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For many giantess fans, your first introduction into the subculture that is macrophilia is through photo-manipulation. With programs like Photoshop, any picture can be altered to look like anything else. So if you’ve been around DA for a while, or just the internet in general, you’ve probably seen when someone takes a picture of a well known celebrity and cuts them out of that picture to put somewhere else. This is the primace for an entire subgenre of macrophilia, which I will now discuss.

For this profile, there are actually two different categories: fictional and nonfictional. I’ll discuss fictional later, but for now let’s talk about nonfictional. There are a lot of famous women out there, of course. Many of them are quite beautiful, I will admit that. At least in good hollywood lighting and after an hour of make-up. People like to take pictures of famous, hot women. In fact, there are people whose entire jobs involve sneaking a picture of a famous person before escaping the angered security guards. But we have a lot of pictures of famous people on the internet and they don’t really care about copyrights in photos.

So this frees up macrophiles with a lot of free time to sift through the millions of pictures of hot hollywood actresses, find one of them in a pose that might resemble the action of a giantess, and then cut her out of the picture via Photoshop before sticking her in the middle of a urban setting, only this time much bigger. For example, someone might find a picture of Emma Watson in a bikini wading through the low-level tides at the beach. You could easily cut her out and paste her on a picture of a cityscape so that it looks like she’s 7 miles tall, killing thousands of people with each step she takes. Meanwhile, Emma is in her penthouse in San Francisco taking a bath in a tub full of hundred dollar bills and she has no idea that people are doing this to her likeness. But what does she care, really?

That’s the thing though: it’s super easy. It’s actually probably easier to do one of these kinds of pics then it is to draw a picture of a giantess instead. Trust me on this one: I drew the image for this deviant and it took me hours to finish. But if you wanted to take a picture of Kate Upton in a swimsuit lying on top of an aircraft carrier, that’s practically a 10 minute project. First...you need a picture of Kate Upton in a swimsuit lying down. Then you need a picture of an aircraft carrier. Cut, paste, and then you’re done. It’s that simple.

So that’s the nonfictional celebrity giantess. Basically, just real-life celebrities. Now, the fictional Celebrity giantess is a bit different. When I say “celebrity” I basically just mean any well known woman from a show, video game, manga, or anime. Characters like Hastune Miku (Vocaloids), Hestia (Is it Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?) and Haruhi (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) are ones that I see particularly often on DA.

The giantess in the Deviant Image is actually Ahri, the nine-tailed Fox Girl from Riot Games’ “League of Legends.” Now, the character herself has no correlation with being a giantess. She’s a fox eared, soul-consuming seductress with a fondness for using magic on the battlefield. She’s normally 5-6 feet tall and as far as I know doesn’t harbor any secret desires to be big enough to crush a whole LoL battlefield under her foot. So why would this character be depicted as a giantess, which she often times is, at least outside of the game? Well, it’s because she’s hot. And she’s a well known game character. That’s….that’s really it actually. I love Ahri, and I love giantesses, and as long as I’m not making money off of this (which I’m not) then there’s no legal reason why I can’t do this picture. So I went ahead and did it.

That’s really the big reason why people like to do pictures where a beloved character is turned into a giantess. Mostly because we love that person and we’d love to see them as a giantess. And you don’t really have to manipulate a photo of them, you can just draw them. For some reason I never see people draw pictures of famous celebrities as giantesses. Always in photo manipulation.

I left out a category, sorry. There is a third category to this: the Cosplayer. Sometimes a Giantess OC will dress up like a well-known character rampaging around the city. That’s a good example of the best of both worlds: you can have the character you made pretending to be the character you like. And characters like Hestia and Ahri have some really neat costumes.

So in the end, whenever someone does a picture of a celebrity as a giantess, they are really showing that they love that person so much they want to see them act out their fantasies. If not, then they probably had the piece commissioned by someone who did. This principle is one of the things that really makes Macrophiles as a whole very similar to people who like MLP or Pokemon. In fact, many of us like those things too...just...you know...where every character is a giantess.

But in the end, we can still be classified as fans, even if we have an odd way of showing it.

Description

For many giantess fans, your first introduction into the subculture that is macrophilia is through photo-manipulation. With programs like Photoshop, any picture can be altered to look like anything else. So if you’ve been around DA for a while, or just the internet in general, you’ve probably seen when someone takes a picture of a well known celebrity and cuts them out of that picture to put somewhere else. This is the primace for an entire subgenre of macrophilia, which I will now discuss.

For this profile, there are actually two different categories: fictional and nonfictional. I’ll discuss fictional later, but for now let’s talk about nonfictional. There are a lot of famous women out there, of course. Many of them are quite beautiful, I will admit that. At least in good hollywood lighting and after an hour of make-up. People like to take pictures of famous, hot women. In fact, there are people whose entire jobs involve sneaking a picture of a famous person before escaping the angered security guards. But we have a lot of pictures of famous people on the internet and they don’t really care about copyrights in photos.

So this frees up macrophiles with a lot of free time to sift through the millions of pictures of hot hollywood actresses, find one of them in a pose that might resemble the action of a giantess, and then cut her out of the picture via Photoshop before sticking her in the middle of a urban setting, only this time much bigger. For example, someone might find a picture of Emma Watson in a bikini wading through the low-level tides at the beach. You could easily cut her out and paste her on a picture of a cityscape so that it looks like she’s 7 miles tall, killing thousands of people with each step she takes. Meanwhile, Emma is in her penthouse in San Francisco taking a bath in a tub full of hundred dollar bills and she has no idea that people are doing this to her likeness. But what does she care, really?

That’s the thing though: it’s super easy. It’s actually probably easier to do one of these kinds of pics then it is to draw a picture of a giantess instead. Trust me on this one: I drew the image for this deviant and it took me hours to finish. But if you wanted to take a picture of Kate Upton in a swimsuit lying on top of an aircraft carrier, that’s practically a 10 minute project. First...you need a picture of Kate Upton in a swimsuit lying down. Then you need a picture of an aircraft carrier. Cut, paste, and then you’re done. It’s that simple.

So that’s the nonfictional celebrity giantess. Basically, just real-life celebrities. Now, the fictional Celebrity giantess is a bit different. When I say “celebrity” I basically just mean any well known woman from a show, video game, manga, or anime. Characters like Hastune Miku (Vocaloids), Hestia (Is it Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?) and Haruhi (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) are ones that I see particularly often on DA.

The giantess in the Deviant Image is actually Ahri, the nine-tailed Fox Girl from Riot Games’ “League of Legends.” Now, the character herself has no correlation with being a giantess. She’s a fox eared, soul-consuming seductress with a fondness for using magic on the battlefield. She’s normally 5-6 feet tall and as far as I know doesn’t harbor any secret desires to be big enough to crush a whole LoL battlefield under her foot. So why would this character be depicted as a giantess, which she often times is, at least outside of the game? Well, it’s because she’s hot. And she’s a well known game character. That’s….that’s really it actually. I love Ahri, and I love giantesses, and as long as I’m not making money off of this (which I’m not) then there’s no legal reason why I can’t do this picture. So I went ahead and did it.

That’s really the big reason why people like to do pictures where a beloved character is turned into a giantess. Mostly because we love that person and we’d love to see them as a giantess. And you don’t really have to manipulate a photo of them, you can just draw them. For some reason I never see people draw pictures of famous celebrities as giantesses. Always in photo manipulation.

I left out a category, sorry. There is a third category to this: the Cosplayer. Sometimes a Giantess OC will dress up like a well-known character rampaging around the city. That’s a good example of the best of both worlds: you can have the character you made pretending to be the character you like. And characters like Hestia and Ahri have some really neat costumes.

So in the end, whenever someone does a picture of a celebrity as a giantess, they are really showing that they love that person so much they want to see them act out their fantasies. If not, then they probably had the piece commissioned by someone who did. This principle is one of the things that really makes Macrophiles as a whole very similar to people who like MLP or Pokemon. In fact, many of us like those things too...just...you know...where every character is a giantess.

But in the end, we can still be classified as fans, even if we have an odd way of showing it.