#lightwashing

[dceufandomhatespeopleofcolor]

Have y'all seen the casting for John Stewart Green Lantern ? They casted Aaron Pierre for John Stewart for the Green Lantern show on Max. I think he's a good actor but's too light skin to play John.

So I needed to look him up and like don't get me wrong this man is gorgeous but like...

THIS MAN IS GONNA PLAY JOHN STEWART GREEN LANTERN

wtf?!?!?!

why not Yahya Abdul Mateen II????

ughhhhh lightwashing strikes again.

AND BEFORE THE YTS COME AT ME ABOUT THIS HERE'S SOME READING FOR YOU TO DO

The History Of The Brown Paper Bag Test, The Discriminatory Practice Used To Exclude Dark-Skinned Black People

With origins in American slavery, this test was used during the 20th century to give more privileges to light-skinned Black people.

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[blackfilmmakers]

SO theres a children of bone movie coming out and amari (who is, explicitly, dark skinned which plays a MAJOR PART OF THE STORY) is being played by amandla stenberg...who is Not That.

Children of Bone is getting a movie?!?!? But also

If yall don't stop casting these lightskinned Black actors-

[inquisitor-apologist]

Just saw something absolutely horrible in the Andor tag. Why is he WHITE

[orlandrake]

I see everyone talking about how the live action ATLA will be removing Sokka's sexism as a plot point. However I have yet to encounter anyone discussing how they removed Sokka and Katara's melanin as well.

I mean it's not entirely whitewashing but it's definitely lightwashing.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

To be clear, I'm not even talking about the typical colorism of making unambiguous and/or monoracial characters portrayed by light skinned biracial and multiracial actors. I got beef with that, but the thing I'm talking about is within a production, when there are multiple actors playing the same role, and they can't be bothered to accurately cast.

I'm watching Westworld, and this adorable little girl that they let me form a connection with (who look so much like my youngest niece when she was little) ...

They turn around and bamboozle me with an adult version of her played by none other than that girl that had the audacity to steal the representation of Shana Elmsford in that Jem movie that none of us watched, and I personally cannot forgive.

So. Here are a few examples that I recall looking around the room whenever I saw the choices while watching some stuff.

This little girl in the flashback for Ava in Ant Man and The Wasp.

It's not a huge difference in photos, but photos don't be true to how the people look and It's difficult to find images as clear as the production when you're watching it. But, that child is not likely to grow up and look like that. They ain't eeem got the same eyes and Ava was on her revenge thang. She was not about to be bleaching her skin and getting light colored contacts in her revenge free time.

And I was double sideeyeing because that's not even the first time casting pulled that with one of Hannah's characters. Remember baby Dutch on Killjoys?

Maybe Dutch would change her appearance when she got older, because she really wanted tp detach herself from her past... But Aneela wouldn't have, so??? That's simply the form they allegedly grew up into. 🙄

And... I ain't never watch this, because I just didn't, but it's the most agregious example on this short list and that's the Ruby character in The Darkest Minds. Girl, looka dis:

Ruby grew up and lost an ENTIRE HALF of her DNA. Whoever was responsible for this was ON ONE.

[howhow326]

Hi, what the f*ck is this

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

I just-

Miia Harris is gorgeous but it still irks me to no end that they casted her for this role. And then, they had the nerve to darken her skin with makeup to make her darker for the part.

Just cast a dark-skinned black person to play the dark-skinned black person. For fucks sake.

She would have been perfect to play Howleen, or any other character (besides Cleo) tbh.

Can we just stop casting people who look white in certain lighting to play black people??

Like please, it's getting fucking old.

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ID- "Four photos of Miia Harris. The top two are from the Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards, the bottom two are her dressed as Clawdeen for the 2022 monster high reboot"- END ID.

[gracedcoup]

why’s it always this mf. obviously other card artists are guilty of lightwashing too (and some have gotten better!), but this one is especially prolific

This originally had some of their card art for Diavolo too, but upon closer inspection it turns out they actually ARE using his canon skin tone. Just…they’re using his skin highlight as the base color, which is a mess. It makes sense why they wouldn’t use the same gradient method as the in-game sprites, but a paid, professional artist should know better than to pull this kind of nonsense.

Additionally, they’ve apparently been using Diavolo’s skin highlight for Mammon and Mephistopheles’ base skin tone as well, despite both of them having noticeably darker skin. No clue where they’re getting Simeon’s skin tone from, but it definitely isn’t from his canon design.

Sorry for putting non-funny discourse on your dash, but the continued lightwashing of dark-skinned characters in this game shows a marked lack of professionalism amongst both the official Obey Me! artists AND the people who sign off on these card designs. The devs have stated that they’re trying to make the game more inclusive, but the fact this issue has been allowed to persist makes this claim seem superficial at best. I truly enjoy this game, and I don’t want the experience to get ruined for others because of something so easy to fix.