let me introduce you to the somali queen of wattled

[beauty_queen]

y'all have no idea the amount of wattpad books where she is the face claim for the protagonist

rayan xassan

 

[Ozymandias]

She's cute mashallah

 

[Odious Delirium]

I'm confused Is this a joke?

 

[JackieBurkhart]

I'm confused. Is this a joke?

No, people use people's pictures online of what they visualize their characters to look like.

 

[Odious Delirium]

No, people use people's pictures online of what they visualize their characters to look like.

Ohh I get it now so @beauty_queen envisions this girl as the protagonist in the books she read or many authors actually put her as the actual protag.
I still don't get that does she actually get name dropped as the protagonist as in there are a bunch of fanfics about her or?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but isn't whatpad book corn/romance

 

[beauty_queen]

I'm confused Is this a joke?

no there is a huge chance that if the character in your wattpad book is a black female that she gets used for the face

 

[beauty_queen]

Ohh I get it now so @beauty_queen envisions this girl as the protagonist in the books she read or many authors actually put her as the actual protag.
I still don't get that does she actually get name dropped as the protagonist as in there are a bunch of fanfics about her or?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but isn't whatpad book /romance

people don't name drop her or write fanfics about her they just use her for what the protagonist looks like
and yeah wattpad is primality a romance website though that isn't all the books on the site

 

[JackieBurkhart]

Ohh I get it now so @beauty_queen envisions this girl as the protagonist in the books she read or many authors actually put her as the actual protag.
I still don't get that does she actually get name dropped as the protagonist as in there are a bunch of fanfics about her or?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but isn't whatpad book /romance

*Yes, that's what they do. People don't usually write fan-fiction about Instagram influencers though. Wattpad is just a platform that allows you to write stuff, it has different genres as well.

 

[Odious Delirium]

no there is a huge chance that if the character in your wattpad book is a black female that she gets used for the face

Ohhhh so it's kind of like the defaults generic black woman choice. I'm surprised they choose a somali to be the default tho I thought mathow women didn't like somali women so who is authoring all these books? Cadaan women?

 

[JackieBurkhart]

Ohhhh, so it's kind of like the default generic black woman choice. I'm surprised they chose a Somali to be the default though. I thought madow women didn't like Somali women so who is authoring all these books? Cadaan women?

I would guess since they use that place the most.

 

[beauty_queen]

Ohhhh so it's kind of like the defaults generic black woman choice. I'm surprised they choose a somali to be the default tho I thought mathow women didn't like somali women so who is authoring all these books? Cadaan women?

in the real world nobody cares about this somali vs madow beef its only a small part of the internet, plus somalis don't even live in the same places as African Americans so most don't know about us

 

[beauty_queen]

I would guess since they use that place the most.

nope black women, white and black wattpad don't ever interact other than on some books

 

[Odious Delirium]

in the real world nobody cares about this somali vs madow beef its only a small part of the internet, plus somalis don't even live in the same places as African Americans so most don't know about us

yeah i understand that which is why i find it weird. i would expect that the average induvial would like to project themselves or someone who looks like them into there stories so why would a somali woman be the face of mathow women across the world is my point.

maybe this is a difference between men and women i guess in the same scenario most men would do self inserts or at least keep the ethnicity of there protag the same as there own which would probably create a greater diversity when it comes to matching a face to the protag instead of having a default per race.

 

[Odious Delirium]

in the real world nobody cares about this somali vs madow beef its only a small part of the internet, plus somalis don't even live in the same places as African Americans so most don't know about us

by not liking im referring to not wanting to be repped by minorities who don't look like them.

its still weird they would use actual people instead of making entirety new one via art.

lazy and creepy

 

[Nin123]

y'all have no idea the amount of wattpad books where she is the face claim for the protagonist View attachment 277547rayan xassan

Cute but too skinny for my likes.

 

[beauty_queen]

by not liking im referring to not wanting to be repped by minorities who don't look like them.

its still weird they would use actual people instead of making entirety new one via art.

lazy and creepy

I don't read books which have art people as the protagonist idk why its a pet pev

 

[notinuse.]

nope black women, white and black wattpad don't ever interact other than on some books

A lot of white girls online use rayan as the "soft and innocent aesthetic" or "old money" aesthetic when they're showing pretty looking women. Her face is probaly more famous than real somali models.

 

[beauty_queen]

yeah i understand that which is why i find it weird. i would expect that the average induvial would like to project themselves or someone who looks like them into there stories so why would a somali woman be the face of mathow women across the world is my point.

maybe this is a difference between men and women i guess in the same scenario most men would do self inserts or at least keep the ethnicity of there protag the same as there own which would probably create a greater diversity when it comes to matching a face to the protag instead of having a default per race.

most meadows are on the everybody black is my brother train especially in America where that was emphasised during the civil rights movement so I bet they don't see a difference between a halimo and a anna

 

[beauty_queen]

A lot of white girls online use rayan as the "soft and innocent aesthetic" or "old money" aesthetic when they're showing pretty looking women. Her face is probaly more famous than real somali models.

really?? I don't frequent those circles they disgusts me

 

[Odious Delirium]

I don't read books which have art people as the protagonist idk why its a pet pev

Well now there is ai art you can replicate and make photo realistic art available to the average person that can't draw and no one would even know its fake