did you know people create surrealism to as an escapism from war?
did you know webtoon artists tend to design characters white as paper because of their country's culture of racism and colorism?
art is always related to reality, no matter the style.
"fiction doesn't depict reality" okay. no one's born with green alien hair. but when old disney did blackface, is it "just fiction?" doesn't that say a lot about reality? about the mindsets of people when that fiction was created?
some of yall being stupid just for the love of the game, i swearrr
thanks for bringing this up, because it gets so easily overlooked - or purposely glossed over - whenever these topics come up. defenders of whatever nefarious BS under discussion always want to say "no real human being was harmed" to excuse and wave away any scrutiny of the thing they're doubling down on, without any awareness or cognizance that no...... reply
