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It’s a matter of taste like anything else; tolerance of uncanny valley effect varies on personal level.
You can see some commenters like the above picture as well, even when, I’m pretty sure, most would find it creepy as hell. And these figures did sell for a good buck, too.
That’s not creepy at all,i found them cute.
Well, you’re in luck: Hasbro already proved it’s creepy as hell all on their own.
@Background Pony #7B54
Twilight being depicted with darker skin is done alot in fanart. Kinda surprising considering she dances like a white girl. :P
(Bad joke, I admit.)
See Draco2K comment below
True story.
Well, in this case, it’s just creepy as hell.
For starters, you can’t depict dark skin as actually black anymore than you can paint white skin literally white. Skin is a shade of coffee, not shade of matte paper. “Paint what you see, not what you think you know” is a common advice given to artists.
Second, you can’t lean too much on life-like anatomy and realism if you’re keeping cartoonish proportion and elements, which introduces the uncanny valley effect which makes you want to run away from the thing depicted very fast.
Third, pink hair, yellow sweater and green fingernails are a color scheme which could only be mistaken for good taste by someone with color blindness much more severe than even myself.
And a bunch of other reasons I’m probably not qualified to explain.
tl;dr: Black people aren’t black.
Oh, right. And the easy trolling from just pressing the downvote button and watching people talk about why it’s downvoted.
We had this one guy with 12 or so accounts downvoting humanizations just to watch people complain about it in the comments. Low effort high yield trolling.
For some, color chash; pink hair doesn’t work well with all skin tones. Others, waifu syndrome, meaning that if a humanized image of their waifu deviates too much from their ideal, they hate it.
And a lot of it is historical reasons. Back in Ponibooru, some people would troll the comments of non-white humanizations, as trolls are known to do. That lead artists to create more of them explicitly to annoy those trolls (the logic in all this eludes me as well). That lasted a while, and for many any reminder of those events is bitter and often seen as an intentional callback to that rather than an “alternative headcanon”.
I think the issue here is more about pure esthetic than racial prejudice.A black humanization fit better with Twilight for example who have laready hair of a darker shade of purple
IMO,a darker skin color clash horibly with bright pink