Is that what I'm supposed to be looking at? Does it really count as a racist caricature if it is just some sort of weird uncanny valley image?
I'm guessing you mean blackface. But the person doesn't look at all black or even like blackface. There is just some weird tinting effect happening. It's like if someone described what blackface is to a blind person....but while trying to describe it, they had a mouth full of marshmallows
Sorry for my ramble and I hope this isn't offensive to comment. I'm just confused. Is it really even attempting to be blackface?
This is the original image. I cannot imagine any reason at all (other than a racist one) to do what they did in the post.
Does not change the meaning, does not add humour. Why would someone edit the tinting for it to look that way?
Also, adding in the Ebonics in the title (which I realize the poster also copied from reddit) doesn't seem to help the argument that this wasn't intended to be racially charged.
I guess what my ramble was trying to say is that I didn't even clock it as blackface because it's so "poorly done" that it didn't even come across that way until I read the comment and then stared at it in confusion. I'm not saying that it "doesn't count if AI does it", just that it's a confusing photo.
If it wasn't your intent, I would take it down because it certainly makes it seem like you were meaning something by it. We shouldn't be reposting that kind of racist garbage.
14 Comments
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 43 pts · 27d
Is this AI "blackface?"
athatet@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 27d
Yo whats up with the racist caricature?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 26d
I thought he was supposed to be a cross with Pepe or foul bachelor frog which made more sense.
dingus@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 26d
Is that what I'm supposed to be looking at? Does it really count as a racist caricature if it is just some sort of weird uncanny valley image?
I'm guessing you mean blackface. But the person doesn't look at all black or even like blackface. There is just some weird tinting effect happening. It's like if someone described what blackface is to a blind person....but while trying to describe it, they had a mouth full of marshmallows
Sorry for my ramble and I hope this isn't offensive to comment. I'm just confused. Is it really even attempting to be blackface?
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 26d
This is the original image. I cannot imagine any reason at all (other than a racist one) to do what they did in the post.
Does not change the meaning, does not add humour. Why would someone edit the tinting for it to look that way?
Also, adding in the Ebonics in the title (which I realize the poster also copied from reddit) doesn't seem to help the argument that this wasn't intended to be racially charged.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 26d
Yes. It counts even when ai does it.
dingus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
I guess what my ramble was trying to say is that I didn't even clock it as blackface because it's so "poorly done" that it didn't even come across that way until I read the comment and then stared at it in confusion. I'm not saying that it "doesn't count if AI does it", just that it's a confusing photo.
laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 27d
I dont actually know I reposted it from reddit
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 27d
If it wasn't your intent, I would take it down because it certainly makes it seem like you were meaning something by it. We shouldn't be reposting that kind of racist garbage.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 26d
Maybe unpost it from lemmy, huh?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 27d
This feels dog whistle-y.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
It feels human-trumpety. Editing to the original to add blackface is not a subtle move.
tdawg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 27d
What's wrong with your face
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 27d
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