Thank you!!! Itās like, yeah, I completely understand the need to destigmatize body features and to promote neutrality but like⦠historically speaking? Society DOES favor certain features over others and thatās important to recognize even if you disagree with it, imo. Of course, exactly which features are favored changed based on things such as culture, location, time period⦠like, I was a kid in the late 90s / early 00s and I donāt doubt that, had I grown up a little later, I probably wouldnāt have been bullied the way I was because beauty standards have changed a bit since then. But like, itās pretty obvious people change certain features of established characters to make them more appealing to them and pointing that out is definitely not the same as going āhey I find those features unappealing myselfā.
Like, I was talking about male characters myself but this effect is much more visible in female characters when theyāre drawn by certain artists. Some people straight up canāt draw characters unless they make them attractive for their own standards! Like, if you search for fanart of say⦠Mei from Overwatch, a character whoās canonically chubby, youāll be buried in art of her having her usual breast size but a tiny waist instead. Same thing with Zarya, whoās canonically very muscular but is often drawn much less so.
And remember the whole thing with the Hex Maniac trainer from PokĆ©mon? I didnāt know that she canonically has small breasts in her in-game artwork for the longest time because every single fan art Iāve seen of her had her with big boobs instead.
Hugging you hugging you hugging you!!!Ultimately, though, I guess having people you never talked to come out of the woodworks to interpret something you wrote in the worst way possible is like, just How It Is Online. Iāll never forget that one time here when I said in the most obviously lighthearted tone possible that Tom Nook had a crush on K.K. Slider and someone straight up accused me of ābeing a pervert who wants to see them fuckā.