u/UmiSWrld

i hate that racial fetishism is just as prevalent in queer communities as it is in the wider cishet world. i hate how yaoi effects the way people treat me as an japanese transmasc with a twinkish figure. whether they are aware of it or not, people have a preconceived idea of who i am, my personality, and my interests because i am japanese. i have severe csa trauma directly related to fetishism, and growing up i foolishly thought i would escape the rampant fetishism once i was in queer communities. i was wrong. it’s still here, just different. it’s hard to find queer bipoc community, both online and irl.

people don’t like talking about transmasc fetishization. people don’t like talking about racial fetishism. i know for a facttt that my experience of being fetishized for both my race and gender is relatable to other poc trans people, in one way or another bc white people have specific fetishes based in specific stereotypes depending on whatever race/ethnicity you are. it’s fucking weird and gross. i’m tired of watching white queers latching on and fetishizing the nearest, most marginalized identities they can find, and thinking they’re woke and inclusive for it. most of them won’t accept the fact that they have racism they still need to unlearn and fetishism is still systemic and racist.

i hate that racial fetishism is just as prevalent in queer communities as it is in the wider cishet world. i hate how yaoi effects the way people treat me as an japanese transmasc with a twinkish figure. whether they are aware of it or not, people have a preconceived idea of who i am, my personality, and my interests because i am japanese. i have severe csa trauma directly related to fetishism, and growing up i foolishly thought i would escape the rampant fetishism once i was in queer communities. i was wrong. it’s still here, just different. it’s hard to find queer bipoc community, both online and irl.

people don’t like talking about transmasc fetishization. people don’t like talking about racial fetishism. i know for a facttt that my experience of being fetishized for both my race and gender is relatable to other poc trans people, in one way or another bc white people have specific fetishes based in specific stereotypes depending on whatever race/ethnicity you are. it’s fucking weird and gross. i’m tired of watching white queers latching on and fetishizing the nearest, most marginalized identities they can find, and thinking they’re woke and inclusive for it. most of them won’t accept the fact that they have racism they still need to unlearn and fetishism is still systemic and racist.

I’ve seen a few posts about this concept, and it’s completely hypocritical.

1. A lot of ai “art” is just somebody taking a REAL artists work, and running it through ai. It is directly stolen concept and character from an actual artist. If you “steal” it back, you’re just stealing from the original, real artist. If someone steals someone wallet, and then you steal that wallet from the thief, that wallet still rightfully belongs to the original person it was stolen from. It does not even out, it just creates a cycle.

2. You’re an artist. Use your creativity. Use your brain. If you need inspiration, look at real art, photos, the world around you, make something new. Dumping your creative process onto AI will kill your creativity.

3. Using ai for inspiration is still using ai. Even if you aren’t the one generating it yourself, you are letting it have a significant place/effecf in your creative process. You are giving AI more space to exist and be used. If you’re actually anti AI “art”, then why in the world would you use AI in your artistic process.

AI is bad. For a million reasons beyond just artistic integrity. The more you find ways to use it, the more abundant it will become. It’s deeply hypocritical and unethical to use AI in your creative process while calling yourself anti-AI. Shun AI from art in ALL capacities.