bangtanbighit:

thisisnotkorea:

Okay I’ve seen this wave of people on tumblr editing photos to ~make idols look like their natural color~ and honestly while whitewashing is a serious issue, however what’s more gross to me right now is a bunch of international kpop fans taking photos of idols who have a lot of makeup and lighting focused on them all the time and could possibly actually look like that on stage and in the eye of the public and randomly assigning our skin color on us as if you know better about what we and our skin color looks like. If it’s a photo that’s been blatantly edited w photoshop to be whiter yeah there is a problem. But there is also a problem where intl kpop fans are literally talking over korean kpop fans and editing photos to make it look like what your image of we look like onto us.

That is gross beyond imagination to me. Issues of colorism and shadeism should be discussed within our community. It is not gonna be solved by a bunch of non Koreans telling us that they know what we “really” look like. That they know better about our skin tone than the actual people who have them.

Honestly? There’s also a lot more variation to our skin tones than the standard, oh let’s make them darker and especially yellower, stance y'all seem to be adapting. Are there Koreans who do have darker, yellower skin tones? Yeah. Are there people who don’t? Also yeah.

Stop fucking pulling this shit. It’s super anti-Asian and racist.

-admin J

I never share thoughts on non-BTS topics unless completely necessary (and aside from covers) but please try to understand some of this. Colorism and racism are real and huge problems. Even so, just try to see it from this perspective as well.