Virichie and fandom racism towards ships with black characters.
I may not ship Virichie as hard as I do Static X Frieda but Iâm glad and appreciate it being popular cause interracial ships with black characters and ships with black characters in general get very screwed over by fandoms. Black characters get very screwed over when it comes to shipping.Â
They face alot of backlash and hate. Black characters in interracial ships with white characters especially get alot of hate and backlash. In fact people will lose their absolute god damn minds when black characters are paired up with white characters.Â
Ships with black characters often get the least fan content if they get any at all. Theyâre the least popular ship. They could be a ship thatâs been canon for a long time but be the least popular ship in the fandom like Guardianbee for example. Guardianbee has been canon in Teen Titans for a very long time but its the least popular ship and has very little fan content. It doesnât help that theyâre not together in alot of media and the Teen Titans are more outside of comics so its a lack of exposure and racism.Â
They will make up all kinds of excuses to to why they donât ship ships with black characters in them. Theyâll things like âTheyâre just friendâ or âWhy canât men and women just be friendsâ and I totally get this as a girl who had alot of guy friends as a kid and was always asked if we liked each other but people say this alot to ships with characters of color. They say it way too much that its weird. The only one I agree with is Star and Marco. And its never said to all white ships that should just be friends. Also whatâs wrong with interracial friends to lovers ? Interracial best friends to lovers is really cool. Its one of the things I like about Virichie and Static x Frieda.Â
Another excuse is Familyzone, they say theyâre like family or like siblings or theyâll straight up say its incest when its clearly not. They try to familyzone them when itâs never stated in canon that the characters see each other as family. Its more of a fan interpretation or headcanon. I see people trying to familyzone Virichie saying that Virgil and Richie are brothers but its never stated in the show that they see each other as brothers. Its just a fan interpretation. Just because you see them as brothers doesnât mean we everyone else sees them as brothers. I also use to see Virgil and Richie as brothers but not anymore so I get why people do but maybe donât say that about a interracial ship. I still see them as family but not in a incest way but in a âtheyâre a important part of the family like a family friendâ way.
Another excuse they say is its forced while at the same time shipping a all white ship thatâs forced. I understand not liking ships that are forced but just like the theyâre just friends excuse they say this alot about ships with black characters and interracial ships. And like I said before the only one I agree with is Star and Marco. People ship white characters together all willy nilly all the time but theyâre not willing to do the same with black characters and characters of color.
Another excuse when it comes to black women is she too strong. The strong black women trope. The strong independent women trope is progress for white women but its not progress for black women and women of color. Youâre saying that black women and women of color donât deserve love. Youâre denying their humanity. Not every black woman is strong and not every black woman can be strong.
My favorite excuse is the âThey donât like good togetherâ Its my favorite cause its very obviously racist like they do not hear themself. It doesnât matter if they donât look good together its about the chemistry, how they make each other grow and how the relationship fits the characters and story and other actual shipping reasons. âThey donât look good togetherâ is a very shallow and racist reason to not ship a interracial ship.
The next excuse(s) is a big lie and its âThereâs no good well written black characters to shipâ and âthereâs no good ships with black charactersâ The reason why its a totally lie is that thereâs alot of good black characters. You just need to consume more diverse media especially diverse media that star black characters. The problem though is that when people do consume diverse media they still only focus on white characters. I see this in the Static Shock fandom with Hotstreak and to a extent Richie. So consume more diverse media and stop focusing so much on the white characters. The whole âthereâs no good ships with black charactersâ It sounds like theyâre only caring about canon ships and thereâs alot of good ships with black characters that arenât canon and thereâs good ones that are canon. Youâre just not looking hard enough. As a mainly canon shipper you donât always have to ship canon ships especially if theyâre not good. Talisto Talia X Mephisto from Lolirock is a good ship and a low key crack ship and its one of the most popular ships in the fandom and it has a black girl in it. People will ship random white characters together all the time but wonât do the same with black characters and characters of color. Talisto isnât treat as a crackship, if people can ship that than you can ship ships with black characters in them. Thereâs alot of good black characters and alot of good ships with black characters youâre just not paying attention to them.
Besides making up excuses to why they donât ship interracial ships with black characters they will make a all white ship to go against it. Reylo and Snowbarry are good example of this. We call them racist ships cause they were made to erase a black character from their romantic relationships whether itâs canon or heavily shipped in the fandom like Finnrey. Reylo was very much created to keep Finn away from Rey and you can tell by how racist Reylo shippers are to Finn and his actor John. Snowbarry was created before the show even aired on TV when only the trailer was out after it was announced Iris was casted as a black girl. Reylo shippers and Snowbarry shippers act the same way to Finn and Iris. And I see this in the Static Shock fandom with the ship Hotgear Hotstreak X Richie. Hotgear was very much created to go against Virichie in the same way Reylo and Snowbarry were except theyâre not all that toxic and racist to Static but itâs still very much erases Static in his own story, his own fandom and is white prioritization or white favorism.Â
White prioritization is when white characters are prioritize over characters of color despite the characters of color being more important like being the main character like Static. Static Shock is a black lead cartoon when it comes to diverse media you shouldnât be shipping the only 2 white characters together unless itâs canon cause its racist to only focus on the only white characters in a diverse show. Virichie has no way or power to become canon but Hotgear was very much created to go against cause its heavily shipped in the fandom. Even if not all Hotgear shippers are racist itâs the existence of the ship thatâs racist. It doesnât need to exist. Same with Reylo and Snowbarry. You donât have to ship Virichie but you donât need create and ship a rival ship to go against it especially if it made to erase a black character.
This is apart of Fandom racism. Fandom racism is the rejecting of diversity in fandoms and media and the attempt to push characters of color and fans of color out of fandoms to focus on white people, white characters and white fans. Refusing to ships with black characters is apart of Fandom racism.
And it doesnât matter what type of relationship a black character is in. It doesnât matter if its a black man with a white girl, it doesnât matter if its a black girl with a white guy, it doesnât matter if its a gay, straight or bi ship. It doesnât matter if its a black character with another person of color. It doesnât matter if its a black character with another black character. It also doesnât matter if itâs canon, hinted/being built up to be canon or meant to be canon or canon in past or other materials like comics. It also doesnât matter if its some what popular, shippable and well liked, it will get hate, backlash and have the least fan content.
For the black man with white girl part I was thinking of Finnrey and Karolsen. Sure black man are paired up with white women alot in media but never in a big sci fi franchise like Star Wars. Comics do it alot too but never in comic adaptations like the Supergirl TV show. The racist backlash to Finnrey and Karolsen is why I donât care that black men and white women are paired alot with each other but I do agree media should do other types of interracial relationships besides them.Â
Finn and Rey actually were going to get together but Disney decide against, most likely cause of the racist backlash. The worst part is that Finn and Rey didnât even get together, and racists were still threatened by a black man being with a white girl. Besides being meant to be canon, it was just a strong possibility that Finn and Rey were going together and that driveâs them crazy. To this day theyâre still racist about Finn. Racist fans treated Finn and James like they were the Black brute trope. Like they were sexual threats to white women which is apart of the Black brute trope but theyâre the nicest, sweetest guys in their series.
For the black girl with white guy part I was mostly thinking of Westallen but also Thorkyrie and any time a black girl is paired with a white guy. Iâve made posts about this before with Winx Club about how black women hardly get to be the love interest or get to have a love interest especially a non black love interest. And by love interest I mean the endgame love interest cause the few times they get to be a love interest theyâre not the endgame love interest and the white character they were a love interest to gets with a white love interest. A very good example of this is Danny Phantom with Valerie and Danny and how he got with Sam. We call this the Disposable Black Girlfriend trope or Disposable Black love interest trope cause it happens to black men too.Â
Back to Westallen remember when I said people will straight up say a interracial ship is incest. They do this to Westallen all the time just because Irisâs dad Joe took Barry in when his mom died and his dad was arrested. Barry only seeâs Joe as a father figure. Barry and Iris donât see or think of each other as siblings. They never acted as siblings. The show never states that theyâre siblings just best friends. Iâm against incest ships too but Westallen isnât incest. Keep in mind that Iris has always been Barryâs love interest in the comics, yâknow other material. People never had a problem with their relationship until Iris was black.
For the gay bi ships part I was thinking of Dansen and Thundergrace. The Arrowverse has alot of femslash ships but the ones with white women are the only ones that are really popular and some of them arenât even canon. The Supergirl TV fandom likes to act like they were queerbaited and that there was no lesbian representation but they werenât queerbaited and there is lesbian representation with Kelly and Alex but since Kelly is black they donât care, almost as if she donât count as representation cause sheâs black. Kelly and Alex even got married at the end of the show howâs that not representation ? Its a example of how when people say they want LGBT representation they mean white LGBT representation.
This is getting too long so its time to talk about the most important part so really listen to this part. This isnât about shipping, this is about a pattern in fandoms in how black characters are treated. Its about how you think black characters are unworthy of being loved. Its about how if this is how you feel about and treat fictional black characters then how do you feel about and treat real black people outside of fandoms ? You probably donât treat real black people good. If this is how you feel about and think about fictional interracial couples than how do feel and think about real interracial couples ? Probably not good. This is about how black fans and fans of color feel unsafe and unwelcome in fandoms.Â
We live in a society were white people are the default cause they made themselves the default. So when white people are not the focus they get mad. Which is why ships with black characters are less popular cause fandoms are very white dominant. By always attacking black characters and ships with black characters has made black fans and fans of color feel unsafe and unwelcome in fandoms making them leave fandoms or have low interacts in fandoms causing black characters and ships with black characters to have less fan content and be less popular. Black fans are the pillars that hold up black characters and ships with black characters up besides unracist white fans. Black fans and fans of color support ships with black characters and characters of color more than white fans. They are more likely to support them than white fans. I have seem white fans shipping Virichie but the major are black fans since itâs a major black fandom. Some of the most recent Virichie fan art have been by white fans. There are Pick me POCs/ White align people of color with internalized racism that are racist to other fans of color and characters of color and its important to point them out cause they are just as hurtful and racist as racist white people.
Virichie being so popular with everyone is so important. The only time Iâve seen a whole fandom ship a interracial ship is the WordGirl fandom with Tobecky (WordGirl X Tobey). Interracial ships with black characters arenât that popular. Gay bi slash interracial ships like Virichie are especially not popular. The closest Iâve seen be popular is Finnpoe from Star Wars. Virichie being popular is a good thing. The only problems I have with Virichie is that alot of fan content mainly alot of fanfics focuses more on Richie and his point of view of the relationship than Virgil. This is the slight White prioritization towards Richie I mention earlier. Iâve only seen one person point this problem out. Thereâs only a few fanfics that focus on Virgilâs point of view on the relationship. I like it when thereâs fics that give both of their point of views. Like what does Virgil think of being in a relationship with Richie ? How does he feel about liking his best friend ? I also donât like how it dominants the fan content for Static Shock especially fanfics. Thereâs almost no gen fanfics and the gen fics that are there are unfinished most likely abandon. Virichie has good fanfics but I donât always read fics for shipping so itâs a bit annoying.
Virichie being popular is a good thing. Characters of color in general get screwed by shipping but black characters get it much worst. The only time I see characters of colors being in popular ships are light skin east Asian characters especially from Asian media like anime and Latino/Hispanic characters. Shipping is a big part of fandom, it can say some things about a person. Ship what you want but donât be surprised when people think youâre racist for refusing to ship ships with black characters and interracial ships with black characters especially when thereâs nothing wrong them and black fans are okay with them. Thereâs nothing wrong with Virichie, thereâs nothing with Friegil (Static X Frieda ) thereâs nothing wrong with Karolsen, thereâs nothing wrong with Finnrey, thereâs nothing wrong with Dansen and thereâs nothing wrong with Westallen and other interracial ships with black characters that get alot of hate for no reasons other than racism.

















