Changing skin colour

[Selky]

so did i. cute that youre reporting an entire thread because people disagreed with your poor little feelings.
no, how dare you say that someones struggles dont matter bc theyre not out yet. again, as a fellow bisexual im absolutely ashamed of you.

You and others have just sat through pages of this thread diminishing several stories, using slurs and trying to diminish that they do in fact fall under slurs, and saying that you don't believe in speaking for/over POC opinions but you have multiple times in this topic.

Honestly, everyone needs to stop.

 

[peachp1t]

a woman who can't come out to her family because she might get disowned and put through conversion therapy: I sleep

a hypothetical white man being sad bc his father in law thinks he's a cracker: REAL [bad word]?????????

dude like ******* seriously??? jesus

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You and others have just sat through pages of this thread diminishing several stories, using slurs and trying to diminish that they do in fact fall under slurs, and saying that you don't believe in speaking for/over POC opinions but you have multiple times in this topic.

Honestly, everyone needs to stop.

using slurs????? slurs. really. please please show me slurs. quote my slurs.

 

[karosi]

lol what happened here

 

[Selky]

dude like ******* seriously??? jesus

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using slurs????? slurs. really. please please show me slurs. quote my slurs.

I don't need to quote your slurs. You know what they are.
You're sitting here hating on someone trying to quote that they have one story and you're foaming at the mouth because you have one user behind you spreading just as much hate.

Seriously, get a grip. Good luck.

 

[peachp1t]

I don't need to quote your slurs. You know what they are.
You're sitting here hating on someone trying to quote that they have one story and you're foaming at the mouth because you have one user behind you spreading just as much hate.

Seriously, get a grip. Good luck.

no you wanna say im using slurs i would like you to show me slurs. saying cracker and whitey arent slurs is not calling people slurs. thats like saying "cishet" is a slur. why do cishets and white people wanna be oppressed so damn bad
no-one called anyone cracker or whitey. i literally only used that word in the context of "(no "cracker" and "whitey" arent slurs.)" grow up.

also yall acting like naranjita sharing her experiences and opinions is hate is so pathetic. and any of you wonder why poc hate us.

 

[BubbleBlowinDoubleBaby]

I sometimes make characters with dark skin. Light skin, too! I don't view it as a representation of myself, rather as a character I've made living her own story. I like to write and I have a big imagination, so I really enjoy making characters who have their own story and connection to the world surrounding them. All colours are beautiful.

 

[Last_bus_home]

Going to chip in before this gets shut down, I have no idea what it’s like to be a minority ethnicity because I have only ever been the ‘unmarked’ ethnicity or a tourist, but in the past I have made characters of a variety of skin colours. I have never actually worried I might be being offensive because I don’t see those characters as me, they don’t have my name and they don’t live in this society so I’d never thought that I was able to understand what struggles they might have endured, in the sense that I don’t imagine the world of monster hunter contains racism, and if it did it would be human vs wyverian not ethnicity based, same goes for skyrim, I have played as assorted races because it does not have the same sociocultural backdrop as our world, but if a game were set in our world, I would probably stick to my skin tone because there’s a sense of inauthenticity I would have otherwise, I know what it’s like to be many things, but an ethnic minority isn’t one of them. I know what it’s like to have people look at you differently to the ‘average’ person, but just for other reasons and I would not think to compare them because those differences (in reasons people treat people differently) are nuanced. In AC, I play my natural skin colour.

 

[Bees?]

hi, as a person who is afro latina

now while I might be a bit miffed by this, It doesn't really go farther than that. I don't really care if your IG character is dark but you're pale. I have more important things to worry about than someone changing their colour in a videogame. Like how people in my city are being brutalized by police.

There are just more issues to press on than this. I feel like quarantine is driving people to make some wild statements honestly.

 

[peachp1t]

(not a response to the previous person)
thinkin abt it yall are really going to remember this as me going "waaah making your character a different skin color is racist!!!" so just gonna quote the statements that were actually about the topic:

im white so im not trying to talk over any poc, but the general consensus for slice-of-life games like this seems to be that if its supposed to be you exactly, its usually best make it as close to your race as possible. there are really really big issues surrounding the aestheticization of poc and darker skintones, so a good rule of thumb is to make your self-insert your race.
if its not supposed to be you, go wild babey!!! as long as youre not using racist stereotypes youre good my guys <3

i think non-poc dont get to decide if its harmful or not, personally. we wouldnt be being harmed
anyways i dont think anyones really saying "dont do that!!" more "be careful and do it respectfully" <3

(also im not talking to anyone specifically there, just stating an opinion on it generally!! dont want to assume anyones race, its impolite)

 

[slzzpz]

I'd like to clarify that I'm also white!

White person with the name naranjita?

lol

Cultural appropriation or something along those lines by the logic in some of the replies in this thread, right?

 

[peachp1t]

White person with the name naranjita?

lol

i mustve missed that?? def made an assumption based on the username and the wording of the original comment, thats my bad :0c (going back to look)
hmm, misread something as naranjita finding the implication that white people cant dance jokes being as bad as systemic oppression insulting as them saying that they, as a poc, found it insulting. still appreciate the help nonetheless

 

[avieators]

ok this is sort of embarrassing but i have several ocs from an original story i'm writing that i adore and like to cosplay as in acnh, and only two of them have anything anywhere close to my skin tone (big white) so i do change my characters skintone v often! i dont consider my acnh character to actually be "me" unless they look like me currently lmao they can become a lot of different ppl,,,

i mostly make dark skinned characters in general in games and also in my head sdkfjsl, not bc of appropriation or anything bad like that, but bc i think there needs to be more dark skinned rep nonstereotyped in media. ofc i would be mortified if an actual black person said this wasn't ok but in the circles i've been in i've found most ppl do whatever in games and it's generally okay :3

 

[LuchaSloth]

I play as my own skin color...but, that's because I'm modeling my character after myself. There's certainly no reason why someone can't make any character they want, though. Make a female if you're a male...make a male if you're a female...set the skin tone to whatever you want. It's only a video game. I feel the same about it as I do about playing as any character in a video game.

Many people like to create original characters in video games, rather than playing as themselves. So...the more power to em. Obviously, you know...there are exceptions to that (like most things)...but, if you're creating a character for the genuine sake of enjoying the way he/she looks, with no malicious intent...then, there's no person on this planet who should tell you that's wrong. Play as yourself, or make up a completely unique character. That's what games are about.

 

[catmoths]

I mean....as we can all see here this is kind of a sensitive issue lol. I’m a Black American and it definitely peeves me when people make their avatars darker because it’s “cute” (it’s less cute the 50th time someone asks if your hair is real) but at the end of the day I don’t actually care that much. This kind of stuff is so personal and has so much grey area that there isn’t a right answer.

 

[morthael]

as an asian poc that grew up in a country where darker tones were considered “dirty” and “low-class”, etc. but pale tones were something to be achieved to the point my home country turned to bleaching their skins and such, it’s definitely harmful when you’re changing your skin tone within the game because you see it as an aesthetic, “cute”, etc. it’s not entirely fair when you’re allowed to remove yourself from the repercussions of having a melanin body when actual poc have to live in it.

BUT if you’re doing it because you think of your character in game as someone else other than you -let’s say an OC, then i don’t see that as anything wrong. the only time it really becomes questionable is when features of a poc body are used as a prop or an accessory by non-poc folks.

 

[michealsmells]

Your character should be whatever you want them to be! As long as you don't change skin color to be offensive, there ain't an issue doing it, in my eyes.