Yโall really need to treat Black People in the RPC better.
Ya know. I woke up this morning and I decided Iโve bitten my tongue about this long enough. This isnโt singling anyone out but this is a rising problem I see in the RPC and I think now is a good time to address it.
Y'all really need to start uplifting Black content creators and role-players in this community.
Like some of y'all really think itโs enough to have โBlack lives matterโ in your bios and โDonโt interact if youโre racistโ in your rules. But honestly? Youโre doing the bare fucking minimum here.
Time and time again, Iโve seen black RPers pour their heart and souls into their characters, hours upon hours researching/writing/drawing for their ocs while endless amounts of dollars spent commissioning custom art/icons of their characters, only to be told their their OCs are โtoo over powered,โ โboring,โ โnot my cup of tea.โ Meanwhile a white RPer writes a preexisting popular character from a certain media with just as much if not more power, and the RPC is all over them.
Itโs fucking exhausting to say the least and Iโve debated leaving the RPC for a while now because of it. Yes. I said, โa while now.โ ย Iโve been biting my tongue on this issue for a while now because I was scared of how people would take it. Usually when I bring up race with whatever community Iโm in I get told โnot to bring race into it.โ
But at this point? Fuck it. Iโm done feeling guilted. Iโm done being silent. Iโm speaking whatโs on my mind. Y'all need to treat us black RPers with a little more respect around here. And again this isnโt directed to my mutuals cause y'all are awesome and the only reason I stay on this hellsite and in this rancid community is because of y'all.
No no. Iโm talking to the people behind y'all. Skimming our backstories, dismissing our characters, telling us weโre too OP when bitch you interact with literal Satan, shut up.
Itโs not enough to just put โBLMโ in your bio, and โDonโt interact if youโre racistโ in your rules anymore. At least, itโs not for me. Interact with black muns & their characters, reblog their art they draw/commission, reblog their promos, donโt just use them as a meme source, RESPECT. BLACK. ROLEPLAYERS.
And hey, if you have a problem with any of what I just said, Bye. You know where the block & unfollow buttons are.
And to any black person that happens to read this. I get it. Trust me, I get it. Weโve been ignored, infantilized, fetishized, pushed on the back burner, chastised, criticized, and told our characters are the problem from day one. And itโs a problem. I feel your struggle, I feel the strife. Youโre not the only one who feel this way. And if you feel that way. SAY IT. Donโt be afraid. If your so-called โfriendsโ or โalliesโ unfollow you for saying it straight, then guess what. Theyโre not your friends to begin with. Period.
