We’re potentially witnessing (yet another) extortion attempt in the gaming industry. DEI consultancy groups, particularly Sweet Baby Inc., have openly admitted to wanting to “terrify marketing teams” into hiring them. They say it, right out in the open. Extremely blunt and fearless for any repercussion. They’ll threaten and do anything they can to tarnish a company’s image if it refuses their services, all in a bid to secure a payday to “fix the problem” they themselves created in the first place.
Now, it’s happening again, and this recent petition against Genshin Impact SCREAMS this theory loud and clear… with about 75,000 signatures already at the time of this publication.
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They maybe want dinosaurs as npc like certain JP game.
What i don’t really understand is what does skin colour have anything to do with cultural appropriation? I tried to look around for the meaning of cultural appropriation and i get that it’s the disrespectful use or exploitation of another culture. if i understand correctly, culture is defined by the beliefs, ideals and behaviors adopted by a society. But the color of a person’s skin is a completely biological thing and doesn’t seem to be related to societal practices. Or is there something i’m misunderstanding here.
These people should just make their own games instead of trying to parasitize and infect well established franchises.
What culture appropriation? They are fictional characters with fictional culture. The only one who can decide what cultural appropriate is the developers themselves.
Since I'm Asian, I can't open up a Taco Truck and make my own Taco?
Btw, the En VAs situation is crazy. Imagine if Hyv use the Snowbreak treatment and went back to Hi3rd era😂
Wait, I thought they claim that Asians are White adjacent. How can they be whitewashed?
These extortionists can't even keep their racism straight.
I wonder that they are petitioning for mihoyo and everyone know that they have rebranded to hoyoverse, I'm pretty sure they are clueless and brain ded, welp
I still like playing Chinese made game and every other Asian made games
Also sweet baby inc doesn't made games as they said on their website, they consult and ruin them, I think they should change the wording on their official website man
i genuinely don't think it's as complicated as some "extortion conspiracy". the genshin community has openly demonstrated itself to be full of losers and freaks who will fixate on minor, trivial issues, so i think this is literally just the community doing it
3:26 yes, bc the genshin community is full of all kinds of tourists
8:26 it's exactly this. the woke left flocked to genshin bc it was accessible and appealed to their interests, but bc it doesn't cater to their every demand, it's suddenly bad and harmful
9:07 i think the only reason it really blew up this time is bc there was still hope that genshin would have dark skinned characters for natlan. but now that's it's not seeming to be the case, the pot is really starting to boil over
lmfao, MiHoYo don't care, they really don't
so they want mihoyo to create transfat characters? lol.
All I can say to these wackos that want DEI crud in games, It's their game. They can do whatever they want. Don't like it? Make your own game! You've been doing good so far, Sweet Baby Inc. The numbers show. The world doesn't revolve you.
Someone made a research about china reception for this drama. Most of it just laughed about this matter.
I like how these people claim Hoyo is white washing characters, but in order to white wash, you need to HAVE a non-white someone to begin with. None of the Natlan characters are real people, and Mavuika is based on Mahuika, who is a mythological character, so you can't white wash them because they don't exist. Not to mention, Mahuika is depicted as both male and female, depending on New Zealand region, therefore doesn't have, what you would call, a "canonical appearance" so to speak.
Furthermore, pretty confident most people who critisize MiHoYo's depiction of Natlan, are not, in fact experts on New Zealand culture or Maori mythos. Heck, we have a girl with fish pupils who rides a shark to traverse through water, land and air in a world, that exists in a larger cosmology space, ruled by Gods names after Biblical devils, yet a skin tone is what catches people's attention? come the fuck on XD. Also not to mention, Global revenue doesn't compare to CN revenue, and companies are like sunflowers always facing the sun, they face the money makers (which is even more amplified when same money makers reported them to the government because one salty guy wasted money on in-game skin, and another time someone attempted murder of the CEOs over bunny girl event).
Anyways, these western mob are a buncha rotten racists/trend hoppers/virtue signalers, using a popular mainstream media to gain exposure for themselves as well as make themselves feel better and cope by accusing others, to hide away their own flaws and discriminatory tendencies.
they have the nerve to do this on genshin and not on the new ASSassin creed
Western people trying to force the Chinese to be Western 😂 lmfao
If hoyoverse made an original character it would be fine but if they're misrepresenting and making inaccurate designs of the culture then I can see why people would become upset. However this petition feels like a massive stretch.
Are these the guys that say they're boycotting, yet they won't stop playing the game? And why are the westerners demanding things when they're not even the main demographic or the big spenders?
They actually act like their petition will go anywhere. Was there ever a petition on change.orc that has actually changed something? Please, dear Twitter npcs, just play the game and don't waste our time.
Genshin is a fantasy world that takes real world inspiration to create things. They aren't trying to recreate reality so there is no need for it to be "an accurate representation of"… Sigh… Once again, we are seeing people complain about a game that have problems separating fiction from reality.
DEI doesn't mirror chinese values so it's in the bin regardless how many mentally unwell people cry about it
All I can say is, they won't listen. Hoyo just don't want to listen. So you guys just enjoy this shit while this drama is engulfed in flames. Me personally? I just dont care that much about the Natlan drama and I know HYV antics can pisses off some people. (Being biased with the male mc that has an ugly ass design and never give them a skin is one of them or giving Raiden Shogun a mediocre design)
Hah, they really think the Chinese will give them money to ruin their games?
What these DEI teams don't understand or are completely ignorant of is that in various Asian cultures like the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, et cetera, light/white skin is a high standard of beauty.
It goes all the way back to when the wealthy spent all of their time inside doing other things like education and leisure, hence the pale skin, and the poor spent their time working outside, e.g. in the fields, resulting in tanned skin.
So much so there are many dangerous and illegal products and procedures out there designed to lighten skin.
If you see a pale character in an Asian game, there's half a chance it's because it's a stereotypical Asian beauty standard being used [like how an hourglass figure is in the West and obesity in certain African cultures], not because they're trying to "pander" to "White, Western" folks.
It's kinda ironic and racist that their hellbent agenda of "eliminating Whiteness" is actually just bigotry and outright racism to both Whites and Asians, lol.
"They create a problem only they can solve"… this says it all, genius.
I watch nyrion video the reason they can't add black characters is not that they don like it its the fanbase they have is china and Asian they don like pal skin that relate to unhealthy and not work while skin that are while as a snow are more popular heck i even learn they have a product that meant to turn skin into while as snow
What makes this petition gain traction is the support from the EN voice actors. Let's see how that will pay off
The "expert" on these cultures is always white woman, go figure.
"Stop cultural approprition" hahaha, right, says the group who literally does the very thing they are "fighting" against.
When I see fat people in TV or games, I'm disgusted and this is coming from a lazy fat man. Who doesn't like to work out, or exercise to stay healthy. So not everyone feel accepted, seeing someone looking like them selves.
Seems like these DEI activists are trying to guarantee funding because it looks like Trump is going to win.
Western racketeering tactics do not work in China.
This isn't extortion, it's useful idiots injecting their cult ideology on to others. Extortion implies malice with intent to profit. These idiots won't profit off of this, they'll just think this addition helps the game "improve" when we know full well it won't.
DEI is backed by the world mob (blacksock) do not give in to these shills. just ignore them.
Option 1: Cater to Whiners
Option 2: Continue to collect $100 million a month
Already done, Geshin Impact is in a fictional setting completely disconnected from the real world. If anyone is trying to culturally appropriate or misrepresent it is all the people signing the petition. As the characters in the world of Geshin impact have always been the way the are and are representative of themselves and their own culture.
The most hilarious thing about this is that they think a Chinese company will give a rat's ass about their petition.
they’re fat
lolol as if they'll defeat China when it comes to bullying
hoyogames is not going to care i hope xD
wokes have a army of bot accs xD