Mohammed Agbadi talking about the sumeru characters from genshin impact and how some geniuses thought it would be a good idea to fix them by making them black .
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I hate the concept of "fixing", especially in fandom. Western fandom isn't the target audience for Genshin, who's company is based in the East. HoYoverse is is going to pander to their own demographic so "fixing" their characters really isn't going to change anything. I personally love the Genshin designs for what they are, so there's no point in me (as a black person) changing them.
The reason they don't usually make characters with "darker skin" is because it's harder to make it match the lighting and and make it "fit" in the lighting that's why it is hardly used in anime, cartoons and games
as a arab this shit so funny like imagine raging cuz a middle eastern isnt brown💀
Well Sumeru is inspired from both india and Egypt, do these fixers realize that people in egypt are mostly WHITE!? Making characters black only shows that a person is racist to white people… These are the people who turn every positive movement to a very toxic one
As a middle eastern person, honestly I don't see why people are so worked up over this? I mean, yeah, it would be nicer to have more darker skinned characters, but why go out of your way to "fix" an already existing one? It just doesn't make sense to me.
it's funny how some people get mad or complain about fictional characters and the people who made them and the littlest of details and calling themselves artist just to fix something they don't like
As part of the community I've seen so many great redesigns of the upcoming characters that use references and actually pull from the culture characters are supposedly based on (speculated based on clothing, names, parallels) so it really sucks that you only showed the basic color swaps. No, Dori's issue isn't that she's pale, it's that her entire character and design are orientalist.
The reason people are so disappointed is that the company developing Genshin Impact has done such a phenomenal job representing the past regions (based on German, Chinese and Japanese cultures respectively), and they put so much research into creating the lore of the world that it's actually insane. The main antagonists of the game are based on the Commedia dell'arte, a very specific form of Italian theater. Genshin's biggest influence is gnosticism, and even the new character's names are (according to people actually knowledgeable on the subject) quite obscure and they were wondering where they even found them.
It fucking sucks to know they have the capacity, the ability, and the drive to do in-depth research and yet when it comes to properly representing your culture (specifically in the costume department), which has been misrepresented for centuries, they fall short.
So true! You earned my sub!
I don’t associate with the fandom I play the game have fun and don’t care if people hate me for liking the Sumeru characters and that’s honestly what people should be doing instead of trying to appeal to others
Personally I just change skin color for fun not to fix it
I don't know why those people are making a fuss about the costumes literally no character apartment from the NPCs use clothes with designs in real life
Ew if y'all think ppl doing blasian edits say they are fixing it when it's just a fun little activity to share with others who want rep aswell y'all are delusional
I swear it's always twitter💀
But they mostly not live in the desert they live in the jungle
Smh… if someone took Kaeya for example, and made his skin lighter and said “fixed it” everyone would go nuts and I mean rightly so, but at the same time loads of people take pale characters and edit them to have dark skin and that’s ‘fixing’….
Omg!! Sumeru is not black…egypt also not black…
I'm gonna say this, middle east people most of them are mixed, and there's a few, very few who are black, most of middle east people are white too, like Iraqis, Egyptians, Emirates, and even Saudi people, the fact that people think that most of us are black is wrong, because most of us are actually pale, white, brown or mixed, this is really missed up 😐
It’s funny because kaeya someone that has tan skin, the fandom colors darker calling him black, and he is from a place that takes inspiration from German/ Norse stories/myths. So he should be as pale as can be by their logic but gets the opposite treatment.
Ya It would be nice to have more characters with different skin colors but honestly I think we are lucky to have what we have. Colorism from what I’ve heard is big over there so it’s not surprising just sad and I’m not someone that makes demands of a company from a different country surrounding this topic. I’ll fill out the survey about it sure but that’s something only they can fix internally.
You gotta understand genshin fans have been telling us fir years to wait but it's been 2 years! and with the leaks of kandake you can tell mihoyo dose not care about black people (white washing of a historical person) . And I would also like to add black edits do not make people racist towards black people. Genshin fandom is pretty anti black to begin with. Like I said two fucking years the genshin fandom has told us to wait for dark skin rep but we never got it. I chose to unfollow you after you mentioned hero hei and shouted him out, as his ideals don't line up with mine. but one follower gone won't affect you in the long run. It's a bummer you were a artist I looked up to but I guess are ideals aren't the same -sorry for bad English
Tbh i feel like most of it isn't about racism i feel likes its about colorism , and the fact that it doesn't feel real , Im not asking for less light skinned charters i'm asking for charters that represent how the region actually is not some white washed watered down version of it bc we are uncomfortable , all skin is beautiful we should show it all how it is .❤
i mean….. this genshin "dark skinned" arts are a lot better than those where they burn my eyes
Hi bro, keep up the great work, don't give in those twitter woke weirdos