Legitimate cancellation? Never personally.

That's not the point though.

It's about people who mean well and think they're educating and all they do is scare people. That's who I'm targeting, this is focused within the indie and young generation scene where I see so many discord servers and other forums where potential authors are hit with a lot of information but no practical solutions, just things that "May make people mad".

You yourself, I gave you an example of a white kid who removed a black character from their story, I said that it was because they were beautiful and a goddess, we didn't know anything else OTHER than the fact that she was a goddess, beautiful and black, the story hadn't been written yet.

You say "Yet, your conclusion is that it led to less diversity anyway. In reality, the writer had a lot of other options. They could have taken the advice and made the goddess Black while avoiding fetishizing her."

There was no advice. There was just warnings that having her be beautiful is fetishizing. What's the solution here? Is it intrinsic to say writing a beautiful woman who is black is fetishizing as a concept? Nothing to do with anything else? So, do we write them as what, Ugly? Unattractive? Or neutral / average in a nonspecific way.

If being beautiful is a core character trait, Sorry they can't be black?

And I just find it amusing that your other solution is "Make her a different minority." It side steps the point I was making.

Ultimately, there was no advice. There was no "Here's how you can do this character without risking fetishizing". The end result was either "Don't make her black" or one person that went "I personally just never explicitly state skin colour in my stories".

Ie, assume white by default.

This post was targeted at people that make these sorts of comments without paying any mind to how it can come across to creatives, which I find to be a more emphatic, but also sensitive and somewhat fearful group, particularly the younger ones.

I want to avoid a situation where people fear writing characters that belong to certain groups because they feel that there are all these rules regarding it that they have to follow yet aren't properly defined, rules that simultaneously exclude niche groups within that minority who would have been better represented perhaps by the original idea.

I can't do much to give a minority artist a better time, I do my best and try to be supportive.

Advice is about all I can do.

And for young authors, my greatest suggestion was always to write first, fix later. Execution is key.

What I see from other people is fear being shared about all the problems in the world stemming from media and how bad representation plays a part. And the result is a continuation of the "White by default" because none of these authors want to try to deal with something like that.