ok im sorry, but i personally find the picture of just troye (not with tyler) in the floating stars to be pretty offensive and antisemitic. idk if it was intentional, im sure it wasnt. the picture of troye alone is fine, kinda funny even, but putting it in a star of david (jewish symbol) turns it into a caricature of jews due to the fact that the image is distorted to make his nose larger. again, picture is fine, but the star sends the wrong message.
hey, thanks for your concern, but i can assure you that the stars are not intended to be antisemitic (in fact, i am jewish myself) and i think that, with a little more information, you might agree that they are all in good fun.
the picture of troye that you are referring to is actually from a video he did with caspar lee (which i’m linking to here). in the video, around 1:53, troye creates a character called frentus with the twirl effect in photobooth. i did not distort the image myself to make the nose larger, and honestly, i didn’t even notice it until i received this message.
we used to have more stars floating around, with bizarre images of tyler as well, but whenever tumblr makes updates, the image url changes and the stars stop showing up. the original files are on my friend’s computer, but i will try to make some more so that the intent will be more obvious.
of course i understand that good intent does not justify a microaggression, but as a jewish fan of troye, i don’t think that is the message that most take away from the stars. when my friend (who is not jewish) and i conceived this blog, we wanted to give it “something that the other troyler blogs didn’t have,” and so we decided on two things: (1) to post only original edits and (2) to incorporate the jewish faith into our edits whenever possible.
i am truly sorry if you were offended, and if–after reading this response–you would still like me to remove the stars, send me another message (off anon) and i’ll do my best to accommodate you.
♡✡♡ peace be upon you ♡✡♡
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