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Graywashing

The deliberate, malicious act of making art having characters appear much older and uglier than they are in the book, television, or video game series.
You don't go graywashing Philipp Lenard like that, he deserves to be remembered despite his nefarious work!
Stop graywashing Pearl because she's lit 3,000 years old already.
These people on Tumblr are graywashing their favorite characters like crazy.
Graywashing by FSRueful March 22, 2020
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gaywashing 

Similar to greenwashing, the act of adding something to your product, advertisement or TV show to make it gay to make sure you're being politically correct.
The new Token in TV shows is having a gay character or couple, even if the actor is clearly hetrosexual. "Every sitcom I watch has been practicing gaywashing. if they don't have a gay sub-plot, they're just not PC, so they have to add one."
gaywashing by King Kamehameha October 23, 2012

Gaywashing 

Making cannonically straight characters into gay or lesbian these ships are mostly forced and don't go well
Mostly done by lgbt+ community under the pretext of "there's not enough gay/lesbian ships so they have to force them"
Have u seen there's a lot of gay ships for that straight character
They really like their Gaywashing
I know they really look forced

Gaywashing 

Businesses and corporations coming out of the closet to cash in on World Pride.
Look at that business Gaywashing, displaying its LGBTQIA+ signs, stickers and flags.
Gaywashing by cfsSydney February 12, 2023

gaybashing 

someone, usually male, who beats up a homosexual, again normally a male. so in effect they are "bashing" a gay
Eric went gaybashing on frank
gaybashing by K-H March 18, 2006

Greywashing 

Turning characters with grey skin, or fur into different skin colors.
Roxy is grey, and this person playing as her is not, so they're greywashing Roxy!
Greywashing by Cubeuser January 4, 2022

Gaswashing 

Gaswashing is a predicament that crosses the definitions of Brainwashing and Gaslighting into a single category where one uses a combination of teaching a point of view that lacks sufficient evidence to be true and (often deliberately) manipulating another into doubting their own viewpoints and sanity to the point of threatening and intimidating the other into a psychologically submissive state where the victim is unable to willingly argue or fight back against the accuser.

Gaswashing differs from Brainwashing in that the victim is not in a conditioned state to believe and/or accept the accuser’s viewpoint as valid truth, but instead of accepting any form of criticism, the accuser escalates their dedication to the viewpoint that they have dictated for themselves, and (often consciously) switches to Gaslighting techniques to silence, intimidate or even harm the victim as retribution for not accepting their flawed viewpoints.

Gaswashing can be different from Gaslighting in that it is more often done consciously rather than unconsciously. The accuser will often refuse to back down at any form of criticism or scrutiny, preferring to force their viewpoint against any form of dissent aimed against them. Even if an opposing viewpoint were to have such validity outside those of the accuser, the accuser will more likely attempt to shut any such viewpoint down regardless of how much strength or exterior validity their opposing viewpoint would be likely to hold elsewhere.
e.g.: "A dictator will often punish those in their cabinet who have let them down with a fate worse than death known as Gaswashing. Because they know too much, the victim will be shouted at, tortured and intimidated into confessing to their alleged flaws. In the end, they are stripped of any motivation to conflict with their boss. This will happen if the dictator feels that imprisonment is not enough, and decides to set an example to be demonstrated to the rest of the cabinet so that they know not to challenge their authority again like the person or party before them."

e.g.: "Despite your claims, you continue to repeat the same cycle over and over and blame me for not being faithful enough to fix the problems that come with it. That’s not brainwashing, that’s not even gaslighting, That Is Gaswashing!"
Gaswashing by Larrold 16450 March 10, 2023
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