The Real discuss social media influencer and model Emma Hallberg for blackfishing on Instagram

Dec 01, 2018 08:45



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The Real panel discuss the recent controversy of social media influencer & Instagram model Emma Hallberg who has been accused of “blackfishing” in order to gain followers and endorsements. Some may ask, what does that exactly mean? A quick online search summarized it like this, “The general point of blackfishing is for a female of European ( Read more... )

television - cw, tia and tamera mowry, blackfishing, internet celebrities, discussion, race / racism

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hotel December 1 2018, 17:19:22 UTC
This girl is ridiculous
I see she's Swedish like fellow tanner Alicia Vikander

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snovasam December 1 2018, 17:32:03 UTC
I never realized that about Alicia Vikander (prob cause I've forgotten all about her tbh) but yikes

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ishumy December 1 2018, 18:24:30 UTC
Doesn't Alicia actually tan naturally? I don't remember because of her general irrelevance, but I think people here say that she just tans darker than your average white.

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hotel December 1 2018, 18:49:42 UTC
idk, maybe she does (it doesn't look that natural to me). but still, the fact that her tan self is the aesthetic that she chose shows something - it is a thing, as we see in this very post

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ishumy December 1 2018, 18:58:23 UTC
See, that is something I personally have no issue with because some people do like how they look when they tan. If they're not darkening themselves to unnatural levels for them and/or actively trying to convey a mixed-race persona, I don't care. I don't know Alicia enough (beyond her and her obnoxious husband hiring a ridiculous number of bodyguards to go to Brazil) to say if anything of that applies to her.

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hotel December 1 2018, 19:02:01 UTC
yeah, maybe it's a matter of opinion, but i feel like alicia benefits from looking racially ambiguous when she tans

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ishumy December 1 2018, 20:13:55 UTC
In that, I do agree with you.

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syntheses December 1 2018, 21:13:34 UTC
I've never read her as anything but Swedish, and I feel like most articles go out their way to mention that, but a quick google has her tan af. I have some Norweigan relatives that get ridic tan, like, to almost mediterranean levels (it's crazy how naturally tan they can get for being so north. That said, the specific Swede this post is about is def. blackfishing) but it shows that it's all natural when they start to age, the ones that are darker get much more wrinkly.

But i also think there's a v conscious difference between just being that tan and wielding it in a way that's minstrelsy. I think when Ariana's skin tone is discussed, a lot of people don't understand the "she's just tan" excuse is something way different when she's appropriating their culture and profiting hardcore from it and I don't know Alicia's career well enough beyond in passing to say that some Scandinavians get suspiciously dark until like 35-40 when the UV exposure hits their skin all @ once.

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triviagogo29 December 2 2018, 23:33:57 UTC
I've never read her as anything but Swedish
that's funny cause I think she looks Brazilian (I'm Brazilian btw)

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ginainabottle December 2 2018, 21:20:22 UTC
I don't remember because of her general irrelevance

lol this got a chuckle from me, i always forget she's an oscar winner.

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gossipfaux December 2 2018, 04:13:35 UTC
This is not me making an excuse, but AV reminds me of my Hungarian friends who have skin that is olive and tans really well. It's from the genetics of their ancestors who moved into Europe from the Steppes of Asia - the Huns.

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