important announcement !
hello everyone. after a number of in depth discussions, the admod team has an announcement to make.
it has recently come to our knowledge that the concept of krp is considered problematic. we want to hold ourselves accountable and deeply apologize for the damage that we have dealt by contributing and advertising to the krp side of rp. the fetishization of koreans and east asians as a whole is rampant and awful. this was a poor decision by the admod team. by advertising to the krp tag, we ended up encouraging and affirming this behavior. furthermore, though we called yunhwarp an all inclusive directory for poc fcs, we did not uphold this title amongst the ethnicities of our own muses.
we cannot undo the damage that we have already dealt, and we do not expect any form of forgiveness for what we have done. therefore the admod team has decided that it would be in everyone’s best interests that we close yunhwarp. we understand this might come as a shock and upset for many of you but this is an important issue that has come to light and we do not want to brush it under the rug. we would like to use our platform to ask all of our members and those who continue to contribute to the krp community, whether that be other directories or indies, to consider the following points.
fetishization comes in a variety of different forms, ranging from microaggressions to racial stereotypes. though your intentions may be good when creating your muses, this does not negate the harm you bring to real people. if all or the majority of your muses are korean or east asian, take a thorough look into why that is the case.
if you would like to read further into the issues we have brought up, please take a chance to read the anti krp tag here on tumblr. thank you to those in the rp community who created posts educating others on these issues. we ask everyone reading this post to be respectful during any further research you may do and to please also be mindful of the rules of rp resource creators as many do not allow their resources to be used specifically in krp, koc, k indie, etc. communities
we hope everyone can understand what we are trying to say. we’re only trying to uplift the rp community and ask each other to do better. thank you for reading all of this, and thank you for joining our community. we wish everyone the best in their endeavours.
- one last time, your admod team. ♡