hey everyone~ i love the site idea and it's just a really beautifully coded site. but i feel like multiple claims on faces tends to make the amount of white/white-passing faces vs. poc faces more disproportionate (than usual). i just wonder if anyone thought about this beforehand and decided to go ahead or just assumed the claims would even out eventually
hi!
firstly, thank you very much! that is down entirely to pixie and mitchie, who are coding geniuses.
we are aware that is was potentially an issue, and it was one of the main issues that was raised when we were initially asking people for their opinions on the multiples idea. but what we said then was that this was an issue that wouldn’t be resolved by not having multiples. even without multiples people would have found other white/white passing faces to use, if the faces they originally wanted to use weren’t available. we are all guilty of doing that. if people want to use more diverse and poc faces, then they will, multiples or not. unfortunately there isn’t a whole lot we can do regarding this, as we can’t force people to make more poc faces.
thank you for coming to us with this, and as i said this was something we were aware of prior to making the decision to use multiples, but as i said above, we decided that not having multiples wouldn’t improve the situation. it was also why we had our followers vote on the issue, and there was a large majority for multiples and we agreed that whatever our followers voted for was what we were going to go for.
we are very away that there is a lot of white/white passing faces on the site and not many poc faces at the moment, and hopefully that will change, and if we can find ways to encourage people to use poc faces, then we will and we are open to any suggestions to help with this!
- hannah
