• Lesrid@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      2 months ago

      If you have a circle of friends, invite them to post pictures of one of their hands. You will quickly discover that every hand is rather different. One of my buddies had a lighthearted meltdown over it. Not because he was ridiculed but because the game “destroyed [his] mental framework for thumbs”

    • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      381·
      2 months ago

      Oh no! People have sexual preferences and like a fictional character? How could this happen?

      Also the quote is obviously fake, but don’t go looking into anything before you get mad. That would be far too sensible for the internet.

      • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
        322·
        2 months ago

        Depends how you want to define PoC.

        The author is fair skinned, like most Japanese.

        So this quote does kinda come off as fetishistic.

        Here’s the kicker though - who cares?

        Author of a manga likes brown girls. If that bothers anyone, go find something worth giving a fuck about.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 months ago

          Having an attraction =/= having a fetish.

          Also, such a weird backwards idea… “fetishizing people of colour”.

      • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
        530·
        2 months ago

        Sure, sure. I highly doubt this quote is real, though the author being Japanese and saying this character is “tan” so they can see “cute brown girls” cosplaying does not make it better. It is also almost certain that all the commenters and upvoters of this trash are white.

        • malaknight@programming.dev
          155·
          2 months ago

          ‘Tan’ is an honorific meaning cute girl. It’s an even cutesier version of ‘chan’, if you are familiar with that honorific. These two honorifics are most commonly used when addressing familiar, young girls and has nothing to do with their skin color.

          • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
            131·
            2 months ago

            I don’t think that’s how it’s being used in that quote. “I made her tan so I could see cute brown girls” doesn’t make sense if it’s being used an an honorific because, like you said, it has nothing to do with skin color. It’s like saying “I used -Sama so I could see cute brown girls.”

            • malaknight@programming.devEnglish
              101·
              2 months ago

              The full quote is: “I only made Nagatoro tan was so I could see cute brown women cosplay as her”. The important bit is the phrase “Nagatoro tan” traditionally this would be romanized as “Nagatoro-tan” so it appears ambiguous.

              Now it could be argued that since there is no punctuation that you’re read is correct, but seeing as the quote is from a Japanese author I personally see it being a misquoted honorific as much more likely.