https://kotaku.com/twitch-punishes-white-apex-legends-cosplayer-who-painte-1834055934
Edit: Whoops, I think I meant to post this on the Gaming forum.
Edit 2: I've seen a lot of comments that she's just trying to make her cosplay more "accurate" or something.
I dunno about that, let's do a comparison (she's on the left)
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On Saturday, Karina "Karupups" Martsinkevich was streaming herself preparing her Lifeline cosplay in Twitch's "Just Chatting" section to roughly 160 viewers. Martsinkevich, who had dyed her hair and put on a white shirt and surgical mask, then applied a dark foundation to her face to mimic Lifeline's appearance. "On my stream, I wanted to show the viewers, how hard is to prepare for a cosplay, how much time the make up, costume and another details can take," Martsinkevich said in an email to Kotaku.
The final result of Martsinkevich's cosplay is what's commonly recognized as blackface—when a non-black person attempts to caricature or present as a black person. It originated in the 1800s when white actors used shoe polish or burnt cork, sometimes on top of highlighting their lips or other features, to perform exaggerated and racist stereotypes of black people. Martsinkevich's stream was taken down before she could finish her cosplay preparation in what constitutes a direct denouncement of blackface on Twitch.
After announcing her apparently 30-day suspension, Martsinkevich posted a YouTube video in which she explained that she was banned for "engaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people." She went on to contend that she "just wanted to be similar to Lifeline from Apex...it wasn't meant to have [sic] a joke of anyone. It was just a cosplay, guys, for my favorite legend from a computer game." The Twitch streamer says that she didn't mean for her cosplay "to be painful for anyone" and apologized to those who were hurt.
Edit: Whoops, I think I meant to post this on the Gaming forum.
Edit 2: I've seen a lot of comments that she's just trying to make her cosplay more "accurate" or something.
I dunno about that, let's do a comparison (she's on the left)
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After her ban, Martsinkevich again posted the picture of herself in the cosplay on the Russian social media app VK. She added the caption, "Thank you for the enormous support. Thank you for not leaving me alone in such a situation. So, guys and girls, what do you think about Cosplay?"
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