Twitter Finds Cute Pokemon Fire Emblem Cross Over Art, Problematic

Previously we reported on a situation where a talented and well known artist; MiLk, was harassed on Twitter by weird, bigoted, people who demanded she apologize and delete her art.

Well, now we have another story of another talented artist ( @kiravera8 ) posting content they worked hard on, onto Twitter – only to result in backlash.

I didn’t expect mixed reactions from this post😅

— ✨Kira Kira✨ (@kiravera8) January 29, 2020

For those unfamiliar, the art features Fire Emblem characters crossed over as Pokemon Characters. In this case, the Galar starter’s final evolutions; (left to right) Inteleon, Cinderace, Rillaboom.

I didn’t mean to hurt anyone- I was just drawing for fun

— ✨Kira Kira✨ (@kiravera8) January 29, 2020

there’s also another reason I drew this cause I drew this pic with the starters months ago & wanted to redraw it in their evolved forms- I’m sorry pic.twitter.com/DYQVyBcZh0

— ✨Kira Kira✨ (@kiravera8) January 29, 2020

There is the apology. Luckily, this artist, Kira, didn’t delete her art. Although, apologizing was likely a mistake. So why is there outrage? Because Claude is Rillaboom and virtue signaling weirdos on Twitter are claiming that’s racist.

Once again another artist being harassed by the woke alphabet squad from tumblr.
This time for drawing a fire emblem character as a pokemon, this artist has done basically all Fire emblem Three houses characters as pokemon but this time it is racist because……. pic.twitter.com/iQBcrMUKO3

— "…It's all fine now." (@RespectElves) January 31, 2020

“Once again another artist being harassed by the woke alphabet squad from tumblr. This time for drawing a fire emblem character as a pokemon, this artist has done basically all Fire emblem Three houses characters as pokemon but this time it is racist because…….apparently their was only racial ideas coming into play here when drawing all 3 head of houses as Starters. Its not the size or the way they look in comparison, its not that Cinderace is the more feminine starter or Inteleon is the more edgy one no its because Claude is a……I am not gonna say it lol”

There’s the explanation, here’s some of the anger, it seems many posts have been deleted after being called out for their unreasonable faux outrage;

So we’re drawing POCs as monkeys cool cool cool nothing to see here https://t.co/rPv78Imx35

— SirenSymph⭕️ny (@symphony_siren) January 31, 2020

Bad things can certainly still come about even with no bad intentions. Even if the artist didn’t know the implications of assigning a gorilla Pokemon to them there’s still a lot of historical context where art was used to demean black people & by extension PoC.

— SirenSymph⭕️ny (@symphony_siren) February 1, 2020

girl …. https://t.co/bXZWhoiylk

— Bec🥞🐝 (@TomeOfThoron) January 29, 2020

“claude is the monkey” pic.twitter.com/lh0UhFI7aH

— sampabeencold (@sampalemanpa) January 29, 2020

hm claude the monkey huh 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 https://t.co/mAtrqd2D6v

— ramen (@venomramen) January 29, 2020

And some in support;

There are some ppl who’re looking way into this racial thing. As a person of color I honestly see nothing wrong with Rillaboom being Claude. More so I actually like it. Can ya just relax and enjoy the art plz? @AjentVee @GlitchxCity look at this awesome art https://t.co/v5IYPayg4a

— Qing Donnie Yoshi (@YoungPrinceDon) January 30, 2020

This is really good art, yet people popped up in the comments and started calling the artist racist because Claude is the monkey Pokemon

There's actual racist nonsense happening elsewhere leave this poor soul be. https://t.co/I1acNGNGoN

— Delta Connors (@Duke0fTime) January 30, 2020

Y’all are some babies to get sensitive over this. Grow up, enjoy the drawing, or back off https://t.co/Ht6GTGl6DS

— Hikari 💮 Skywalker (@Lunaris_Hikari) January 30, 2020

If you think this art is racist then that say more about you then the artist. https://t.co/8GEf8BD23v

— Banette (@ssbu_Banette) January 29, 2020

I love this so much 😂💖 https://t.co/ZTQGWGqMzb

— Jenn @ NieR concert 02/02 (@Papillon_Reine) January 29, 2020

Yes… I love this! Especially the Cinderace! https://t.co/Lr5xx6zObD

— Fox McCloud (@HeroOfCorneria) January 29, 2020

You can follow the artist at @kiravera8 on Twitter and of course clicking the Tweets works too!