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Hellololo (doodle of sun lol)

I have a "maybe hot take" :,)

Changing a characters race from ANYTHING to ANYTHING isn't good.

This is coming from a brown arab who almost never sees any representation for my race/ethnicity!!

Whitewashing is very disgusting. It's usually meant for racism and such.

Now "blackwashing", I've seen black artists talk about it! Usually it's trying to make any form of representation since of course racism and colorism against black people is still very present, and so there isn't much representation.

I think we should make our own communities and ocs instead of changing canonically white or black or asian etc characters.

If I see someone changing an anime character for example who is in Japan, has Japanese parents, has white skin, is very in touch with their culture and stuff to being arab or brown in general, it would piss me off. I wouldn't feel loved or seen, I would feel uncomfortable. I have ocs from all around the globe! Black, white, brown, east+southeast Asians, really I love making them! And i would LOVE to see people represent my race by making their own characters instead of literally changing another.

Now, I'm not black, so maybe that's why I might not completely see or understand "blackwashing"? But still, I feel like changing something so important and sensitive as race just for your own representation is a bit,,,wrong?