I love how this thread starts off with " the earliest known record *I* could find" and then people took it seriously like it was a FACT and are using it as evidence of the "pedophilic roots of ahegao"
When it was literally a white guy finding one example in ero guro
Because of this thread serious and harmful misinformation is being spread and linked to other issues.
It completely discounts how there are a large number of female hentai artists reclaiming their sexuality and how ahegao is used to show expression and get around jp censors
To claim it's roots started there when this person has no access to japanese literature that isn't even translated and dates farther back than what they "could find" is just
Also I feel like there's a huge disconnect with the person who made the thread and the people reading it at what "ero guro" even is. And to tie that in to stereotyping is so ... misguided.
I've seen daily witch hunts after my own and I just had to say something. I've seen such crazy stretches of the truth such as "ahegao puts Asian women in danger " IM SORRY WHAT? and doing "ahegao is racist" and equal to blackface
If you think ahegao is truly the problem. By that logic none of them would even support anime or manga as a whole. 🤪 but I don't expect much from people since the ones who attacked me didn't know the difference between lolita fashion and lolicon
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I grew up in a very poor city/school district and went to school with all black and brown kids. I got made fun of every single day. AND NOTHING THEY MADE FUN OF ME FOR WAS EVER AS BAD AS THE SHIT THEY HEARD FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD ON A DAILY BASIS SO MISS ME W THIS SHIT
They called me ms.swan because of my eye shape but white skin. It hurt my feelings but it is in no way comparable to being called the hard r by racist white teachers or being singled out as troublemakers for their skin which I witnessed with my own eyes
Also half the time my friends were just bonding w me. Poor kids be roasting tf out of eachother and thats how we get along lmao. Outside world sometimes takes it as teasing. It one of those kids came up and called me that today I would hug them
Twitter used to feel like a place I could come to escape the bullshit of reality now I have to read tweets about how fucked up my country is every 3 minutes and I'm kinda not vibing w it lmao
Even if you don't follow political accounts that shit comes on your Twitter anyways and twitter acts more like a news outlet now. Its good to stay informed but a bitch needs an escape
Ima go on tumblr where there's sugar daddy bots and no porn rip