really? they seemed pretty honestly pissed, and it sounds like they have a personal grudge. if they want to refute that i'm totally open to hearing it, but personally i think the op of the original comment is right and they jumped the gun to accuse her (did they mention a gender?) of racism. this happens a lot i've seen, where people hold pocs to a higher standard than white people. the moment a poc says something they can deem 'problematic' (even when it's not really, like in this case calling a brown japanese person brown because...they are) they try and use it to shut down the entire argument the poc is making, even though it's technically sound. a bunch of goalpost moving, as the other op said.
i think iggy and the op who responded to her/him are right about anime. i'll admit i did this when i was younger too. it makes me kind of ashamed to admit that because i'm not even white, i've just been so ingrained to see 'white' as the default that i assumed for a really long time that asian people were mimicking white features in anime characters. i never thought that simple technical animation things like striking colour palettes to differentiate main characters, and large wide eyes being important for conveying emotion could be behind the anime style. ^^;; i feel kind of stupid now that i understand a little more about the process of animation and creating memorable characters, but i mention it because i think it's something a lot of people do.
Re: i have to ask...
really? they seemed pretty honestly pissed, and it sounds like they have a personal grudge. if they want to refute that i'm totally open to hearing it, but personally i think the op of the original comment is right and they jumped the gun to accuse her (did they mention a gender?) of racism. this happens a lot i've seen, where people hold pocs to a higher standard than white people. the moment a poc says something they can deem 'problematic' (even when it's not really, like in this case calling a brown japanese person brown because...they are) they try and use it to shut down the entire argument the poc is making, even though it's technically sound. a bunch of goalpost moving, as the other op said.
i think iggy and the op who responded to her/him are right about anime. i'll admit i did this when i was younger too. it makes me kind of ashamed to admit that because i'm not even white, i've just been so ingrained to see 'white' as the default that i assumed for a really long time that asian people were mimicking white features in anime characters. i never thought that simple technical animation things like striking colour palettes to differentiate main characters, and large wide eyes being important for conveying emotion could be behind the anime style. ^^;; i feel kind of stupid now that i understand a little more about the process of animation and creating memorable characters, but i mention it because i think it's something a lot of people do.