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the short version of this post is:
light skin =/= white and drawing someone like bdubs who could be considered a poc as light is not erasing his ethnicity, but drawing a light skinned poc as darker could be seen as erasing light skinned and mixed poc who are already overlooked
hermitcraft fans when the bdubs sponsor segment comes on (he is whitewashing himself)
to be for real this post is not about genuinely whitewashed depictions of bdubs that make him look like his whole family tree is white europeans cause that is fucked up no argument. what i want to know is why so many people seem utterly opposed to any light skinned bdubs
cause look i know that a lot of people make hermit designs based primarily off the mc skins, with respect to the humans behind them so that bdubs' mc skin is to be interpreted as dark because his background is assyrian, and the same shades on joe hills (previous) mc skin are to be interpreted as light because his background is white american. it makes enough sense and if you dont want to think deeper about this with me then fine but can i just say that bdubs very much has light skin. you dont need to be afraid of saying it okay bdubs the guy very much has light skin. notice i am not saying white skin
sorry if 10 year old images are not the ideal but id think these give a much better frame of reference than the images of bdubs alone that dont really provide full lighting context, which people usually use, so heres a high light setting and low light setting example
(from here on out i will be regarding bdubs as a poc for the sake of the discussion, otherwise this recent moment makes me think the labeling is a personal decision to be made by himself)
i would say its pretty clear from images that his skin tone is not the same as his white peers, but this is more about hues than shades. his skin is not that much darker, it is mostly warmer. i think it would be nice to see the hermitcraft fanartist community work on showing the subtleties of skin tones like this so that artists can portray different people more accurately and so that others dont think bdubs is getting whitewashed if he's any lighter than steve.
why does this even matter? obviously the diversity of the server means a lot to the community, so we are happy there is a person of color on it and we want to represent that. but given that the ethnicity of the real bdubs is what you want to celebrate, why would you use the color of his mc skin rather than his real skin tone? regardless of intention the message that this choice sends is that racial diversity only matters if someone is dark skinned, along with the idea that light skinned poc are not ""poc"" enough. i dont have anything to wrap this up with its just some overly wordy food for thought maybe
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hermitcraft fans when the bdubs sponsor segment comes on (he is whitewashing himself)
to be for real this post is not about genuinely whitewashed depictions of bdubs that make him look like his whole family tree is white europeans cause that is fucked up no argument. what i want to know is why so many people seem utterly opposed to any light skinned bdubs
cause look i know that a lot of people make hermit designs based primarily off the mc skins, with respect to the humans behind them so that bdubs' mc skin is to be interpreted as dark because his background is assyrian, and the same shades on joe hills (previous) mc skin are to be interpreted as light because his background is white american. it makes enough sense and if you dont want to think deeper about this with me then fine but can i just say that bdubs very much has light skin. you dont need to be afraid of saying it okay bdubs the guy very much has light skin. notice i am not saying white skin
sorry if 10 year old images are not the ideal but id think these give a much better frame of reference than the images of bdubs alone that dont really provide full lighting context, which people usually use, so heres a high light setting and low light setting example
(from here on out i will be regarding bdubs as a poc for the sake of the discussion, otherwise this recent moment makes me think the labeling is a personal decision to be made by himself)
i would say its pretty clear from images that his skin tone is not the same as his white peers, but this is more about hues than shades. his skin is not that much darker, it is mostly warmer. i think it would be nice to see the hermitcraft fanartist community work on showing the subtleties of skin tones like this so that artists can portray different people more accurately and so that others dont think bdubs is getting whitewashed if he's any lighter than steve.
why does this even matter? obviously the diversity of the server means a lot to the community, so we are happy there is a person of color on it and we want to represent that. but given that the ethnicity of the real bdubs is what you want to celebrate, why would you use the color of his mc skin rather than his real skin tone? regardless of intention the message that this choice sends is that racial diversity only matters if someone is dark skinned, along with the idea that light skinned poc are not ""poc"" enough. i dont have anything to wrap this up with its just some overly wordy food for thought maybe
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