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anything not featuring an all white cast is now ~tumblr pandering~? god fandom is so fucking ridiculous.

Sometimes shows try to hard. This is one of them.

Try too hard to do what?

How is it trying to hard by having a couple of characters that aren't white? The show doesn't make a big deal about their skin color. There is no drawing attention to it and no very special episode about racism.

The only people making a big deal of it are people online. Not the show itself.

It's not about the characters races, it's about everything. It's like the show is telling you CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE.

Are we even watching the same show? Because I don't get that at all. How is the show telling you that? Examples are needed.

Just look at the character designs.

What about them? How are they pandering?

Fat kid, nerdy cute Indian girl, chubby purple woman, strong muscular black woman, flat tall woman. Not saying that there's anything wrong with them, but when you have all of them together, it smells of Tumblr.

So because there's a variety of body types, and two characters with a dark skin tone it must be pandering. I don't agree with that tbh.

Sometimes it feels to forced, like they are just doing it to be different and because they don't want to picture stupid cis white characters, and I feel this is one of those situation. But it's just my personal opinion.

You seem to be projecting a little bit. The main character is a white little boy and there's plenty of white characters. Maybe they just went with those designs because they liked them? Why does there have to be an agenda?

It's just my impression, nothing more. The problem with Tumblr is that most of the time they do have an agenda. I have had to deal with too many SJW in the past, nowadays I'm wary of them. I still get SJW hate from time to time for a fanart of the MLP girls just because I made them all white.

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They literally never draw attention to their skin color or body type. I make fun of tumblr as much as anyone but it seems like you have problems that go far deeper than tumblr

DA

There is actually something wrong with you.

Don't worry, it's not as wrong as you are.

SA

Thank you for your kind words. In reply, I admire your persistent, offensive stupidity in the face of all evidence to the contrary of what you believe.

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Only one person of any minority can exist in any given television cast. It's the television law.

Uh, it's called character design, man. Each character in the show is drawn to be as immediately recognizable as possible, from silhouette to color scheme. And they've done a very good job of it. Do you really just want homogenous design or something?

Holy crap, that is a messed-up thought process.

So what I'm getting is that people have decided to have such a hate-on for Tumblr that anything that involves having more than a single token Different Person (or worse, people who are Different in more than one way) is dismissed as being SJW-y or something?

I mean...is the show actually bad? And if it is bad, is it bad for those reasons in particular? Does having characters of different ethnic and/or body types work to the show's detriment?

Everything that isn't the media-norm feels "forced." Because we're pretty used to seeing shows with certain kinds of characters and only a certain kind of variety. I just don't get why it's a problem unless it impacts the writing in some way.

Dude what in the fuck are you talking about? Give me one example. one.

DA

Maybe they are talking about this shitstorm? http://mc-burnett.tumblr.com/post/77234092384/hi-again-matt-sorry-to-bother-you-with-this-subject

that is a bit odd, but they haven't taken away her eye, so... not really an example of what's going on in show.

You should think about why no one calls Korra (a show that has zero white characters) tumblr pandering.

Hint: It has nothing to do with the character's race.

It's 'cause Korra has no fat characters, right?