Twitch streamer Sydeon hits back at rampant cosplay hate claiming she\u2019s \u201cnot white enough\u201d Twitter: SydeonAfter sharing images of a recent Hinatsuru cosplay from hit anime, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Twitch sensation Sydney \u2018Sydeon\u2019 Parker has hit back at racist backlash. Twitch star and cosplayer extraordinaire, Sydeon, rose to prominence in 2021, taking the world by storm with her stunning recreations of some of pop culture\u2019s most famous faces, as well as a booming streaming career. Joining OfflineTV in 2021 (the home of behemoths such as Jeremy \u2018DisguisedToast\u2019 Wang and Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys), she continues to grow from strength to strength, churning out spectacular cosplays of characters like Genshin Impact\u2019s Mona and many more. Unfortunately, her Afro-Swedish heritage has placed a target on her back with internet trolls, and following backlash to her cosplay of Kimetsu no Yaiba\u2019s Hinatsuru, Sydeon has tackled the comments head-on. Sydeon calls out \u201crampant\u201d racism in cosplay Following the release of her Hinatsuru outfit, the cosplay star has been inundated with racist remarks targeting the fact that Hinatsuru is Asian, not African-American. Sydeon is of West African and Swedish descent. \u201cCosplaying while black,\u201d she states in a March 11 tweet, attaching images of several different comments about the look. \u201cI have feared cosplaying anime characters forever because I didn\u2019t wanna deal with this,\u201d she continues. \u201cThis sh*t is RAMPANT in the community and it\u2019s lame as f**k. My favorite is when people say \u2018you\u2019re not white enough\u2019 WHEN THE CHARACTERS ARE LITERALLY ASIAN. Just say you hate dark skin people and catch this block.\u201d I have feared cosplaying anime characters forever bc I didn\u2019t wanna deal w this. This shit is RAMPANT in the community and it\u2019s lame asf. My fave is when ppl say \u201cyou\u2019re not white enough\u201d WHEN THE CHARACTERS ARE LITERALLY ASIAN just say you hate dark skin ppl and catch this block \u2014 Syd \ud83d\udd2e (@Sydeon) March 11, 2022 Amid the waves of fans supporting her are some of OfflineTV\u2019s most famous faces. \u201cIt\u2019s a special kind of patheticness to try and hide their racism behind the veil of protecting fictional anime character\u2019s from being cosplayed by people of all races, as if the character\u2019s entire identity is based around the color of their skin,\u201d wrote DisguisedToast. it\u2019s a special kind of patheticness to try and hide their racism behind the veil of protecting fictional anime character\u2019s from being cosplayed by people of all races, as if the character\u2019s entire identity is based around the color of their skin \u2014 Toast (@DisguisedToast) March 11, 2022 This was quickly echoed by QuarterJade, arguing that it is the whole point of cosplay \u2013 to portray any character the creator chooses. I LITERALLY DONT GET IT LIKE ANYONE CAN COSPLAY THATS KINDA THE WHOLE POINT ALSO YOU LOOK SO HOT SO WHY EVEN COMPLAIN IM SO ANNOYED \u2014 QuarterJade (@QuarterJade) March 11, 2022 Sydeon is not the only woman of color to speak out about racism in the cosplay scene. Summer \u2018Summerdru\u2019 Corbin has also opened up about the hateful side of the community, and her struggles as a PoC artist. Despite the hate, though, these women are here to cosplay and slay the game as whichever character they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer Sydeon hits back at rampant cosplay hate claiming she\u2019s \u201cnot white enough\u201d Twitter: SydeonAfter sharing images of a recent Hinatsuru cosplay from hit anime, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Twitch sensation Sydney \u2018Sydeon\u2019 Parker has hit back at racist backlash. Twitch star and cosplayer extraordinaire, Sydeon, rose to prominence in 2021, taking the world by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}