blackwashing 

The practice of changing the race of a character or person to black is often labeled as a means for white individuals to alleviate guilt about whitewashing. However, this assertion is inaccurate. White people often face discrimination from other racial groups and are frequently seen as the "default race." Both whitewashing and blackwashing are detrimental and should be avoided.

Person 1: "Changing character's race because white people are dumb and will never be able to understand how racism feels like, LOL!"

Person 2: "That's blackwashing and racist. Stop it."

blackwashing by epic02284 August 2, 2024

blackwashing 

When a character, usually in anime, is turned black by people making fan art.

"Blackwashing isn't a thing and if you think do you're racist."
"But you literally just made Killua black, that's blackwashing"

blackwashing by Mr restless December 10, 2024

Blackwashing

Blackwashing is an internet term made by racist 4chan and reddit users made out of retaliation towards black people where you make an existing character Black. But the intent behind it was made by black people to expressed their love for the character make them look like them especially around times where they either never had representation or representation was racist, or no thought put into. Do not confuse it with whitewashing or compare it Because whitewashing affects people in real life causing them death or generational trauma. (Open a history book)

"That's blackwashing"

Blackwashing by Apple_mist March 15, 2026

blackwashing

A word that doesn't exist. A bunch of nazi crackers on tiktok didn't like seeing "blackwashing" fanart of their fav anime character, so they took white in whitewashing and replaced it with black thinking they did something. Then have the audacity to say blackwashing is bad as whitewashing? Like yall sound stupid asf, getting triggered over black people wanting representation.

"this is blackwashing"
"you sound dumb asf keys (remove the e)"

blackwashing by C13rN July 11, 2026

Blackfishing 

When a white person has purposely made themselves appear black on the internet

Person 1: have you seen beckys new post? She’s literally Facetuned herself so much. She looks black!
Person 2: she’s blackfishing

Blackfishing by definitionzz November 11, 2019

Blackfishing 

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.

“Emma Hallberg is a beautiful mixed race Swede.”

“No, Emma isn’t mixed race, she’s just blackfishing.”

“They want to be black without being black.”

Blackfishing by Lebanese Bebe November 18, 2018

black washing 

When a black person plays a role in a white role

THE NEW ARIEL MOVIE IS BLACK WASHING

black washing by Kxy April 14, 2020