Genshin Impact is in the crosshairs of the “Skintone Police” of Twitter. A new area of the game, Natlan, features characters inspired by the Aztecs, and Twitter says they’re too white. Developer miHoYo reminds these users that Genshin Impact ISN’T REAL and these AREN’T REAL RACES.
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The developers of Genshin Impact are accused of whitewashing characters and are not taking any feedback or criticism seriously.
00:00 Genshin Impact accused of “whitewashing” by Twitter, developers told critics to get over it and their opinions don’t matter.
01:21 Genshin Impact accused of whitewashing, company doesn’t care about criticism from online communities.
02:13 Genshin Impact accused of whitewashing characters, sparking accusations of racism and cultural appropriation.
04:05 Genshin Impact accused of whitewashing characters, but some argue it’s just a tan woman.
05:26 Genshin Impact accused of whitewashing characters, but developers don’t care and are making everyone “white adjacent” to avoid controversy.
06:20 Genshin Impact developer miHoYo is not taking any feedback or complaints about whitewashing accusations.
07:34 Genshin Impact accused of whitewashing and not caring about cultural appropriation in character design.
08:51 miHoYo doesn’t care about accusations of whitewashing in Genshin Impact and believes Twitter is not a reliable platform for business decisions.
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Imagine being so racist that anything other than the darkest color of black for a characters skintone means they're white. This is how " Progressives" work and how they justified attacking Asians in 2020 because " Well they're basically white adjacent"
Majority of Genshin Players are in Asia why does Americans upset that there's not enough dark skinned representation.
Twittards kinda forget that Teyvat isn't planet Earth.
Twatteratos don't play games.
Twatter consumes all their time.
Ah yes this reeks of people that would call me Latinx and try to say that they love my people and think that they're helping me with their open border stance because "how would you get work" and "we need you for our harvests."
ow…some damn raicyst make a Cleopatra's skin a lot darker than usual 😀
funny that narrative only works one way
Nowadays everything is racist. As these nutbags will find anything racist. I bet they'd say a circle is racist if it furthers their bias and agenda.
Whitewashing means that the characters were originally black
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Sad to say I get the giggles over this, I imagine them desperately clutching paint colour charts trying to work out is that character 'Beach Beige' or closer to 'Summer Dream Creme'?
Fun part is that Mavuika, the pyro archon is based on Mahuika, the god of fire from Māori tribe from Polynesian people, indigenes people of New Zealand! It has nothing to do with Aztecs to begin with…
You kept saying that devs don't care about DEI anymore but what you don't know about this game is that these devs don't care about ANY complaints lol. They've treated their customers like crap for a long time in general and only started adding some basic quality of life features people have been asking for since the start of the game when they finally got some direct competition recently. This is also the second time this exact same controversy happened with Genshin Impact because they did the exact same thing in the region inspired by India. They didn't care then and they don't care at all now so I think it's funny that people are even trying to boycott this again lol.
I'm loving it! But, how do I deal with crew morale. I only have Sara with me😂
Spoilers it’s not even white washing.. it’s asians drawing what they know.. asians 😂😂😂 it’s only the costumes that are inspired by those areas.
I mean china doesn't have black people and they know white people from… Past events, so that is why most of them are white
Mihoyo is honestly a colorist company and twitter is actually doing the right thing this time
Man, so much for supporting you guys. I'm not even that upset about this, since nothing ever goes in favor of the Genshin audience since the 2nd year of existence. I expect them to do this type of stupid shit. But the way you go about it is just disrespectful, not even on commenting that whatever comes out of China is known to do this. They are basing this on cultures where a MAJORITY of people are of color, and the company has no excuse on "discrepancies".
But I guess Disney nuances matter more than people waiting on Natlan just to be disappointed, just as much.
Mentally ill people. And completely moronic. I have played Genshin Impact for 4 years, really enjoy the story and the soundtrack is one of the best i ve ever heard in a videogame (mix of orchestra, rythmn,EDM and a bit of rock). But one thing that's really amazing is the amount of research the devs did to weave a story around mythology, theology, folk tales, even some operas and theater( like Ring of the Nibelung's and Italy's Comédia Della Arte), from various regions and cultures around the world, in a very respectful way. Lore crafting and theory channels then compile the information in fun videos to watch. Natlan will explore the ancient south American tribes, like Mayans, Incas and all that stuff. Can't wait to see how they go with it.
Twittards being twittards, good on miyhoyo for ignoring the weirdos and doing what they want.
As a genshin player, the devs dont listen to literally anything 😂
Oh, the same folks that accused asians of blackface because some happened to live in a countryside working under the sun all day.
* they were probably rebuttal with "we're sunbathing all day and our skin ain't turn black so you are clearly wrong" *
Black people are a no no in China.
Genshin is owned by Chinese companies.
I love genshin, (and your content) I just want to say that i do not give a damn about the skin color of the characters, i play the game for the amazing story and fun combat its crazy how people reach for things like skin color like its a problem
The good old buns. For some reason, when the talk is about the buns, the 1st thing that comes to my mind is a Chinese girl in traditional clothing with her hair in buns. Maybe the internet has ruined me. 😀
People need to fix their brains to know that fiction games aren't reality
Ironically, regardless of the shade being used – they both look cute which is already going to be a problem. They hate cute and/or sexy characters but really… this kind of just goes to show that the medium doesn't matter. Some diverse team or studio could easily make cute drawings like this and launch a game like Genshin Impact but i guess it's too much work to make your own thing. Everyone has to damage their brand to include you.
The people who complains also not the one who pays either
At least this dev has some balls to tell the woke to F*CK OFF!!!!!!
one of my friends that I play Genshin alot with told me about this happening and I was like "ok? I don't understand the problem." she said "diversity is important! and Natlan is based off Africa! so where are all the black indigenous people!" I was like "well the game is fake with fake characters. sure the regions might be based off real life locations and some characters might even be influenced by real life people in religions and such, however the game isn't a complete rip off such countries and it's also….get this…a GAME! It's not real! MiHoYo is based in China which is, guess what, a very high majority of Asian people. So Western beliefs and demands don't really matter as much over there. They can make whatever character look like what they want them to look like, and you don't have to play it or give money for them if you don't want to. If you want some DEI shit then go play something like Overwatch or something. Plenty of games that give into that demand that you can play, and it's not the end of the world if this one game/company doesn't give into the Twitter mob who complains if there aren't people that "look or identify like they do" and Western companies then focus so much of that in their games and the games come out like shit." She really didn't like that and refused to talk to me for a whole day.
same issue last year no want care
why Chinese make fair skin characters because in their history the fair skin one where rich. Black people have admit that most people in Africa are poor. So countries which black people are tiny minorities are not going to be shown.
You can't whitewash an original character of your own creation from an original nation of your own creation. The creator is the one who determines what their skin colour is.
A game were everyone is LGBT+ but everyone is upset because they're too light skinned. Can not win.
Do I remember correctly, that light skin is part of a wide spread asian beauty ideal? Did they also color sample her face under different lighting conditions? First in the shadows, recognizable by the lighter nose, and then under direct lighting?
Genshin and Black Myth Wukong 🎉 didn't bow down to DEI .
Because of DEI happening Is the reason why I'm loving all White people especially Europeans ethnicity. This generation is just getting crazy! I'M A BROWN PERSON MYSELF!!!
"Teyvat has its own rules"
They should make a white version of Wakanda and call it The Pink Panther.
Imagine calling it whitewashing when they weren't black to begin with, you can't whitewash something that was never anything but white, but hey let's talk about all the blackwashing going on of historical white figures.
Dont forget kids, all the persons in history that were black:
Albert Einstein
Mother Teresa
Cleopatra
The British Queen
Ceasar
The Pope
Adolf Hi…
Fairer skin have always been an indication of beauty for women of the East for millennias… The darker, the less desirable the woman was. It's still is for most of Asia and hating fairness of skin is simply viewed as weird…
Why color matter ? is it the one who mention the color are the racist one ? I mean, if you aren't racist, color doesn't matter. We saw everyone as a people, not a color. and how about blind people ? did we didn't count them in as people because they can't see a color ?
I'm not gonna be surprised if 90% of these whiners don't actually play the game and just dabble in the alphabet fan fiction.