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Someone used my artwork for an anti-trans meme...
2 years ago
Note that this post contains discussion of a potentially controversial topic.
This is my artwork of my original supervillain Power Pirate:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20933691/
This artwork was used in a meme on Facebook that just happened to come up in my feed.
The meme shows a post from someone named Daria:
"Not a dog, but I have a parrot that keeps deadnaming me no matter how much I correct him. I started transitioning in August of 2020. Last April I had my name legally changed and I have legally been known as Daria ever since."
Below that, it shows a grotesque cartoon trans woman yelling, "Stop deadnaming me!!! My name is Daria and I use she/her pronouns!!!"
To which the parrot replies, "Where's my cracker, Jeremy?"
And the parrot is my Power Pirate. He appears to have been run through a filter, but it's unmistakably him.
Here's the thing. Taken by itself, I think this meme is actually kind of funny. The idea of the parrot in real life continuing to mimic the wrong name without knowing any better, and then the one in the meme flippantly disregarding his human's wishes and demanding his cracker. And having that parrot represented as a big, buff, tough muscular pirate. Those are kind of funny ideas. If it was just a joke, that would be one thing...
However, it was posted by what appears to be an anti-trans page called Yell Gee Bee Tee Pride. I've never heard of this page before and I don't know why it popped up in my feed. I believe the wishes of trans people should be respected and they should be called by whatever pronouns they like.
This is the first time I'm aware of that my art has been used in someone else's meme. I'd actually be flattered, if only it wasn't being used by an anti-trans page.
This is my artwork of my original supervillain Power Pirate:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20933691/
This artwork was used in a meme on Facebook that just happened to come up in my feed.
The meme shows a post from someone named Daria:
"Not a dog, but I have a parrot that keeps deadnaming me no matter how much I correct him. I started transitioning in August of 2020. Last April I had my name legally changed and I have legally been known as Daria ever since."
Below that, it shows a grotesque cartoon trans woman yelling, "Stop deadnaming me!!! My name is Daria and I use she/her pronouns!!!"
To which the parrot replies, "Where's my cracker, Jeremy?"
And the parrot is my Power Pirate. He appears to have been run through a filter, but it's unmistakably him.
Here's the thing. Taken by itself, I think this meme is actually kind of funny. The idea of the parrot in real life continuing to mimic the wrong name without knowing any better, and then the one in the meme flippantly disregarding his human's wishes and demanding his cracker. And having that parrot represented as a big, buff, tough muscular pirate. Those are kind of funny ideas. If it was just a joke, that would be one thing...
However, it was posted by what appears to be an anti-trans page called Yell Gee Bee Tee Pride. I've never heard of this page before and I don't know why it popped up in my feed. I believe the wishes of trans people should be respected and they should be called by whatever pronouns they like.
This is the first time I'm aware of that my art has been used in someone else's meme. I'd actually be flattered, if only it wasn't being used by an anti-trans page.
I know, intensely stupid. Especially since the black gentleman who's image he co-opted, is one of the top leaders of the NRA, which was created in part to defend black people from the Democrat's KKK.