b-bumb:

np. i think thisisnotkorea explain well for a lot of things but this is what i see a lot among the white washing tweets:

• as i said before, saying it’s ‘racist’ to bleach a picture has created a lot of confusion, as well as with the term ‘white washing’ (“how can we be racist against ourselvesㅋㅋㅋㅋand we’re not trying to be whiteㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ did you know not just white people have pale skin”), though some realize it’s about just skin color
  
• + of course there’s a lot of anger because people edited pictures of fansites who clearly stated no editing, telling ifans to come and take their own pics & edit them
• ifans recolor idols into darker complexion than actual tone, says to embrace dark tones [to kfans] -> felt to kfans that, umm whats the word, like they are imposing a certain beauty standard to korea? (“ifans are saying ‘don’t try to be white!! embrace ur own skin tone ^^’ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ")
• ESPECIALLY abt edits that darken AND make them yellow. this caused serious offense to koreans and is repeatedly brought up (“racist? you’re the racists if you think koreans are all dark and yellow”)
• honestly a lot of us really dont know what their skin tone really looks like; (“you don’t even know what their skin tone is and you’re telling us this..”) and even if we saw them in concert, this doesn’t compare to fansite masters who see them like almost every day

i got permission to translate someone’s tweet on the condition that i don’t publish their username: “recently international fans have been editing fantaken photos, saying not to edit them like white people and editing them to ‘preserve their beautiful’ asian yellowish skin color. it’s ambiguous how much is from inherent korean beauty standards or how much is from colorism (t/n: literally ‘skin tone discrimination,’ not sure if 피부색 차별 is an accurate translation for colorism in korean or if there even is a word for colorism, but the word seemed to fit here), but take your own pictures”