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05/08/12(Tue)05:07 No.5813026>>5811475
No, not just the dressing up. The concept of their creation to begin with.
A
less understanding, less liberal man than me would also complain that
they're being cosplayed by someone who isn't even a regular on the board
in question. Now, I know, there are exceptions (Voldemort, Minax, Todd,
I guess?) but most could probably not do justice to the board's
mentality, for it is unfamiliar to them. Coincidentally, those may well
be the boards that had no say in the creation of their mascot.
Kind
of like, you're making a movie, you have a few starring actors that are
(more-or-less) good enough for their roles, but you also need some
black people in it, you know, to make the cast more... diverse. But your
only experience with black people is what you saw in movies, from far,
far away, and you're also too afraid to stand next to one of them, so
for safety reasons, you hire some white actors to don blackface and do
the roles instead.
But as I've said, that isn't necessarily the
actors' fault, as much as the director's (=the "board-tan" creator's),
and you need the actors (=cosplayers) do do the acting (=cosplaying)
after all, since the average user of a 4chan board is not quite as good
at it.
I'm not a moron you see, I'm not preaching to make you
see the err of your ways and suddenly decide not to do what you've been
planning on for months. I'm just pointing out it is an exercise in
futility when half the boards cannot even identify, or appreciate, their
live cosplay representation. |
