i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar
now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends
we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…
I know the jpop fanbase is small on here but the silence on the assault on a Japanese idol by 2 men is so worrying. Hating idol culture doesn’t mean you should ignore serious issues like this. If we don’t get this more attention Japanese media will literally ignore it because the group’s management is already making this girl apologize for HERSELF being assaulted in front of the men who assaulted HER. It’s disgusting and it shouldn’t go unnoticed.
Listen… I know you don’t think of it that way but purposefully making yourself several shades darker than you really are to have a different look is just socially accepted brownface. Go look at @fandomshatepeopleofcolor and search “tanning” if you want more info on that.
And if you’re worried about the lighting being the difference, here’s some more similar photos.
That really is more than just a tan, especially when she’s kept that shade her whole music career. And it’s definitely fair to say it’s blackface when you go from looking like this
To looking like this
I chose the photo with Nicki Minaj so y'all can see just how dark she’s made herself. In the same lighting she is even darker than Nicki.
I thought she was protecting off of her Latina heritage… is she even a Latina