I thought she was mixed until I read the OPCan we also discuss how most of her Instagram/Twitter is just yellowface?
This forum has this strange lack of imagination that makes people not being able to understand art styles, like, i have read a lot of people here saying that the villager in Animal Crossing is a kid
When he/she is actually a functioning adult
No. She's literally just White.
sorry, what about this is yellow face? the winged eyeliner?Can we also discuss how most of her Instagram/Twitter is just yellowface?
She's white and wearing make-up to deliberately give the impression that she's Asian.????
Genuinely curious what you mean unless I'm missing something here then I apologize
So she's got multiple problematic things going for her it seems. Content creators man.
She's a white lady pretending to be Asian too? Jfc
There is such a thing as keeping it aesthetically ambiguous in the case of Saint Seiya. And this villager could be read as an adult when it comes to the game insertion and context, but if you take this aesthetic to the discussion of sex, which is what we're talking about, it clearly reads as a child and rightfully so. The argument that we can read anything as anything, just because the author attached a numeric value to it, implies that this discussion is not valid, and that is not true. Aesthetics says a lot in artistic representations.
I mean, you're not wrong, like that 10000 years old dragon trope, but it's also true that, depending on the athor, some manganimes can be very ambiguous just for the sake of it.
Sometimes is fun to find inverse versions of said trope. This is from the same anime as before (Saint Seiya), this character is Saori Kido
She's 13 too
Yeah what do all of you think H-art communities means? What do you think those communities are full of?
People playing dumb about the prevalence of this stuff in hentai and other rule34 content, despite the obvious popularity of hentai and rule34 artists here based on the threads created here fairly regularly, is extremely transparent. Like someone made a thread about Sakimichan being racist a few weeks ago, people were being all disappointed by that, and she draws art of underage characters regularly. Her fucking profile picture was a pinup of one of the students from Persona 5.
Anyone who has ever been to a hentai website has seen shit like this. It's gross and harmful and it's everywhere on the internet. Stop pretending to be shocked.
Mind controlled by Japanese pop culture.I also thought she was mixed. Doing your makeup to look asian? Why?
They succumb to the overwhelming amount of fetishized kids in anime.
People were a mistake.
La Brava is supposed to be 21 when we meet her character. But, yes, it does reek of pedo-bait given her size.i was just thinkinging about dropping My Hero Academia after that questionable *at best* relationship between La Brava and Gentle started to come into focus. I mean, like... where tf did that shit come from???? Yikes.
i was just thinkinging about dropping My Hero Academia after that questionable *at best* relationship between La Brava and Gentle started to come into focus. I mean, like... where tf did that shit come from???? Yikes.
Okay, that's a seperate thing, but what's the relevance when I was talking about characters who are clearly underage?
This comic gets me every time.
But seriously though, I love anime (well, some anime) but I'd stay clear of anime fandoms, it tends to bring out the weirdest/creepiest shit in people.
Humans where a mistake.
I'm torn between this being actually creepy and it feeling like "they're no angel" dirt dug up to cancel a sexual harassment victim
There is a (large?) section of anime culture that normalizes and defends stuff like this unfortunately.
this is really good post, thank you.I mean it is, and if this actually an honest teardown, Mike Z wouldn't be referenced at all, the issue of BunnyAyu playing up the concept of sexualizing minors being it's own issue instead of a chip to negate a different argument.
But I digress, let's talk about this.
I'll admit, I had to learn and be convinced of why this was a big deal on my own because so much anime, SO MUCH OF IT, is sexualizing minors. Your favorite show does it, the show of the season does it, the show that was recommended to you does it, it is SO normalized and SO regular that it's pretty easy to not see it as a problem, which is in and of itself a problem. It's so normalized that cute buzzwords like loli and shota are considered jokes and tropes, something to laugh at while being fawned over. MHA is the most popular (maybe second most popular) anime in the world and EVERY SINGLE ONE of it's under aged female cast are sexed up. And it needs to stop.
But again, good luck convincing creators to do that when stuff like MHA is so overwhelming popular. Where the creator's own personal insert is literally the comedic pervert of the show.
I can totally understand why someone would need to be told why this is isn't okay. I've been convinced about why shows that I've enjoyed are absolutely toxic on the subject matter. I personally thought Made in Abyss was show of the year until I started talking with some people about how ready that show is to sexually abuse and humiliate characters who are under the age of 10 for no reason other than shock value. It's something that has to be taught and if you grow up in "anime culture", It can be difficult to see the trees from the forest. I get that.
So in BunnyAyumi's case, someone who's not only been part of that anime culture for the majority of her life but is mired in it as both her hobby and profession and is surrounded by people who continue to normalize this behavior, I can chock this one up as needing to be told. This is a lesson that anime fans have to go through, being able to understand that the media you injest has very real, very serious negative connotations that need to be addressed and can't be brushed off because "eh, it's all like that". I grew up around loli jokes because that content was always there starring me and those around me in the face. I had to LEARN that it was a big deal. I had to be made to understand.
Again, I feel like this is only being brought up because of other controversies but it's often in times of struggle that we learn about things we do and things we are that aren't healthy. I can only hope this being brought up makes BunnyAyu think about some of this stuff a little harder and not just blindly promote harmful material with harmful jokes because "that's what I always did growing up".
The sexualization of minors in all materials needs to stop. I don't see it stopping in anime or manga anytime soon, but that doesn't mean that the current course that most of the industry is on is perfectly fine.
I think "internet celebrities" have a tendency to lose some grip on reality. Not all, but alarmingly many. Just my opinion.
La Brava is supposed to be 21 when we meet her character. But, yes, it does reek of pedo-bait given her size.
Yeah I hate it too, she supposed to be 21 but it's very obvious why The artist designed her like that.
I love the "it's a different culture" excuse when 99.9 percent of Japanese people find this sort of stuff completely unacceptable.
You've been told before, even if you haven't experienced it before you've been made aware multiple times on threads related to this subject.Okay, that's a seperate thing, but what's the relevance when I was talking about characters who are clearly underage?
For the record I find a lot of that stuff creepy. But I generally don't delve into twitter's art or Rule 34 community so it's not usual for me to see takes like the one in the tweets in the OP.
I will say though, as not to just sound like I'm railing on Anime, that all the She-Ra avatars here of two characters who are presumably teenagers making out never failed to make me uncomfortable. But that's a seperate discussion.
I'm really not sure about the yellowface accusation? Filters yeah but I don't see the attempt to go for specifically stereotypical features like slanty eyes or the like.
Yeah I'm not sure I get it. Is she wearing make up? What is the make up doing for her exactly? Is it the the face she's making?
You don't?Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. Seems like reaching to me. Putting tips on your eyeliner doesn't mean you are trying to slant your eyes..
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. Seems like reaching to me. Putting tips on your eyeliner doesn't mean you are trying to slant your eyes..I'm really not sure about the yellowface accusation? Filters yeah but I don't see the attempt to go for specifically stereotypical features like slanty eyes or the like.
This bothered me on the thread yesterday and I'm surprised more people didn't call this out. We all know WHY she does this, and it's really just not right imo. I don't like it. And the pedosadism is just a cherry on top. It's really gross stuff that normalizes sexualizing children.She's white and wearing make-up to deliberately give the impression that she's Asian.
Yeah I'm not sure I get it. Is she wearing make up? What is the make up doing for her exactly? Is it the the face she's making?I'm really not sure about the yellowface accusation? Filters yeah but I don't see the attempt to go for specifically stereotypical features like slanty eyes or the like.
She's a Twitch streamer.Why did you post this on gaming side if you didn't want people to associate it with the MikeZ thing? She's not involved in gaming communities is she?
I was gonna ask wtf OP meant by "platforming" her. She was harassed and there was a thread about it because of the relevance of the Skullgirls designer. I fail to see how this thread is not an attempt to "debunk" her even if OP put in the obligatory "this doesn't change her harassment" phrase.
Why did you post this on gaming side if you didn't want people to associate it with the MikeZ thing? She's not involved in gaming communities is she?
Why do you care?I was gonna ask wtf OP meant by "platforming" her. She was harassed and there was a thread about it because of the relevance of the Skullgirls designer. I fail to see how this thread is not an attempt to "debunk" her even if OP put in the obligatory "this doesn't change her harassment" phrase.
I mean they are using the same filters/edits as Asian women so I can see where people are coming from but I dunno.
She's sponsored by G FUEL so I'd say it belongs here /sWhy did you post this on gaming side if you didn't want people to associate it with the MikeZ thing? She's not involved in gaming communities is she?