Is it just me, or does anyone else have an odd aversion to race swapping in general? I just really don't get the purpose.
Because race is one point that makes a character, their own character. If you cast someone of European or English descent to portray Black Panther, who hails from Africa, then you'd be destroying the characterization. Same thing happens in reverse, if you drew Hakurei Reimu as an afro-american woman, then you'd be disrespecting the character outright.
Some people don't understand that, and goes as far as creating raceswapped art-'fixes' of an artist's art, which lead to controversies. Mind you, this already happened BEFORE the BLM thing, but it gets worse after that. As Danbooru was created to be an art site foremost, we don't have any prohibition against posting these kind of raceswapping posts AS LONG as it was high quality, but there's a high risk of the post getting deleted afterwards because a) the comment section became a warzone or b) posting just to see people arguing in the comment section is just a bad conduct.
Because race is one point that makes a character, their own character. If you cast someone of European or English descent to portray Black Panther, who hails from Africa, then you'd be destroying the characterization. Same thing happens in reverse, if you drew Hakurei Reimu as an afro-american woman, then you'd be disrespecting the character outright.
Some people don't understand that, and goes as far as creating raceswapped art-'fixes' of an artist's art, which lead to controversies. Mind you, this already happened BEFORE the BLM thing, but it gets worse after that. As Danbooru was created to be an art site foremost, we don't have any prohibition against posting these kind of raceswapping posts AS LONG as it was high quality, but there's a high risk of the post getting deleted afterwards because a) the comment section became a warzone or b) posting just to see people arguing in the comment section is just a bad conduct.
As for the last bit I'm not really questioning why it's allowed, I'm mostly fine with it. More curious as to why people actually do it create the art to begin with. I would have assumed it's just the strange obsession with the social activists to make characters black for representation purposes; or making a black character any other race to purposely offend or simply a low effort way to alter a character. (That also would apply in the other direction.) However your point about it destroying characterization makes more sense, or is at least more thought out.
Some people don't understand that, and goes as far as creating raceswapped art-'fixes' of an artist's art, which lead to controversies. Mind you, this already happened BEFORE the BLM thing, but it gets worse after that. As Danbooru was created to be an art site foremost, we don't have any prohibition against posting these kind of raceswapping posts AS LONG as it was high quality, but there's a high risk of the post getting deleted afterwards because a) the comment section became a warzone or b) posting just to see people arguing in the comment section is just a bad conduct.
I don't recall any art being deleted because it caused a shitstorm in the comments, or hell even for the second reason. Good art stays, bad art goes. If the comments are out of control then mods step in and people get banned if necessary, user behavior doesn't factor into approval or deletion, or posts like this wouldn't still be here.
Because race is one point that makes a character, their own character. If you cast someone of European or English descent to portray Black Panther, who hails from Africa, then you'd be destroying the characterization. Same thing happens in reverse, if you drew Hakurei Reimu as an afro-american woman, then you'd be disrespecting the character outright.
Some people don't understand that, and goes as far as creating raceswapped art-'fixes' of an artist's art, which lead to controversies. Mind you, this already happened BEFORE the BLM thing, but it gets worse after that. As Danbooru was created to be an art site foremost, we don't have any prohibition against posting these kind of raceswapping posts AS LONG as it was high quality, but there's a high risk of the post getting deleted afterwards because a) the comment section became a warzone or b) posting just to see people arguing in the comment section is just a bad conduct.
Right just like with the Heracles movie/series a while back
Because race is one point that makes a character, their own character. If you cast someone of European or English descent to portray Black Panther, who hails from Africa, then you'd be destroying the characterization. Same thing happens in reverse, if you drew Hakurei Reimu as an afro-american woman, then you'd be disrespecting the character outright.
Some people don't understand that, and goes as far as creating raceswapped art-'fixes' of an artist's art, which lead to controversies. Mind you, this already happened BEFORE the BLM thing, but it gets worse after that. As Danbooru was created to be an art site foremost, we don't have any prohibition against posting these kind of raceswapping posts AS LONG as it was high quality, but there's a high risk of the post getting deleted afterwards because a) the comment section became a warzone or b) posting just to see people arguing in the comment section is just a bad conduct.
I don't necessarily agree with the idea that race is part of characterization always. In your example yes, but there are plenty of examples where a character is white because they're white, and another black because they're black without any distinction in culture or characteristics. A lot of TV shows in the 2000s were like this. Nowadays it seems like it's always a point of contention. Which seems... Counterproductive really.
Anyways, I'm vaguely wondering what the artists intentions with this was. In the sense that they seem to be japanese and swapping from indeterminate ethnic origin to stereotypical swedish traits seems a bit odd.
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