#blackfandom

[blackfandom]

For fun and also observation, I am thinking about doing a poll of the most anti-black social media platforms. I already know what's gonna take up at least most of the poll but I wanna hear what everyone else has to say.

If yall wanna do it, give me some social platforms that you know has an anti-blackness problem and then we'll do a poll to see which one it occurs the most in.

This poll is mostly for fun and also to observe how bad anti-blackness on social media has gotten over the years.

Please note that:

Anti-blackness exists on nearly if not all social platforms. On some platforms however, the anti-blackness is much more present and sometimes even directly in your face. The point of this poll is to point out which ones in specific.

PLEASE DO NOT treat this poll as 100% accurate information. Once again, this is for fun and observation. Accurate polls should be done by professionals. I am not a professional 😭

On top of this, there a discussion to be had about how online spaces have become more hostile to black people and constantly parrot anti-blackness, sometimes in the name of defending something or someone else, other times (and most of the time) just for the sake of it. Seriously we need to talk about that.

[blackfandom]

Ngl, Black Transformer fandom experience is feeling super excited that people are making Black transformers and then getting super disappointed that it's only ever Megatron (Transformers big bad)

There is something off about that but I can't put my finger on it... I wonder what it is... hmm....

[blackfandom]

They defending blackface in cosplay on twitter now.

I'm not surprised in the slightest but I wanted that to be known.

[blackfandom]

So the TADC anti-blackness situation went from being a quote-on-quote "nothing-burger" to straight up some guy going into a public Glitch event and just causally shouting the N-Word and apparently to make matters worse the fucking Glitch CEO follows the guy.

is this still a "nothing-burger" or can we talk about anti-blackness with sense now.

[blackfandom]

There was a recent exposed of two voice actors from the amazing digital circus and white people are being insufferable about it.

Because the thing is, the vas of Jax n zooble have said nega (clearly an allusion to nigga) and were cacklin about it for minutes straight like it was some funny joke. And OF FUCKIN COURSE white people were like “it was seven years ago!” “they were younger, they didn't know what they were doing” “anythin for a drama”, mind you they were all grown adults when they did that and seven years ago was not too long ago, a child who was born around that time is like on 1st or 2nd grade by now.

To be honest, I also blame the people on the viewin side of the live for not speakin up about it sooner. Because they should have thrown a scandal, a big fat tantrum on the same day that happened. This should not have waited seven years.

But anyway, here in Brazil we have a phrase going “fogo nos racistas” (lit racists on fire, is quite what it means) n we lowkey should get that phrase and start doing as it says, or else these people won't stop.

You wanna y'know what's funny? My most recent post on my main was literally made specifically because of that situation.

And personal take as a black person: Regardless of how long ago it was or what the "humor" was back then, they shouldn't have done that. They were aware that making the joke was racist, but they did it anyway. I am glad that they apologized for it and are taking accountability (hopefully).

That being said, the way some people are treating this situation is just proof to me that a lot of people in fandom, non-black specifically, do not care about black people.

Fuck, some black people do not care about black people, which isn't a surprise to me, surprisingly.

The amount of non-black people who think they have some sort of right to police how black people react to anti-blackness is concerning, but also not surprising. Not to mention that some of the "wokest people you know" get hesitant when anti-blackness comes up. Some people are even making their own "nega" jokes, or saying that it wasn't racist at all (despite Jax's VA himself literally saying that it was...)

It doesn't help that some black people genuinely are joining in on anti-blackness. I remember seeing a tweet thread from (seemingly) two black people joking about how "Gooseworx should say nigga." It's fucking bizarre to me that some POC can't figure out why racism is bad regardless of how it's done or how long ago it was.

It doesn't really help that Gooseworx is saying silent on this, despite joining in on the joke herself and apparently, now being resurfaced, having some very bizarre tweet regarding racism to making very bizarre jokes about sexual predators.

Fuck, I don't even blame the black people who barely care about this situation, not because it was 7 years ago, but because at the end of the day, anti-blackness has pretty much become the new norm of fandom spaces. There is always going to be anti-blackness in fandom. There is always going to be people who are vocal about their hatred for us.

It's fucking sad that we can't even address anti-blackness without some mfs acting the fool.

[glitchy-haha]

Shy, but may I talk to about a fandom racism experience, I'm going through? Let me know if you'd prefer asks or DMs if you're interested?

I have considered opening my dms (in blackfandom) for people to be able to share their experience if they feel too scared or shy to say it in public. The only thing is with that is that I won't respond not because of inactivity from blackfandom but because I do not feel a need to comment on such when someone is sharing their experience to me in private unless they ask for input.

As of now, I prefer asks, but I will let you do share your experience in my blackfandom dms if you wish. Just note I won't respond unless you ask for my response.

[blackfandom]

Me lookin at the wicked/gelphie fandom calling Galinda a tragic character (her endin is a direct consequences of her damn actions):

Ngl I haven't watched any of the Wicked movies yet and I'm not in the fandom could someone fill me in please even tho I already have a feeling about what this is specfically about (this was an ask sent to blog that speaks about racism and anti-blackness. Putting two and two together here.)

[blackfandom]

We need to avenge the black girls who are victims of the disposable black girlfriend trope. May there never be a disposable black girlfriend ever again.