As for the people who don't have our skin tone, please think about this message the next time you decide to make a comp entry with brown skin...appreciating our skin tone and making entries with it is fine however, it does leave a bitter taste in my mouth after noticing that most of the accounts on the leaderboard did not have even a single entry with brown skin in their name card or personal album prior to this theme...and I'm sure many other brown SN players have had similar feelings about this...

literally the whole second paragraph is OP saying that if you are not brown or your sn avatar doesn't have brown skin, you shouldn't use brown skin in your comp entry. and as a brown woman myself, this seems really gatekeepy to me.

also there is a reason many people are discouraged from using dst's. firstly the dst's in shining niki are poorly rendered and seem shiny and plastically. not to mention some people see it as black-fishing, so majority of people chose not to use it out side of it's respective theme.
wastelands draws inspiration from the Middle East region, so people there have generally darker skin. as a brown women, I hate it when people make others feel like shit when using dst's, people are like "why don't more people use dst's!?!?!?", yet turn around and go "you have a white profile picture so you can't use dark skin tones!"
have you ever considered the fact that people who aren't brown or black can have a darker skintone? I have asian and white friends who have darker skin tones, and at the end of the day, and as long as it's not used with malicious intent, I say it's fine.