How can this be?
I usually don't read comments before posting, and in icon posts I rarely read them at all.
I just commented to an icon post, and then saw that mine was the ONLY ONE - on a post from the last week of JULY.
Did I mention these were all icons featuring people of color, and represented a nice range of human diversity in age, gender, and apparent ethnicity?
http://community.livejournal.com/book_icons/991479.html?view=5802999#t5802999
How can it be that a post of 115 icons - that was cross-posted to an active community by someone who has a following - has gotten zero comments in two weeks?
I don't want to think that LJ or fannish communities do not support or have room for diversity. I cannot imagine that there is no call for these icons. I understand that people will likely choose images that they feel are representative of themselves in some way, and a good portion of LJ users are Caucasian, but I have a number of icons that feature people of color, and I cannot be the only one.
I am bewildered and afraid to think about this too hard, because I don't want to negatively affect my viewpoint by assuming the worst, but I don't know what else to think. Does anyone have ideas about this?
*ponders*
I think I'm going to make a poll.
:(
I just commented to an icon post, and then saw that mine was the ONLY ONE - on a post from the last week of JULY.
Did I mention these were all icons featuring people of color, and represented a nice range of human diversity in age, gender, and apparent ethnicity?
http://community.livejournal.com/book_icons/991479.html?view=5802999#t5802999
How can it be that a post of 115 icons - that was cross-posted to an active community by someone who has a following - has gotten zero comments in two weeks?
I don't want to think that LJ or fannish communities do not support or have room for diversity. I cannot imagine that there is no call for these icons. I understand that people will likely choose images that they feel are representative of themselves in some way, and a good portion of LJ users are Caucasian, but I have a number of icons that feature people of color, and I cannot be the only one.
I am bewildered and afraid to think about this too hard, because I don't want to negatively affect my viewpoint by assuming the worst, but I don't know what else to think. Does anyone have ideas about this?
*ponders*
I think I'm going to make a poll.
:(