white. The characters may not be real, but the actors very much so are, and these edits erase everything that makes them who they are.
The comments on these edits say things like “This is what Disney took from us!” “White people don’t get representation anymore.” “If the show looked like this I’d actually watch it” and any comment countering gets a million responses agreeing with the OP.
Fun fact: You don’t need to watch the show! No one is making you watch it, and it’s okay to prefer the books! There’s nothing wrong with that, the issue is that you’re erasing actual POC and using AI to make this slop instead of editing different actors or using fanart to make an edit like literally everyone else does.
After being casted, Leah (Annabeth) received death threats. A child received death threats because people didn’t agree with her casting, this is 100% serious.
Regardless of how you feel about the show or its casting, editing poc to be white is despicable and it’s awful to see how many people don’t see an issue with this
