@@snakedoctor313 Yea, I just saw the tweet a few minutes ago. He said that other black Developers told him to stop talking about it, and he will now go silent.
Make no mistakes, this guy only got pissed because HIS characters got messed with. He wouldn't give a damn about anyone else's. And as expected his peers already forced him to shut up.
He did a GDC talk this year on advocating Black Hair styles. He talks about Code My Crown, which is an initiative with Dove showcasing various African American hairstyles that are NOT the "Killmonger". You guys are constantly barking up the wrong tree. Do your research before blindly hating on the Internet. Or just be kind, REMEMBER that. You can still make a point.
@@headshotmaster138 Noticed how they never really make any of the male characters ugly? At times, it almost feels as though they are trying to cater to a particular community with an ever expanding alphabets
From the makers of "this is happening but it doesn't affect me so it's not a bad thing" comes "this is happening and it's bad but I don't want to agree with the other side". Prime example of ideology possessing man, rather than a man possessing an ideology.
You’ll always have everyone’s respect for having the courage to call out the hidden “ugly female” agenda, man! Funny how in video games, women are forced to be less attractive, but men are supposed to have chiseled jawlines, six pack, lean body fat, etc….😂
9:00 BOOM. There it is, this here is the ticket. This is where you got your 59th like. The Corpos don't give a flying shit about black America, just black American dollars.
After what they've done to Maria from Silent Hill 2 I'm done caring about these folks, they are the enemy of gaming, period. I'm not even that into aesthetics, but they belong WHERE they belong in games, for the stories they are MEANT to be in, and that's being destroyed.
Yep. Black people had been the canary in the coal mine for decades in entertainment and media. Look at how Hollywood emasculated Black men. The cross dressing and whatnot. It's ridiculous. I started making my own products because I want to provide a variety of Characters and have fun doing it. Not to mention that the stuff I truly wanted is not being made anymore or I rather go my own direction with it. I made a female that is a Caribbean and I loved drawing her. And I'm making more and more characters. Plus it's fun to do and I don't worry about the outside trying to get into my ear about designing my own creations.
Grocery story aunties is a hilarious description. On the other hand, butt arse ugly is the most appropriate. Bottom of my foot also works. And I love that when it happens to Del Walker's women, he raised his voice, but has been silent when other women got the bottom of my foot treatment. You put a clip of VF on, and my gosh, I had forgotte how hot Vanessa is. I am looking forward to your project, and hoping it succeeds. I want your stuff to actually be good so I can throw money at it. 12:28
I like how this is becoming more and more attentive. There are a tremendous amount of beautiful women all over the place, of all nationalities and ethnicities. We don't need ONLY the worst of the worst in the games.
It's safe to say that we should follow Frank Frazetta's adage. Because his quote perfectly represents this current situation: Everybody knocks my female figures. They say they're overblown, that women don't look like that. And I agree. certainly all women don't look like my paintings. But you can't deny some women do look like that. I don't want to paint just another woman. A painting, it's something important; you want to look at it, maybe forever. Who wants to look at just an ordinary hero forever? You want the ultimate, you pull out the stops and do everything in extremes. The extreme in beauty, if it fits; the extreme in ugliness if it fits; the extreme in terror if this is what's required. You know, I think this is one reason that so many people enjoy my stuff, because all of these extremes are jammed into it. So I say to you, my fellow artists: let's push the medium again into the cool, fantastical, inspirational and more importantly; aspirational facets of entertainment. To hell with misguided idealogues and the corpos manipulating the narrative.
I love how even Japanese games are doing a better job than the west at giving us beautiful black women in games. Kimberly from SF6, Dolores from KoF, Nessa from Pokemon, Twintelle from Arms etc.
Whaman king was directed n written by a bunch of white R baters and that was meant as a propaganda flik to gaslight n dupe white straight Brits into buying into n accepting the disgraceful notion that our history was comprised of evil colonialists irrespective of the historical facts themselves.
it is a conspiracy theory until there's evidence, we need people like Del inside the industry to come out and expose the truth, wether it's what we think or not. I am very glad for creatives making their own art instead of complaining. So true with that lack of proper representation, that's why I just want to make my own game.
For them to expose dei, some of them have to change their hearts and this is a very hard process since they think what they are doing is the right thing.
Everyone needs to wake tf up. It all started with Mass Effect Andromeda,where I noticed it was extremely difficult to make a good looking female character. Now here we are,a sea of games filled with Crimson chin women 😒
100% correct man, chasing your dreams, fullfilling it and making it all come true, it's totally worth it, all of it, no matter the amount that has been put in, the end result is what matters ultimately. just do it and stop being the victim of our own pasts as its a limiting factor
There's a French manga called The Last Kamit in development. It basically takes common anime tropes and puts them in an African setting. I really gotta check it out, it's really interesting. And it is made by black people.
That is what I don't get about the woke. if you want a black cast just set the story in a place with lots of black people naturally living there or adapt those fairy tales and mythology.
You're 100% correct man. They might not wanna see us be great, but it never wlreally was their job to. Thats on us and with how accessible the apparatus to create such content is today, a good idea is just a half done job.
It's good to see people who at first said it's a conspiracy theory, is finally seeing the blood in the water lol, and also yeah I also never cared if I saw myself in media, I just care if the characters are good and likeable, race doesn't matter
I admire your willingness to stand up and accept leadership of your community. That is the very core of masculinity, something very much lacking in this day and age. You are aware of the scorn that will bring on you and soldier on anyways. You probably aren't nearly as aware as you should be of how remarkable you are.
This reminds me of a video made by Dynamode approaching the exact same topic titled "How Western vs Japanese Games Portray Black Women". It was not the *best* in my opinion, but it was a fine video. I truly wished it got more eyes than it did.
8:04 - 10:40 You spoke straight facts 😭💯 I hate how it took me until 2021 to realise this but we as black people definitely need to start representing ourselves and creating our own media. Especially ones that don’t just stick to the same negative stereotypes and we definitely shouldn’t depend on non black people to represent us because it doesn’t always turn out right or they get lazy and blackwash instead. I wish more black people thought like this too but some are still naive and think black washed characters and depending on non black western companies will help us improve our representation when it actually worsens it 💀.
The worst part is that there are a lot of us out there creating, but most of us overlook them because they are not Disney or other corporations' creations.
@@MugenLord That’s what upsets me too 😭 and that’s why I do my part to help support independent black creators when I can and I’ll also ensure to help support any work you create when I can 💗
As I already said on other videos from you, I'm fully of the same opinion here, it's a good time to be creative, and not finding what I wanted was one of the motivation for me to try myself into the video game development and now living from it, it's hard work, but it's so fulfilling. I love seeing your passion and the fact that you push people to be creative and not destructive, I do hope that your own project gets all the success you wish for.
The thing is, they all know what's going on, it just serves them to pretend this is about "Gamer Gate Men" grifting. It's such an odd thing to be a part of the so-called culture war because it's between people who don't even care about the hobbies they've invaded, being angry at the people who are trying to protect it. Those comics from black creators all look interesting. Need to look more into them.
Just watched Kill Bill again why is there Vivica A. Fox pretty game characters? Insane. Imagine Kill Bill with a pretty black woman, it would be so awesome.
Totally agree! Like you said there is room for all types of characters and looks when building worlds BUT there is a deliberate trend of mammifying Black female characters, uglifying women in general. They hushed Del when he complained of the studio changing his feminine character design into a fat auntie with an attitude. Why is it that so many western studios put out the same Black female character, overweight with some undercut or short hairstyle and bugged out eyes? Same with emasculating Black male characters. As you said, the solution is for Black creators to start their own studios and put out the characters we want to see that are compelling, fun, interesting, and individual which is real diversity that would be a breath of fresh air from the current and constant stream of the same mammy undercut, fat, thick framed glasses or effeminate Black male characters. There is a necessity now to combat the stereotyping and that is by making your own with other likeminded people instead of begging for representation scraps. In general for all women representation in general the west has been making too many characters that look the same. not to mention when I play video games I want to escape reality. I want to see idealized people I want to play as some heroic buff hunk, I want to play as a brave beautiful woman who kicks ass and saves the day. I dont want to play as someone's auntie who bumped her cart into me at walmart.
Damn, man you said a month full of the truth I been saying this on my channel. I'm a screenwriter/director I also want to create my own black manga. Keep up the good content, bro.
Yep Mugen your 100% on the money when it comes to alot of our people just accept the hand me downs when it comes to representation. Was watching another video about this over the weekend and we both had the same opinion, where these types only find validation in white characters. Because he was talking about a grown ass man breaking down crying because they made Aragon from LoTR black. So it shows characters Static Shock, Sheva Alomar (Res 5), etc. They don't care or see them on the same level as white characters. Them can only feel represented/validation when they see a white character turned black and ignoring all the good black characters there have been iver the years.
Personally as someone who's watched this shift as a former comic book freelancer, the moment I started seeing Asian-fied race swaps of characters in comics, I knew it'd snowball into this fiasco. But who'd think it would've gotten to this point of absurdity.
@@headshotmaster138 pretty much started and became more prominent during the big reboot phases, but it gradually crept in more aggressively when comics were trying to emulate the manga/anime boom. But it was one hodge podge of influences that eventually made their way into the comics' narratives when the MCU made it more acceptable to accept it as mainstream now. To be frank though, comics had always some aspect of sociopolitical commentary. Some can elevate the narrative, while others become ham-fisted garbage. Like anything, they become products of their time. Sadly current entertainment has amplified the worst aspects of well meaning diversity and inclusion into the cesspool we now have.
We might not be going through this if black business owners didn't sell their companies to overseas and local monopolies in the 70s during Nam. Sold their kid's legacies. Still haven't gotten them back for the most part.
We would be so utterly screwed if these people existed in earlier times. Imagine thinking that you're not going to speak up and say your trith kust because you're afraid people you don't like might agree with uou. That's just cowardly. Like cut the shit out about not wanting to fuel x people.
Truth! Doing things on our own and being independent is the way to go. Let's stop making corporations richer like colleges and crap companies who abuse us and take full control of our paths. Learn a skill yourself, make your dreams actually come true. You don't need a degree or something else, you have every thing you need already. Just make things happen independently.
I still don’t subscribe to this perspective. First, beauty is subjective. Since we are talking about black women specifically. There are still western games (and media) that portrays black women beautiful. Examples: Angrboda from God Of War, T-Bug from Cyberpunk, All the black girls in Fortnite, Julianna from Deathloop, Senna from League Of Legends, Imani from Paladins, Yemoja from Smite, Jacqui Briggs from MK11, Tonya from MK1 (Look at other footage of her in the game, she looks fine.), Layla Ellison from Redfall, Homegirl from Mafia 3, Qhira from Heroes of the Storm. There also Mel Medarda and Shoola from Arcane, Drolta Tzuentes and Annette from Castlevania Nocturne, etc.
Peach brother, Preach! I agree with everything you said about Black People having to build their own IP and media because White People are NEVER going to undo the image they built of us to the world by their own hand. The aspect to this is to those who embark on the journey of IP creation is if you are showing Black People in a different light that means you are pushing against the status quo. Which means A LOT of people including Black are not going to support your product by default. Do not compare yourself to mainstream approved material and do not let the fact that the effort is going to be up hill deter you. Go into the task of IP creation with the complete expectation of success but don't expect it to be easy nor that you are owed a fair shot at it.
Good stuff. I got nothin to add this time. Agree with all of it. "Ugly as shit" made me laugh tho. People really need to call out this with Black female characters. The moment they try to play the racist card, *call them out* on how it's racist to see Black women as ugly.
No, a special sect of black people we're pushing it. There we're nany black people who we're not on border with this. They we're just called pick me, Uncle Tom, Sambo, and etc.
@MugenLord that is exactly why I stopped complaining. People know there is something wrong, and some people just don't want to acknowledge it. So I stopped buying those games. I take my money somewhere else.
@@crimsonking7179 that's what I mean. J the concept makes a very interesting point on how there is no types of black people. The ones who grew up in the hood and the ones from the suburbs. Unfortunately, the latter are the leading black voices in this industry.
Those DEI black character depictions reminds me of racist caricature of black men and women during in racially segregated south in 1930's portrayed as ugly as possible with exaggerated facial features.
And you know what's sad about that? The DEI ones are praised by or even made by blk people, which makes it worse. There were some blk artists RUclipsrs accusing the criticism of April from that TMNT of mysognoir.
Are you saying the only good representation of Black people is if they LOOK GOOD? what about if they are WELL WRITTEN? do you only care about STYLE over SUBSTANCE?
@@bradstone2898 Well, most of the these dei stuff involving blk people lacks substance and good writing. And sorry we don't root for the 30's version of blk characters like you do. Some of prefer to be not used as the anti male gaze mascot.
@@bradstone2898 Well, most of the these dei stuff involving blk characters lacks substance and good writing. And sorry we don't root for the 30's version of blk characters like you do. Some of prefer to be not used as the anti male gaze mascot.
@@bradstone2898 How about BOTH style and substance? I'm sorry, but I'm of the side that, as important as writing is, aesthetics at the end of the day still matter.
they definitely do black women the worst when it comes to looks in games, but you know what, the same septum pierced black women will applauded it because they are just happy to see black in a game. I will give props to black men, we started complaining about call of duty never really featuring us when our great grandfathers and great great grandfathers were a lot of the men actually answering the call to liberate this country and, in black ops Cold war they had some barret looking character that didn't even show up in the story and Sims barely said anything... AND we buy most of their damn games. its was ridiculous. BO6 we got a brother on the front of the box AND you have to play as him. Complaining + the truth + economic power = a big Change Complaining +the truth = no change Complaining + economic power = temporary change
I hate to feel like I have to say this, but this is just African-American and American racial culture in general at its finest. I agree with every single 0ortion of what you said, but with each passing day, my respect for the US as a whole just falls to a new low.
I made black women characters better than those vampire phonies like Disney and Suicide Squad game. Been busy playing Unicorn Overlord which had hot dark elves that would make many Western game makers look useless. That game is amazing. 😁
@@bradstone2898 That's why I've stopped using the term "woke" and instead started referencing that joke called EveryMAN Project by Tarik Carroll that even became a meme with that legendary "It'S oKaY tO bE WeaK" moment. No words needed to define it. That thing explains *everything* for itself.
isn't this proof that his argument is useless, if all he cares about is the characters looking "attractive" what if the characters have no depth otherwise?
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Will others like Del Walker finally wake up to what is going on with Western Game Studios?
Someone got to Del Walker and now he is backing down on talking about depictions of Black women in video games.
Probably not.
@@snakedoctor313typical but it's expected.
@@snakedoctor313 Yea, I just saw the tweet a few minutes ago. He said that other black Developers told him to stop talking about it, and he will now go silent.
@@MugenLord guess he didn't want to run the risk of getting blacklisted in the industry.
Make no mistakes, this guy only got pissed because HIS characters got messed with. He wouldn't give a damn about anyone else's. And as expected his peers already forced him to shut up.
Typical from these types. When they do it, it's fine. But it when happens to them, then it is a big deal.
Liberals in a nutshell
He did a GDC talk this year on advocating Black Hair styles.
He talks about Code My Crown, which is an initiative with Dove showcasing various African American hairstyles that are NOT the "Killmonger".
You guys are constantly barking up the wrong tree.
Do your research before blindly hating on the Internet.
Or just be kind, REMEMBER that. You can still make a point.
@@xdjrunner why are you everywhere?
Yeah that is what I hate the most,they only speak up about this if it's affecting their favorite games and characters
Meanwhile, Dolores from King of Fighters looks FINE AS HELL! That's how you respect black women.
And it take doesn't much too. Hell, the west used to be make attractive female characters of all race but that was along time ago.
@@headshotmaster138 Noticed how they never really make any of the male characters ugly? At times, it almost feels as though they are trying to cater to a particular community with an ever expanding alphabets
@@smathews731 I know what you mean bro.
FACTS.
From the makers of "this is happening but it doesn't affect me so it's not a bad thing" comes "this is happening and it's bad but I don't want to agree with the other side".
Prime example of ideology possessing man, rather than a man possessing an ideology.
You’ll always have everyone’s respect for having the courage to call out the hidden “ugly female” agenda, man! Funny how in video games, women are forced to be less attractive, but men are supposed to have chiseled jawlines, six pack, lean body fat, etc….😂
Facts. They never gave a shit about us. Glad you spoke on that my brotha
No prob and people swear I am coon because of my straight hair and beliefs. and don't know shit about me.
@@MugenLordmaking fun of you because of your hair is just low hanging fruit and proves they have no real argument.
9:00 BOOM. There it is, this here is the ticket. This is where you got your 59th like. The Corpos don't give a flying shit about black America, just black American dollars.
After what they've done to Maria from Silent Hill 2 I'm done caring about these folks, they are the enemy of gaming, period. I'm not even that into aesthetics, but they belong WHERE they belong in games, for the stories they are MEANT to be in, and that's being destroyed.
Welcome aboard, we've all had our individual Lines we can't tolerate anymore
I will continue to point of that these are Cultists, not tourists, etc.
"she" looks like the 2024 version of "Pat" from SNL (back when it was watchable)
I find it crazy that there's no problems replicating the actress Debra Wilson, but there's "difficulty" crafting a fine female model. 🤔
I didn't want to go there lol.
Yep. Black people had been the canary in the coal mine for decades in entertainment and media. Look at how Hollywood emasculated Black men. The cross dressing and whatnot. It's ridiculous.
I started making my own products because I want to provide a variety of Characters and have fun doing it. Not to mention that the stuff I truly wanted is not being made anymore or I rather go my own direction with it. I made a female that is a Caribbean and I loved drawing her. And I'm making more and more characters. Plus it's fun to do and I don't worry about the outside trying to get into my ear about designing my own creations.
We really really live in 1984 right now .
Yuri Bezmenov warned us of the subversion of Western values by a bunch of reactionaries hell bent on the erasure and replacement of our way of life.
Yep Hollywood does seem have that anti-sexual fun thing going on
Grocery story aunties is a hilarious description. On the other hand, butt arse ugly is the most appropriate. Bottom of my foot also works. And I love that when it happens to Del Walker's women, he raised his voice, but has been silent when other women got the bottom of my foot treatment.
You put a clip of VF on, and my gosh, I had forgotte how hot Vanessa is.
I am looking forward to your project, and hoping it succeeds. I want your stuff to actually be good so I can throw money at it. 12:28
It’s time for James O'Keefe to send his undercover journalist out on dates with Game Developer executives.
That would be nuts and I am all for it!
I like how this is becoming more and more attentive. There are a tremendous amount of beautiful women all over the place, of all nationalities and ethnicities. We don't need ONLY the worst of the worst in the games.
I wonder if those devs and designers live in areas where just ugly people exist.
It's safe to say that we should follow Frank Frazetta's adage. Because his quote perfectly represents this current situation:
Everybody knocks my female figures. They say they're overblown, that women don't look like that. And I agree. certainly all women don't look like my paintings. But you can't deny some women do look like that. I don't want to paint just another woman. A painting, it's something important; you want to look at it, maybe forever. Who wants to look at just an ordinary hero forever? You want the ultimate, you pull out the stops and do everything in extremes. The extreme in beauty, if it fits; the extreme in ugliness if it fits; the extreme in terror if this is what's required. You know, I think this is one reason that so many people enjoy my stuff, because all of these extremes are jammed into it.
So I say to you, my fellow artists: let's push the medium again into the cool, fantastical, inspirational and more importantly; aspirational facets of entertainment.
To hell with misguided idealogues and the corpos manipulating the narrative.
I love how even Japanese games are doing a better job than the west at giving us beautiful black women in games. Kimberly from SF6, Dolores from KoF, Nessa from Pokemon, Twintelle from Arms etc.
Well I guess we just look to the East to make beautiful choco women. Just look at Dolores from KoF, and Semiu from Gachiakuta.
Heck Big Sister in the anime The Promised neverland was far hotter than current day videogame women. Not to mention also far better written.
Thanks again for pointing out the hypocrisy
Whaman king was directed n written by a bunch of white R baters and that was meant as a propaganda flik to gaslight n dupe white straight Brits into buying into n accepting the disgraceful notion that our history was comprised of evil colonialists irrespective of the historical facts themselves.
To be fair pretty much most new men introduced are feminine. This isnt exlusive to black man. Tom Hollands fame is a perfect example of this
it is a conspiracy theory until there's evidence, we need people like Del inside the industry to come out and expose the truth, wether it's what we think or not. I am very glad for creatives making their own art instead of complaining. So true with that lack of proper representation, that's why I just want to make my own game.
For them to expose dei, some of them have to change their hearts and this is a very hard process since they think what they are doing is the right thing.
Everyone needs to wake tf up. It all started with Mass Effect Andromeda,where I noticed it was extremely difficult to make a good looking female character. Now here we are,a sea of games filled with Crimson chin women 😒
True. Even when I played many years after. It was still pretty tough to make a Decent female.
Facts lol!
@@RUclipsCensors it was extremely hard. My Andromeda character couldn't hold a candle to my Fem Shep.
100% correct man, chasing your dreams, fullfilling it and making it all come true, it's totally worth it, all of it, no matter the amount that has been put in, the end result is what matters ultimately.
just do it and stop being the victim of our own pasts as its a limiting factor
There's a French manga called The Last Kamit in development. It basically takes common anime tropes and puts them in an African setting. I really gotta check it out, it's really interesting. And it is made by black people.
I will definitely look into it!
That is what I don't get about the woke. if you want a black cast just set the story in a place with lots of black people naturally living there or adapt those fairy tales and mythology.
0:45 - 0:48
The way you said that had me in tears bro. On God 😂😂.
Well am I wrong? lol!!!
Mugenlod, I wish you the best with your comic project!
Wow, thanks!
You're doing good work bro, inspiring words for sure.
Thanks!
You're 100% correct man. They might not wanna see us be great, but it never wlreally was their job to. Thats on us and with how accessible the apparatus to create such content is today, a good idea is just a half done job.
Shoutout to you for posting Tuskegee Heirs! Absolutely love the artist, Marcus Williams
Yup, I met Marcus at a convention, real cool brotha!
It's good to see people who at first said it's a conspiracy theory, is finally seeing the blood in the water lol, and also yeah I also never cared if I saw myself in media, I just care if the characters are good and likeable, race doesn't matter
The longer it goes on the more pathetic the gaslighting becomes, we must ignore our lying eyes to even remotely be on the same page as these weirdos 😅
I admire your willingness to stand up and accept leadership of your community. That is the very core of masculinity, something very much lacking in this day and age. You are aware of the scorn that will bring on you and soldier on anyways. You probably aren't nearly as aware as you should be of how remarkable you are.
Thanks man, I always look forward to your words of encouragement.
They used to put attractive black women in things. I know, hard to believe. If you were alive during the 2000s, you know what I'm talking about.
Trust Me we know bro.
This reminds me of a video made by Dynamode approaching the exact same topic titled "How Western vs Japanese Games Portray Black Women". It was not the *best* in my opinion, but it was a fine video. I truly wished it got more eyes than it did.
The Forspoken MC is gorgeous but, she was written as annoying as possible. As a customer you can never have everything, you have to pick. lol
That’s soo true I thought she was really beautiful but the way she was written was terrible.
Compared to other female characters of the past no. Compared to current man-jaw "women" yes.
8:04 - 10:40 You spoke straight facts 😭💯 I hate how it took me until 2021 to realise this but we as black people definitely need to start representing ourselves and creating our own media. Especially ones that don’t just stick to the same negative stereotypes and we definitely shouldn’t depend on non black people to represent us because it doesn’t always turn out right or they get lazy and blackwash instead. I wish more black people thought like this too but some are still naive and think black washed characters and depending on non black western companies will help us improve our representation when it actually worsens it 💀.
The worst part is that there are a lot of us out there creating, but most of us overlook them because they are not Disney or other corporations' creations.
@@MugenLord That’s what upsets me too 😭 and that’s why I do my part to help support independent black creators when I can and I’ll also ensure to help support any work you create when I can 💗
@@rubyaddison5446 Thanks!
If they refuse to meet the demand new sources of supply will rise.
Del Walker reminds me of Lindsey, "im starting to think Heather isn't that good of a friend"
LOL!
As I already said on other videos from you, I'm fully of the same opinion here, it's a good time to be creative, and not finding what I wanted was one of the motivation for me to try myself into the video game development and now living from it, it's hard work, but it's so fulfilling.
I love seeing your passion and the fact that you push people to be creative and not destructive, I do hope that your own project gets all the success you wish for.
The Mugen comics will be amazing. Can't wait to preorder my copy.
Woot, amazing man, thanks!
9:45 Hey, we don't run these corporations either.
The thing is, they all know what's going on, it just serves them to pretend this is about "Gamer Gate Men" grifting. It's such an odd thing to be a part of the so-called culture war because it's between people who don't even care about the hobbies they've invaded, being angry at the people who are trying to protect it.
Those comics from black creators all look interesting. Need to look more into them.
Yea bro, we are out there creating, but sadly my people aren't looking. It doesn't count as long as Disney and other corporations aren't behind it.
@@MugenLord Yeah, I hear you. It's the same with raceswaps. I like what you're doing giving them shine, though. More and more power to you.
Just watched Kill Bill again why is there Vivica A. Fox pretty game characters? Insane. Imagine Kill Bill with a pretty black woman, it would be so awesome.
As long as it is not a race swap and just a story with similar themes set somewhere were it is logical, then yes.
Totally agree! Like you said there is room for all types of characters and looks when building worlds BUT there is a deliberate trend of mammifying Black female characters, uglifying women in general. They hushed Del when he complained of the studio changing his feminine character design into a fat auntie with an attitude. Why is it that so many western studios put out the same Black female character, overweight with some undercut or short hairstyle and bugged out eyes? Same with emasculating Black male characters. As you said, the solution is for Black creators to start their own studios and put out the characters we want to see that are compelling, fun, interesting, and individual which is real diversity that would be a breath of fresh air from the current and constant stream of the same mammy undercut, fat, thick framed glasses or effeminate Black male characters. There is a necessity now to combat the stereotyping and that is by making your own with other likeminded people instead of begging for representation scraps. In general for all women representation in general the west has been making too many characters that look the same. not to mention when I play video games I want to escape reality. I want to see idealized people I want to play as some heroic buff hunk, I want to play as a brave beautiful woman who kicks ass and saves the day. I dont want to play as someone's auntie who bumped her cart into me at walmart.
Damn, man you said a month full of the truth I been saying this on my channel. I'm a screenwriter/director I also want to create my own black manga. Keep up the good content, bro.
Thanks man and I wish you the best on your journey to become a badass screenwriter/Director!
the guy calls them grocery store aunties, brother thats straight up Steve Urkel lmao
Yep Mugen your 100% on the money when it comes to alot of our people just accept the hand me downs when it comes to representation. Was watching another video about this over the weekend and we both had the same opinion, where these types only find validation in white characters. Because he was talking about a grown ass man breaking down crying because they made Aragon from LoTR black. So it shows characters Static Shock, Sheva Alomar (Res 5), etc. They don't care or see them on the same level as white characters. Them can only feel represented/validation when they see a white character turned black and ignoring all the good black characters there have been iver the years.
I find it weird because we had plenty of good black characters back in the day.
Personally as someone who's watched this shift as a former comic book freelancer, the moment I started seeing Asian-fied race swaps of characters in comics, I knew it'd snowball into this fiasco.
But who'd think it would've gotten to this point of absurdity.
@@ericfrancisco6615 do you know the years it began?
@@headshotmaster138 pretty much started and became more prominent during the big reboot phases, but it gradually crept in more aggressively when comics were trying to emulate the manga/anime boom. But it was one hodge podge of influences that eventually made their way into the comics' narratives when the MCU made it more acceptable to accept it as mainstream now.
To be frank though, comics had always some aspect of sociopolitical commentary. Some can elevate the narrative, while others become ham-fisted garbage. Like anything, they become products of their time. Sadly current entertainment has amplified the worst aspects of well meaning diversity and inclusion into the cesspool we now have.
You reap what you sow buddy (Del Walker)
Shout out to Oshay Duke Jackson, he says it best, CREAT YOUR OWN!!! It may not be the biggest, it may not be the most polished, but it's yours. 👍🏿👍🏿
You watch Oshay too? Cool lol!
@@MugenLord yes indeed 👍🏿👍🏿
We might not be going through this if black business owners didn't sell their companies to overseas and local monopolies in the 70s during Nam. Sold their kid's legacies. Still haven't gotten them back for the most part.
Never heard of this before.
@@headshotmaster138 It's not something known by many. It puts everything into perspective tbh. It's very unfortunate.
@@troyl200 many such cases
A lot of our struggle today is self-inflicted, and I've been saying it for years, but I am called a coon for pointing that out.
@@MugenLord as someone who is half black, I hate to say this but some black people are very self destructive.
I love your videos 😮
Thanks!
I can’t wait to see what you’ve been cooking at the end of the year. I hope you got international shipping bro 😂
Thanks, I am preparing for launch as we speak. This shit is costing me a lot of money but it's worth it lol.
Speaking truth sir.
it was a legendary video.
Thanks!
All is very true!
We would be so utterly screwed if these people existed in earlier times. Imagine thinking that you're not going to speak up and say your trith kust because you're afraid people you don't like might agree with uou. That's just cowardly. Like cut the shit out about not wanting to fuel x people.
Truth! Doing things on our own and being independent is the way to go. Let's stop making corporations richer like colleges and crap companies who abuse us and take full control of our paths.
Learn a skill yourself, make your dreams actually come true. You don't need a degree or something else, you have every thing you need already. Just make things happen independently.
I still don’t subscribe to this perspective. First, beauty is subjective. Since we are talking about black women specifically. There are still western games (and media) that portrays black women beautiful. Examples: Angrboda from God Of War, T-Bug from Cyberpunk, All the black girls in Fortnite, Julianna from Deathloop, Senna from League Of Legends, Imani from Paladins, Yemoja from Smite, Jacqui Briggs from MK11, Tonya from MK1 (Look at other footage of her in the game, she looks fine.), Layla Ellison from Redfall, Homegirl from Mafia 3, Qhira from Heroes of the Storm. There also Mel Medarda and Shoola from Arcane, Drolta Tzuentes and Annette from Castlevania Nocturne, etc.
Grace from Fighting Vipers.
Suddenly, women’s beauty mattered.
For those who are wondering why I support games like bomb rush cyberfunk and stellar blade? This is why.
Real dreams change the world
Peach brother, Preach! I agree with everything you said about Black People having to build their own IP and media because White People are NEVER going to undo the image they built of us to the world by their own hand. The aspect to this is to those who embark on the journey of IP creation is if you are showing Black People in a different light that means you are pushing against the status quo.
Which means A LOT of people including Black are not going to support your product by default. Do not compare yourself to mainstream approved material and do not let the fact that the effort is going to be up hill deter you. Go into the task of IP creation with the complete expectation of success but don't expect it to be easy nor that you are owed a fair shot at it.
Its so weirrrrd like WTH is going on over here smh.
Good stuff. I got nothin to add this time. Agree with all of it.
"Ugly as shit" made me laugh tho.
People really need to call out this with Black female characters. The moment they try to play the racist card, *call them out* on how it's racist to see Black women as ugly.
100%
I soo wish we start getting more black game developers I know those games would be best sellers
Let's not act like Black people weren't the ones who were pushing for this shit as well. Look at the people who work for SBI or other studios.
No, a special sect of black people we're pushing it. There we're nany black people who we're not on border with this. They we're just called pick me, Uncle Tom, Sambo, and etc.
@@crimsonking7179 Exactly! We got drowned out by these people.
@MugenLord that is exactly why I stopped complaining. People know there is something wrong, and some people just don't want to acknowledge it. So I stopped buying those games. I take my money somewhere else.
@MugenLord after all, they say I'm bigot. So, I act accordingly.
@@crimsonking7179 that's what I mean. J the concept makes a very interesting point on how there is no types of black people. The ones who grew up in the hood and the ones from the suburbs. Unfortunately, the latter are the leading black voices in this industry.
Atleast Senna from League of Legends escaped this uglification.
That's cause Riot still wants the skins to sell in Asia, they're the ones that keep the game free for us 😂
Those DEI black character depictions reminds me of racist caricature of black men and women during in racially segregated south in 1930's portrayed as ugly as possible with exaggerated facial features.
And you know what's sad about that? The DEI ones are praised by or even made by blk people, which makes it worse. There were some blk artists RUclipsrs accusing the criticism of April from that TMNT of mysognoir.
Are you saying the only good representation of Black people is if they LOOK GOOD? what about if they are WELL WRITTEN? do you only care about STYLE over SUBSTANCE?
@@bradstone2898 Well, most of the these dei stuff involving blk people lacks substance and good writing. And sorry we don't root for the 30's version of blk characters like you do. Some of prefer to be not used as the anti male gaze mascot.
@@bradstone2898 Well, most of the these dei stuff involving blk characters lacks substance and good writing. And sorry we don't root for the 30's version of blk characters like you do. Some of prefer to be not used as the anti male gaze mascot.
@@bradstone2898 How about BOTH style and substance? I'm sorry, but I'm of the side that, as important as writing is, aesthetics at the end of the day still matter.
I grew up with entertainment and the only thing that I always cared about was good gameplay and story telling.
How do we buy the book?
I will be launching the Campaign at the end of the year so just stick around my channel and twitter for announcements.
they definitely do black women the worst when it comes to looks in games, but you know what, the same septum pierced black women will applauded it because they are just happy to see black in a game.
I will give props to black men, we started complaining about call of duty never really featuring us when our great grandfathers and great great grandfathers were a lot of the men actually answering the call to liberate this country and, in black ops Cold war they had some barret looking character that didn't even show up in the story and Sims barely said anything... AND we buy most of their damn games. its was ridiculous.
BO6 we got a brother on the front of the box AND you have to play as him.
Complaining + the truth + economic power = a big Change
Complaining +the truth = no change
Complaining + economic power = temporary change
When did black men complain about call of duty? Also, you're correct about black women.
I hate to feel like I have to say this, but this is just African-American and American racial culture in general at its finest. I agree with every single 0ortion of what you said, but with each passing day, my respect for the US as a whole just falls to a new low.
I don't see what's wrong.
How Ironic, though this dude was a chick
In my defence..that hair
Hmm
Plus that 40/50+ black woman face
No offence
I made black women characters better than those vampire phonies like Disney and Suicide Squad game. Been busy playing Unicorn Overlord which had hot dark elves that would make many Western game makers look useless. That game is amazing. 😁
100% agree, I’ve been playing way too much!
@@Noblelight871 Galerius is a true beast and I had to fight him four times. Great villain.
Those lefties and their buzzword.
righties and their buzzword: WOKE
@@bradstone2898 It's called patterns recognition.
@@bradstone2898 That's why I've stopped using the term "woke" and instead started referencing that joke called EveryMAN Project by Tarik Carroll that even became a meme with that legendary "It'S oKaY tO bE WeaK" moment.
No words needed to define it. That thing explains *everything* for itself.
Forspoken had a hot protagonist but I dreaded the writing and game mechanics.
isn't this proof that his argument is useless, if all he cares about is the characters looking "attractive" what if the characters have no depth otherwise?
@@bradstone2898 Its good to address the outliers anyone with sense would bring up its a eastern company.
😆 play sf6 world tour and inspect every NPC. Most of them are ugly and clearly showing us a signs
You won’t say it but I will, I don’t want to anything ugly but monsters and beasts.
LMAO!