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"

by Mr restless December 10, 2024

Blackwashing

Something that doesn't exist, because nothing ever turns black by washing. So more appropriate terms for the act of turning white characters black would be "blackpolluting", "blacksmutting" or "blackstaining".

BLM-Activist: "Blackwashing doesn't exist you bigot."
Me: "Exactly *trollface*."

by HansSchw4nz May 25, 2023

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."

by epic02284 August 2, 2024

Blackwashing

A term that doesn’t actually exist. Whitewashing and blackwashing are not the same thing, one has history the other one doesn’t. One is done with bad intentions the other isn’t. Black people may change a characters race due to poor representation in anime

Person 1: *changes a character’s race to be black*

Person 2 (usually white): Thats blackwashing!! 😢

by anonymous May 28, 2024