April being black at all is not OK. Make your own OC black reporter lady if you absolutely have to, but don't tell me a character that looks and acts nothing like they used to is the same character.
>Is she supposed to be half-turtle now?
That's the first thing I thought of as well. Really looks like they're trying to make it so she looks like the turtles she hangs around with.
Is it racist to make the fugliest fricking black people possible? There's some stunning black women out there, why do they have to go the complete opposite direction?
>There's some stunning black women out there, why do they have to go the complete opposite direction?
Because according to radlibs, making women attractive is sexist.
However, there's also the concept of "fetishization" which means if you find someone of a different race attractive, you're treating them as an object.
Therefore, making a black woman attractive is the biggest crime of all. And that's why black women aren't allowed to be attractive in media anymore
I hate that my choices are these guys and you guys. I hate that I can either be seen as a pet or vermin but never another human.
Just give us the money and let us make the cartoons. Half of us will make Static Shock and the other half will just make knockoff anime action cartoons.
>Supa Team 4
The screenshots I saw gave me Ghost Force vibes but it looked a lot better in motion. Kind of like an African Miraculous Ladybug. The villains even looked kind of cool. There a mega or something for it? See
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Kind of like an African Miraculous Ladybug.
That's exactly the vibe I got. It seriously reminds me of the comfy atmosphere of the first season of ML. Dunno if there's a Mega yet but hopefully someone notices and can post it
9 months ago
Anonymous
Just did a quick look and it looks like it only had one thread a while back that died pretty quickly so a mega looks unlikely. Looks like it came out in July twentieth and with twenty four episodes to start with. Bit of a shame it looks like there isn't any mega or anything for it. That would help a lot to get word out and some eyes on the series. A quick look turned up a torrent, but I know not everyone wants to use those so a Mega would be best. Here's hoping it gets one and some more notice soon.
9 months ago
Anonymous
That's a shame. Netflix for once is doing something relatively smart and not just dumping the entire first season, but it seems not many people have noticed. I talked a bit about it in the foreign animation thread. I'd be kinda tempted to make a thread about it but it'd probably die very quickly.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Ah, that second search result for the show was your post then. Yeah, looks like the show hasn't been noticed at all yet. Which is a real shame. Netflix is finally spacing things out, which is fantastic. Much better than the dump it all at once and leave it to die strategy they had done before which is a sure fire way to kill any online traction.
Here's the torrent I turned up. 720, but there's a 1080 on the same site which is easy to find. I don't know much help it will be, but a couple of screenshots showing off the show could help get a thread rolling. That and easy access to the show will do wonders. If someone could get a mega up and running it could get some steam.
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9 months ago
Anonymous
Thanks anon!
9 months ago
Anonymous
No problem anon. Actually heck, I like how much effort you are putting into this. Give me a bit and let me see if I can help out a little more.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe you should start a race bait thread. It's the only way to keep a thread alive on Cinemaphile.
9 months ago
Anonymous
They deleted the last black girl general for obvious reasons a few days ago so.
>I hate that I can either be seen as a pet or vermin but never another human.
Dont worry, that's been true throughout human history (real humans, not blacks.)
she being as unattractive as possible gives them the most woke points, which is the only reason they made her black in the first place. There's simply no point in making an attractive black female, it doesn't serve their interests in destroying western beauty standards.
not racist, but she would have been better received if she didn't have April's name attached to her. Yeah, I know the original April was black in the comic, but culture has moved on and yellow jumpsuit ginger April is who we all remember.
See this one is a cute rendition. The middle one in
https://i.imgur.com/sSkNpyr.jpg
HOLY SHIET IS UGLY
What were they thinking?
is also really good.
But dear God the two other ones. Look, I get it, not everyone IRL is attractive. But it just feels... wrong. I genuinely hope it was a black concept artist that drew these, else this is rcdart 2.0
>They raceswapped and genderbent fricking Chudjak >FRICKING CHUDJAK BECAME A BLACK WOMAN >They even made her a bullied femcel at school until the turtles came along and she rode their wave
These people won't let us fricking have anything, these fricking PEOPLE are trying to take everything from us and we're just letting them.
No matter how pathetic no matter how tongue in cheek stupid it is, they NEED to steal white peoples creations and make it black and female.
honestly they could of kept the face and give her the standard thin woman figure. and also make her a new character with her own personality than black April
You may be surprised by how little weight Cinemaphile's "do I want to frick this" chief principle of design matters or has ever mattered in real world contexts.
Fair enough, specially if you consider how the social variables that shape that particular audience are very much relevant to the average Cinemaphile anon
I hate when white people try to act like they represent the default and everyone wants to see ugly ass shit when they're literally 10% of the population.
No one else likes this shit except self-hating whites and worthless Americans.
It could be the case that it was a good artist behind this but had the film director, producer, or art director telling them to make April look like a fat gen-Z rapper.
Honestly the problem with the new April isn't that she's black, it's that she's ugly, squat, short, wide, and dresses in a way that doesn't even indicate she's April O'Neil. While it's true that Cinemaphile and geekdom as a whole can be bigoted...the average geek is fine with diversity (LGBT, race, etc) as long as the characters are cool, competent, sexy, interesting, etc.
But Hollywood has a weird trend nowadays where they conflate diversity with ugliness in an attempt to defy "modern beauty standards" while also being progressive...so you end up with a bunch of ugly dark people on top of being shoved into reboots so now you're left with Ugly April O'Neil Who Looks Nothing And Acts Nothing Like April.
Honestly the saddest part is that you could have made April stocky/fat/dark skinned work by leaning into April's role as the mother figure to the turtles; just make a short and chubby black mom April who loves the Turtles. It practically writes itself.
Might accuse the creators of making a mammy character or something.
She ain't even shaped like a woman. Why do these artists insist on erasing women's natural features? They erased her beauty and desexed her... And did this to the black version of her. Couldn't you argue that's racist?
>She ain't even shaped like a woman
that is probably the shape of the average american woman at this point
skintone too, if we give it another 10 years
>But Hollywood has a weird trend nowadays where they conflate diversity with ugliness in an attempt to defy "modern beauty standards" while also being progressive
In the words of the author >We tried making her relatable and grounded in the real world while keeping some of the details that make her so iconic. I personally love her in the film
It’s funny how they treat black characters as really important to get right and yet they frick them up every time. It’s even funnier when you look at Japan and how they have characters like Tekken’s Leroy and Bruce and SF6’s new DeeJay design and how they seem to be beloved by everyone. There’s some high grade moronation in the American media space.
Lmao, why you getting mad homosexual? He's right. Western media is in an arms race to make the ugliest racist caricatures of black people they can while the japs who would rather stare at a black person from a distance like a unicorn but never interact can actually figure out how to make unique and interesting looking black characters. The race swapping is the wrong way to go about doing this shit, but if your going to do it, at least make the characters not look like some 1930s racist advertisement for tar baby homie black tooth paste.
I uh. I just want to find a way to balance out all the evil this image has created and all the pain it's inflicted. I think I'll be a nicer poster for now on.
>I'd shove face in there >Mfw I have fricked 4 different girls like this irl before
I hate that women's breasts and especially asses are connected to fat because it makes being as ass man with standards very hard.
Middle one is ok
Is she supposed to be half-turtle now?
April being black at all is not OK. Make your own OC black reporter lady if you absolutely have to, but don't tell me a character that looks and acts nothing like they used to is the same character.
>Is she supposed to be half-turtle now?
That's the first thing I thought of as well. Really looks like they're trying to make it so she looks like the turtles she hangs around with.
Is it racist to make the fugliest fricking black people possible? There's some stunning black women out there, why do they have to go the complete opposite direction?
I'm sure there's something about White Beauty Standards in there.
The average look is not attractive, but when you're fetishizing a race, you forget that very easily.
You need to go back
They just want to make people ugly in general
>There's some stunning black women out there, why do they have to go the complete opposite direction?
Because according to radlibs, making women attractive is sexist.
However, there's also the concept of "fetishization" which means if you find someone of a different race attractive, you're treating them as an object.
Therefore, making a black woman attractive is the biggest crime of all. And that's why black women aren't allowed to be attractive in media anymore
White liberals think they are being woke and progressive by doing this
I hate that my choices are these guys and you guys. I hate that I can either be seen as a pet or vermin but never another human.
Just give us the money and let us make the cartoons. Half of us will make Static Shock and the other half will just make knockoff anime action cartoons.
Honestly, I would love to see black people make more cartoons.
Recently a show called Supa Team 4 came out on Netflix and it's very good. It's set in Zambia and it's made by a South African studio.
>Supa Team 4
The screenshots I saw gave me Ghost Force vibes but it looked a lot better in motion. Kind of like an African Miraculous Ladybug. The villains even looked kind of cool. There a mega or something for it? See
>Kind of like an African Miraculous Ladybug.
That's exactly the vibe I got. It seriously reminds me of the comfy atmosphere of the first season of ML. Dunno if there's a Mega yet but hopefully someone notices and can post it
Just did a quick look and it looks like it only had one thread a while back that died pretty quickly so a mega looks unlikely. Looks like it came out in July twentieth and with twenty four episodes to start with. Bit of a shame it looks like there isn't any mega or anything for it. That would help a lot to get word out and some eyes on the series. A quick look turned up a torrent, but I know not everyone wants to use those so a Mega would be best. Here's hoping it gets one and some more notice soon.
That's a shame. Netflix for once is doing something relatively smart and not just dumping the entire first season, but it seems not many people have noticed. I talked a bit about it in the foreign animation thread. I'd be kinda tempted to make a thread about it but it'd probably die very quickly.
Ah, that second search result for the show was your post then. Yeah, looks like the show hasn't been noticed at all yet. Which is a real shame. Netflix is finally spacing things out, which is fantastic. Much better than the dump it all at once and leave it to die strategy they had done before which is a sure fire way to kill any online traction.
Here's the torrent I turned up. 720, but there's a 1080 on the same site which is easy to find. I don't know much help it will be, but a couple of screenshots showing off the show could help get a thread rolling. That and easy access to the show will do wonders. If someone could get a mega up and running it could get some steam.
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Thanks anon!
No problem anon. Actually heck, I like how much effort you are putting into this. Give me a bit and let me see if I can help out a little more.
Maybe you should start a race bait thread. It's the only way to keep a thread alive on Cinemaphile.
They deleted the last black girl general for obvious reasons a few days ago so.
>I hate that I can either be seen as a pet or vermin but never another human.
Dont worry, that's been true throughout human history (real humans, not blacks.)
>I hate that my choices are these guys and you guys
Imagine believe this.
spend less time on Cinemaphile, most people are just normal people anon
glad to hear it's good, it looked pretty good and I plan on watching
>spend less time on Cinemaphile, most people are just normal people anon
Not since 2016 they're not.
Because ugly black people are "relatable and grouded" lol
>White guy designs a black girl as ugly as possible on purpose
Some black or asian artists also do this btw, it's an entire fetish for them. we never escaped tumblr
If it's for a fetish I don't think it's tumblr
No fricking way
>while keeping some of the details that make her so iconic.
WHAT?!
Does that just mean the color yellow?
And a camera! They remembered April has a camera.
Imagine some white guy telling you that your race looks ugly but within a progressive lens.
relatable and grounded along side with giant anthromorpic mutants turtles...uhhu
she being as unattractive as possible gives them the most woke points, which is the only reason they made her black in the first place. There's simply no point in making an attractive black female, it doesn't serve their interests in destroying western beauty standards.
The rare case where the final product is an improvement, but only because the bar was so low to begin with
not racist, but she would have been better received if she didn't have April's name attached to her. Yeah, I know the original April was black in the comic, but culture has moved on and yellow jumpsuit ginger April is who we all remember.
>I know the original April was black in the comic,
shut up moron
you shut up, double moron
That one face looks familiar
Oh no no
kek
i think she's cute, but she needs better hair
This actually looks pretty good.
Lose weight
YOU FREAKING CHUD!
lel
See this one is a cute rendition. The middle one in
is also really good.
But dear God the two other ones. Look, I get it, not everyone IRL is attractive. But it just feels... wrong. I genuinely hope it was a black concept artist that drew these, else this is rcdart 2.0
She looks like a liberal arts or healthcare worker. I can respect that angle.
>They raceswapped and genderbent fricking Chudjak
>FRICKING CHUDJAK BECAME A BLACK WOMAN
>They even made her a bullied femcel at school until the turtles came along and she rode their wave
These people won't let us fricking have anything, these fricking PEOPLE are trying to take everything from us and we're just letting them.
No matter how pathetic no matter how tongue in cheek stupid it is, they NEED to steal white peoples creations and make it black and female.
new 'riant?
Get this b***h out of the kitchen and then thrown to the wolves
>that absolute 6head
oh nonono….look at the top of her head! lmaooo
honestly they could of kept the face and give her the standard thin woman figure. and also make her a new character with her own personality than black April
Gem
You may be surprised by how little weight Cinemaphile's "do I want to frick this" chief principle of design matters or has ever mattered in real world contexts.
Most normal people want to see attractive characters they fantasize about fricking.
I mean, sure, if we ignore literally all Asian media.
Y'know, that place that houses 56% of the planet's population?
Fair enough, specially if you consider how the social variables that shape that particular audience are very much relevant to the average Cinemaphile anon
I hate when white people try to act like they represent the default and everyone wants to see ugly ass shit when they're literally 10% of the population.
No one else likes this shit except self-hating whites and worthless Americans.
Do y'all say this because of Industry people bitter that they're not attractive and online fans don't fantasize about them
They are against beauty
Do any of these artists even know what black people look like?
There's a middle ground between "MS Paint bucket a white person" and literal primate in clothes.
It could be the case that it was a good artist behind this but had the film director, producer, or art director telling them to make April look like a fat gen-Z rapper.
Why do you equate cartoons to real life?
Get over it.
No. Frick you.
It's good to know that April being an ugly, fat dwarf was always part of the plan. Because holy shit that had to be deliberate.
Honestly the problem with the new April isn't that she's black, it's that she's ugly, squat, short, wide, and dresses in a way that doesn't even indicate she's April O'Neil. While it's true that Cinemaphile and geekdom as a whole can be bigoted...the average geek is fine with diversity (LGBT, race, etc) as long as the characters are cool, competent, sexy, interesting, etc.
But Hollywood has a weird trend nowadays where they conflate diversity with ugliness in an attempt to defy "modern beauty standards" while also being progressive...so you end up with a bunch of ugly dark people on top of being shoved into reboots so now you're left with Ugly April O'Neil Who Looks Nothing And Acts Nothing Like April.
There was clearly a mandate that said "April must be fat, stocky and dark skinned." All these designs are leading to the exact same middle ground.
Honestly the saddest part is that you could have made April stocky/fat/dark skinned work by leaning into April's role as the mother figure to the turtles; just make a short and chubby black mom April who loves the Turtles. It practically writes itself.
But at that point you're better off making her a new character.
Might accuse the creators of making a mammy character or something.
She ain't even shaped like a woman. Why do these artists insist on erasing women's natural features? They erased her beauty and desexed her... And did this to the black version of her. Couldn't you argue that's racist?
>She ain't even shaped like a woman
that is probably the shape of the average american woman at this point
skintone too, if we give it another 10 years
>But Hollywood has a weird trend nowadays where they conflate diversity with ugliness in an attempt to defy "modern beauty standards" while also being progressive
100%
In the words of the author
>We tried making her relatable and grounded in the real world while keeping some of the details that make her so iconic. I personally love her in the film
>While keeping some of the details that make her so iconic
Keyword: some
But what if I can't related to...whatever this entity is supposed to be? I'd find Gozer more relatable.
Yellow and a camera? That's all I can think of
So is there a reason why westerners feel the need to make literally everything ugly nowadays?
Feminism.
We were robbed.
So they planned from the start to make her ugly? There wasn't even any early concepts where she was remotely attractive?
>When a racist meme looks better than your diversity effort.
ESG on the brain.
Raphael: Hey, what happened to you? Why are you black now?
Leonardo: Technically there's nothing wrong, but you're fat.
Donatello: 'Obese' is the word.
Raphael: Now you're black and fat.
Leonardo: Shhh! Don't discriminate us! It's classic.
My girlfriend looks like this...
I knew a girl in highschool that looked like this and liked geek shit. She was cute in her own sort of way. Would it date her? No lol
>NOOOO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING I DON'T WANT TO FRICK THIS 5 YEAR OLD
who are you quoting?
>this is a five yo
Damn, what kindergarten you went to?
It’s funny how they treat black characters as really important to get right and yet they frick them up every time. It’s even funnier when you look at Japan and how they have characters like Tekken’s Leroy and Bruce and SF6’s new DeeJay design and how they seem to be beloved by everyone. There’s some high grade moronation in the American media space.
shut the frick up
I'm sorry you didn't get accepted into CalArts
Lmao, why you getting mad homosexual? He's right. Western media is in an arms race to make the ugliest racist caricatures of black people they can while the japs who would rather stare at a black person from a distance like a unicorn but never interact can actually figure out how to make unique and interesting looking black characters. The race swapping is the wrong way to go about doing this shit, but if your going to do it, at least make the characters not look like some 1930s racist advertisement for tar baby homie black tooth paste.
2 of those are men, It's understood why they were rejected.
The middle one is female.
this shit makes the final design look cute in comparison
They don’t know how to think
(They don’t know how to draw either)
>Porn artist makes the design 1000x times better
Hire porn artists pronto.
I uh. I just want to find a way to balance out all the evil this image has created and all the pain it's inflicted. I think I'll be a nicer poster for now on.
WHAT THE SHELL?
>I'd shove face in there
>Mfw I have fricked 4 different girls like this irl before
I hate that women's breasts and especially asses are connected to fat because it makes being as ass man with standards very hard.
unironically this is better because at least there's some kind of indication it's female
The one furthest right legit looks like a /misc/ meme.
Why does the left look like Wade from Elemental?