Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

Inspiring! This Japanese Company Does Orientalism Even Better Than Europeans

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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@hikari this but unironically

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to ✧✦Catherine✦✧)

@whitequark what would this tweet being unironic mean?

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Saagar Jha

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@hikari @whitequark I don’t think Hikari is capable of posting irony anymore

✧✦Catherine✦✧

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@hikari two things can be true at once:
- exoticizing via stereotypes (such as orientalism) can be harmful and unpleasant
- people subject to said exoticizing can and will happily lean into it sometimes

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to ✧✦Catherine✦✧)

@whitequark the reply is appreciated!

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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this tweet brought to you by this cute pixel art of a ZOOM multi-effects pedal effect

black-and-white pixel art of a “Sitar Simulator” effect pedal, featuring an illustration of a lit oil lamp of a style strongly associated with Aladdin in the West

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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‪side note: i wanted to double-check that they were indeed combining stereotypes from different ends of The Orient just in case, and… turns out the variety of oil lamp designs is not something i could quickly find high-quality information for in english online. depressing tbh‬