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minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·1 year agoYeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoI know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
minus-squareanyhow2503@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoWhere does the white colonialism factor in.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down5·1 year agoKind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
minus-squareUbermeisters@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoIt was an observation. Not a complaint.
minus-squareShapillon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoTbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream. (e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)
Yeah everything steampunk has pretty much only white people… in my 40 years of seeing art etc.
I know of a black dude in a Steampunk band (Steam Powered Giraffe) but that’s it.
Where does the white colonialism factor in.
Kind of like complaining that there’s too many black people in your Afrofuturism setting.
It was an observation. Not a complaint.
Tbh it’s an issue with a lot of fantasy settings in our mainstream.
(e.g. cottagecore pretty much has an albedo of 1)