{"id":"race-swapping","name":"Race Swapping","summary":"Race Swapping is a 2010s discourse meme sparked by *The Last Airbender* and *Dragon Ball Evolution* controversies, evolving into an exploitable format of absurd parody posters swapping characters' races.","tags":[],"howToUse":["**Parody movie poster:** Pick a well-known character or historical figure strongly associated with one race and create a fake promotional poster \"announcing\" a casting swap. Ryan Gosling is the go-to choice for reverse (white-for-Black) swaps[5].","**Side-by-side comparison:** Place the original character design next to the adaptation's version, usually with minimal or no caption, letting the visual contrast speak for itself[1].","**Fake studio announcement:** Mock a Netflix, Disney, or Amazon press release about a race-swapped adaptation, playing on these studios' reputations for diverse recasting[3].","**Historical figure edit:** Photoshop a different-race actor into a historical role, like a white actor as Frederick Douglass or a Black actress as Queen Victoria, pushing the concept to its most absurd conclusion[6]."],"imageCount":3,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/race-swapping/race-swapping-dragonball-heimdall.webp","caption":"Split comparison of two famous race-swap casting decisions.","width":800,"height":450,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/race-swapping/race-swapping-cant-change-race.webp","caption":"Meme comparing character race-change debates with degraded image quality.","width":421,"height":446,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/race-swapping/race-swapping-ryan-gosling-poster.webp","caption":"Parody movie poster exemplifying race-swap meme format.","width":680,"height":944,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/race-swapping/history.md","related":["i-support-the-current-thing","dr-ally-louks-olfactory-ethics-the-politics-of-smell-in-modern-and-contemporary-prose-phd-study","internet-bloodsports","regressive-left","social-justice-warrior","triggered-feminist--2","which-way-western-man","your-body-my-choice","thetriggering","bud-light-dylan-mulvaney","dei-purple","do-you-condemn-hamas"],"popularityRank":664,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}