#VOX YOUTUBE ASIAN GIRL SKIN#
Mainstream culture now celebrates artificially rendered influencers like Miquela, or figures like Poppy who fashion their personas as robo-entertainers … These figures - with their pushed and pulled faces, edited eyes, skin so airbrushed it looks like a render - are uncanny not by accident, but by design. He writes:Īs this techno-culture begins to celebrate a new, assembled view of self and explore its limits, the uncanny automata, the assembled human - the Asian body - becomes an ideal to aspire to rather than run from. Yet in the 21st century, the idea of becoming a “machine” is now desirable. Kim explains how the West has used the characterization of Asian bodies as “machine-like” to subjugate them. Last week, the writer Leo Kim wrote a piece on techno-Orientalism for Real Life magazine in which he dives into the bizarre world of internet communities that go to great lengths to not only appear, but “become,” Asian. “Non-Asians get to profit off this image of a sexualized little Asian girl, while actual Asian women suffer for is just one of dozens of white women who’ve been called out for capitalizing on harmful stereotypes by cosplaying Asianness. “You among so many others are literally training your millions of viewers to associate Asian women with sexualized children,” says. She’s referring to an account by the name of who has nearly 2 million followers and posts videos of herself in skimpy schoolgirl cosplay and wears her makeup to mimic East Asian eye shapes. “A lot of people have asked me to talk about this girl, who is not Asian but frankly looks more Asian than I do,” begins a popular TikToker in a recent video.
If you’ve been on TikTok, it’s possible you wouldn’t even have known you’d just seen someone Asianfishing. #aapiheritagemonth #aapi #racism #antiracism #culturalappropriation #asianfishing #korean #anime #stopaapihate ♬ Rainy Day - The Dwelling Light The YouTuber Sherliza Moé recently made a video about the line between experimenting with trendy beauty looks - the “fox eye,” kawaii makeup, straight eyebrows - and perpetuating East Asian stereotypes, particularly when said trends are accompanied by clothing or mannerisms that accentuate one’s youth or aapi month. Over the past few years, the discourse around Asianfishing has grown more urgent as East Asian cultures have become increasingly visible in the US in entertainment and social media. Consider Blackfishing, a term that spiked in popularity around 2018, when conversations circulated around Ariana Grande, the Kardashians, and ordinary non-Black women who adopt the aesthetics of Blackness and capitalize on it. In 2019, Lil Miquela’s creators released a vlog in which she - a digital avatar - claimed to have been sexually assaulted in a ride-share cab, after which many survivors criticized the team for using a very real problem in order to make their character seem more relatable.ĬGI influencers are an extreme example of something far more common and insidious, however. Yet its real purpose appears to be far more banal: Adopt already popular markers of Gen Z cool kids and use it to rake in sponsorship money from fashion brands without having to deal with the messy realities of managing an actual person. To reference a popular example, CGI influencer Lil Miquela was created by two digital artists to “create character-driven story worlds” on social media, which on its face sounds like an interesting artistic concept. Still, it’s become easier than ever to assume an almost entirely new identity online, without regard for the consequences such behavior can cause. Everyone who uses social media inherently portrays a certain version of themselves while omitting the rest playacting is the essence of the internet, to the point where, one might argue, our ideas about truth and authenticity are meaningless, or at least grossly incapable of adequately describing what’s going on. These boundaries are increasingly relevant when it comes to deconstructing online self-presentation writ large. At a certain point, the line between “typical influencer FaceTune magic” and “actively impersonating a minor” appears to be crossed. #AsSceneOnTubi #PrimeDayDealsDance #TubiTaughtMe #viral #fy #instagram ♬ Blade Runner 2049 - Synthwave Gooseīut if you scroll far enough back on her Instagram, you can see the slow transformation of an unmistakable adult into a rather uncanny-looking teen, despite most of the content - boobs, butts, a cascade of red hair - remaining the same. Fuel for p-words and profiting off of it doesn’t sit right with me.
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