Yell Softly Jinki

Lately a lot of skin tone-restoring blogs have been created and somehow fansites (and here I’m going to especially talk about Onew fansites) caught wind of them and had to tweet some clarifications:

@ontherecord_jk

 ‏@onewsama_

@onewrang

@snowflake_onew

In light of these tweets, I’d like to ask people to maybe reconsider the fact of restoring pictures as being a good thing. I can understand the anger and frustration fansites can feel when seeing their photos being edited; they spent hours calibrating and editing their photos in order to share with us HD pictures so we can get a little glimpse of our Jinki even though we live thousands of km away. I do not support whitewashing and I’d never do that, however you cannot edit a picture when you don’t know in what conditions it has been taken; the lighting, the make-up (yes bc sometimes the boys have so much fondation on their faces they look really fair),etc… Besides a lot of those bloggers do a very poor job at un-whitewashing photos and end up yellowshing them. The boys may be quite tanned they are not carrots. As ontherecord mentionned most of those bloggers have never seen Onew irl and so don’t know what his skintone looks like in the first place. This matter of whitewashing is becoming more and more hard to handle as several different cultures collide with one another. You need to remember we do not share the same mentalities, we were not raised with the same beliefs and that’s why you need to be mature and open minded and understand their points of view. The thing is the more you keep sticking to your guns and keeps telling them they whitewash their pictures, the more they’ll get frustrated and they’ll eventually stop sharing their pictures with ifans. Kfans already are very easily pissed at ifans for some reasons and this whole situation only adds fuel to the fire. So in the end I’d ask you please, instead of editing fansites’ pictures, to only share the photos you think of ‘not whitewashed’ and ignore the fansites you consider as ‘whitewashers’, in order to preserve that already really thin and fragile bond we share with korean fans.

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