Hi! I am one of the restoration blogs.
I’ll start out by saying that I am East Asian myself, I’m not talking over non-East Asian people as someone who is non-East Asian, because I am literally Chinese, and a tan-skinned East Asian person at that.
Secondly, the ask was coming from an extremely biased view of what people actually do on these blogs. I can only speak on what I specifically do and how I edit my photos (I don’t know the process of the other blogs), but what I do before I edit them is I scour the internet to find their tannest pictures. Sometimes they’re not very tan at all, sometimes they are very tan.
Then, I take photos that look like the background of this post, and I make them look as close to those pictures I found as I can. I don’t assume I know what their skintone is or undertones are because I don’t, I literally go off of pictures I found.
But now I’m going to get to the part that I actually think is pretty shit of this response tbh, ESPECIALLY as someone who is Chinese. Colorism is an issue that affects all East Asians, and to say that colorism in kpop only affects Koreans is actually pretty fucking disgusting.
Do you know how many kpop idols are Chinese (some had to leave because they were so abused because they’re Chinese but that’s another story)???? Do you know how many kpop idols aren’t Korean?? You guessed it, A LOT.
Jackson Wang, Victoria Song from f(x), Huang Zitao, Wu Yifan, Lu Han, Mark Tuan is Taiwanese, Zhang Yixing, Fei from Miss A, Han Geng from Suju, Zhou Mi, Jia from Miss A, Henry Lau, etc. are all Chinese, and that’s just off the top of my head. Yes, they’re singing in Korean, but they’re still Chinese, and wow guess what??? They get whitewashed too, just like the Korean idols! And that’s just Chinese kpop idols, don’t even get me started on the nonChinese, non Korean, east Asian kpop idols such as BamBam from GOT7.
Stop acting like Asian people live in a vacuum and that it’s only non-Asian people doing this, because I’m Chinese and my people are getting whitewashed and damaged from the whitewashing of kpop idols too, as kpop idols are just kind of indiscriminately whitewashed by people, regardless of where they come from. Once these Korean photographers washed out Chinese idols and non-Korean idols, it became our fucking issue too, as then it became pretty fucking clear that the issue of colorism to East Asians doesn’t only affect Korean people. You’re not going to watch people wash out Chinese kpop idols and then turn around and tell me this isn’t my fucking problem, that’s not how this is going to work.
The Chinese, tan skinned admin of bronzebun
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