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Forgot to mention another issue people harped on was habibi el slut Ekko being whitewashed. Tbh it's not the worst case I've seen, but I agree the artist could've def stood to go a shade or two darker.
Also, another layer to the Orientalist bent of the artwork is that the artist said it's inspired by a fanfic. The link and some excerpts got posted in the replies and qrts. It's poorly written racist orientalist hetslop that feels ai generated.
Not that it matters for why people took issue with the artwork, but on second thought I'm 90% sure the fanfic was ai generated. It's got those overused descriptive works; repetition of certain phrases ("A promise. A threat. A challenge" "To seize, to conquer, to tear"); contrasts specific details a lot ("not x, but y" "not fear, but purpose" "not measured, but as if..." "No pattern. No symmetry. Just the..."); and there's ellipses all over the place that you could swap with em-dashes and it'd read smoother, but it'd also be a tell that it was ai generated, so the artist swapped them with ellipses to throw us off their scent.