I'm talking about art/media where people seem to think taking an existing character and changing nothing but making the skin brown is okay and "representation".
The problem I have with this is that it's not actually representative in the slightest. The race-swap has no culture. It has no change in clothing or hairstyle, has no background, or even food that can hint at a minority being represented. It's literally *just* adding the color brown to an existing character, which I think is extremely lazy, rude (to the race of the character being swapped and the creator who made it), and quite frankly insulting.
There's nothing representative about adding brown to a character who's Asian. Just making a character "brown" doesn’t represent anything. "Brown" is just a vague label that covers a huge range of completely different identities and basically throws everyone "brown" into a crockpot. I find it incredibly insulting to see people claim they're representing a minority when they couldn't even be bothered to make a 5 minute OC on Microsoft paint- I'd rather have that than be "represented" by having #C68863 all over an existing creation. It feels like my ethnicity is nothing but a checkbox for someone to cross out and make themselves feel good about "doing the right thing".
Thanks for listening to my rant, and sorry if it didn't make sense. Feel free to ask me to elaborate and I'll gladly do so. (I also just want to elaborate and say this is not meant to be racist or discriminate in any way. I was expressing my feelings about improper representation as a Latino)