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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davisc0994/ai-art-fat-black-sci-fi-fantasy-characters

As a young child growing up in Greenville, North Carolina, artist Alex Smith spent a lot of his time engrossed in the world of cartoons and comics, devouring works like Battle of the Planets, X-Men, and Doom Patrol.

In college, Smith first encountered science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany, both of whom he admired because “they were Black and absolutely, phenomenally awesome.”

“They both showed me that sci-fi could have literary quality, could be progressive and liberatory,” Smith added. “Just their ideas, world-building, and love of language fascinated me.”

He was hooked. “Sci-fi is kinda like my church,” said Smith, who is now age 47 and living in Philadelphia. “It’s spiritual and very much connected to who I am as a Black, queer person.” The problem with his church, however, is that there isn’t very much Black (or queer) representation.

Mainstream sci-fi features Black characters like Morpheus from The Matrix, Mace Windu from Star Wars, and Lt. Commander La Forge and Nyota Uhura from Star Trek. But in general, Black characters aren’t afforded the same prominence and screentime as their white counterparts. And when Black people are present, they tend to be cishet assumed and conventionally attractive. Fat, Black bodies are a rarity.

“It just astonishes me that fat people in general are treated and depicted as second-class citizens in science fiction works, or they're made to represent something like greed, lust, or villainy,” Smith said, pointing to the character of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune.

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SNCA

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>On the other hand, AI can be surprisingly good when it comes to skin tones for fat, Black bodies. “The images I generate are almost exclusively of dark-skinned folks, and a benevolent byproduct of racism is that AI has only considered Black, fat people as dark-skinned,” @fatniggaai said.
>@fatniggaai
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG

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>growing up in Greenville, North Carolina,
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS FUCKING NIGGER FAGGOT TRANNY LIVES WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE OF ME OH MY GODDDDDDDD AIGGGGGGGGGGGGGUGUGUUGGH AUEEEEEEEEEEYYYY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WHYYY MUST I BE CURSED THIS FATE?

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>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davisc0994/ai-art-fat-black-sci-fi-fantasy-characters

>As a young child growing up in Greenville, North Carolina, artist Alex Smith spent a lot of his time engrossed in the world of cartoons and comics, devouring works like Battle of the Planets, X-Men, and Doom Patrol.

>
>In college, Smith first encountered science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany, both of whom he admired because “they were Black and absolutely, phenomenally awesome.”
>
>“They both showed me that sci-fi could have literary quality, could be progressive and liberatory,” Smith added. “Just their ideas, world-building, and love of language fascinated me.”
>
>He was hooked. “Sci-fi is kinda like my church,” said Smith, who is now age 47 and living in Philadelphia. “It’s spiritual and very much connected to who I am as a Black, queer person.” The problem with his church, however, is that there isn’t very much Black (or queer) representation.
>
>Mainstream sci-fi features Black characters like Morpheus from The Matrix, Mace Windu from Star Wars, and Lt. Commander La Forge and Nyota Uhura from Star Trek. But in general, Black characters aren't afforded the same prominence and screentime as their white counterparts. And when Black people are present, they tend to be cishet assumed and conventionally attractive. Fat, Black bodies are a rarity.
>
>“It just astonishes me that fat people in general are treated and depicted as second-class citizens in science fiction works, or they're made to represent something like greed, lust, or villainy,” Smith said, pointing to the character of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune.
>
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>>1658
OHNONONONONONONONONONO AISISSIES WHAT IS THIS!?!?!?

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GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG

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>>1658
BW`C only Braphog

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>>1703
lold

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bro capitalized Black what a sigma

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everybody cares I CARE I love the black people and their culture

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>everybody cares I CARE I love the black people and their culture

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>everybody cares I CARE I love the black people and their culture

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Sh!t, accidental doublepost whoops



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