The act of a corporation or business entity engaged in the captive cetacean industry suffering financial loss and/or loss of reputation by not adjusting their business model in the wake of the documentary, Blackfish.
Since the documentaryBlackfish, at marine parks attendance is down and shares have dropped by 50%. They have been "Blackfished".
Commonly perpetrated by females of European descent (white) which involves artificial tanning (spray tanning and tanning booths) and using makeup to manipulate facial features in order to appear to have some type of Black African ancestry.
The general point of blackfishing is for a female of European descent to appear of African, Arab, or Hispanic ancestry.
Some consider it to be equivalent to modern day “black face” because it capitalizes off the looks of historically oppressed groups of people by people who come from more privileged backgrounds.