DiscussionAfter what felt endless arguments with TRA's on Twitter and Reddit over the SuperStraight label, I have noticed a few things....

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[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 28 insightful - 8 fun28 insightful - 7 fun29 insightful - 8 fun -  (3 children)

Many create the most eye-wateringly awful "art"

It sounds ridiculous but I swear to fuck there is a "trans art style." Like, I can tell if someone is a trans teenager by looking at their art. It's usually akin to the "CalArts style" (think Steven Universe and similar cartoons, simplified blobby shapes, bean shaped mouths) but a lot more messier, often with scribbly lineart, and features that seem deliberately ugly like massive ears, flushed noses, and droopy eyelids. It's honestly unpleasant to look at.

If you want (many) examples, go to the image generator website Picrew. Picrew is a Japanese language art site for making icon generators, but in 2019 western/American SJW types mass colonized it and filled it with LGBTQ+ propaganda and shitty art. It almost sounds racist of me to say but there's always a clear jump in quality between Japanese/Korean created works and Western/American ones, but I think that's because yes, a low of SJWs are kids.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It almost sounds racist of me to say but there's always a clear jump in quality between Japanese/Korean created works and Western/American ones, but I think that's because yes, a low of SJWs are kids.

There's also probably an element of survivorship bias at play. Japanese or Korean artwork that is going to be seen by a non-native audience is probably going to be something special. All the shitty artworks fester in obscurity in whatever the Japanese or Korean equivalent of DeviantArt is.

[–]fuck_reddit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huh... so THAT’s where all the anime profile pictures come from...

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It sounds ridiculous but I swear to fuck there is a "trans art style." Like, I can tell if someone is a trans teenager by looking at their art. It's usually akin to the "CalArts style" (think Steven Universe and similar cartoons, simplified blobby shapes, bean shaped mouths) but a lot more messier, often with scribbly lineart, and features that seem deliberately ugly like massive ears, flushed noses, and droopy eyelids. It's honestly unpleasant to look at.

Apparently, it's also called thin-line animation, and it's because of this boring, easy to make art-style that I don't feel like watching western animation from the past decade. There are exceptions, like Infinity Train, but then you have the smorgasbord of aesthetically unpleasant(but still popular) shows, while they maybe well written, are never gonna be viewed by me and other people who are spoiled on Japanese anime and older Western cartoons. I just take one look at them and nope right tf out.