Insane Genshin Impact "Boycott" Is Backfiring
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- As Genshin Impact rolls out its new "Natlan" region, fans are attempting to boycott because they believe HoYoverse is white-washing these new characters.
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IGN: Genshin Impact is being accused of cultural appropriation.
Gamers: And Assassin's Creed: Shadows?
IGN: ......
AC shadows is even being obvious with its cultural appropriation - theyre using a national treasure of japan as part of their marketing without permission.
Beyond that, AC: shadows focusing on yasukes african american identity as a character trait is such a crazy thing to see.
@@SorrelYT "African American identity"?
He was just African. Man was never even in the Americas. What the fuck are you talking about?
Or are you one of those people who use "African American" as a stand-in for "Black", even when the person isn't American?
@@SorrelYT How can he be African American if he probably never went to America? That's imo the biggest clue that these people are the real racists, they think all black people are African American, when that's like a few million people vs a good few hundreds of millions in Africa.
IGN: ...shut up
Genshin May draw inspiration from real life stuff, but it's still a pure fantasy game. AC Shadows is claiming historical accuracy and has been caught with many inconsistencies
I like how these people call it whitewashing when these characters never existed before and were never black to begin with
Headcannons, just like they claim, erasure when a female character shows an interest in a male
@Larry_Mate
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It's a fictional nation in Teyvat that was created by a Chinese company.
@Larry_Mate 🗿🗿🗿
@Larry_Mate Dark skin is like honey for me because they have to work in the field to plant beans potatoes or even cacao so their tanned skin is here
@Larry_Mate I am from latin america fella, and I can assure you most of the people here are not african black, and there is a considerable portion of the people who are european white. The only color I can use to describe how a large proportion of the people look is Tanned color. Caramel, perhaps.
Oh and btw, about half of the people in Africa are not black skinned. Almost the entire north Africa is populated by Arabians and mediterranean people. Those are not black, but rather mild brown.
Calling white skinned characters pasty while complaining about racism is certainly something.
@@guanglaikangyi6054 Funny enough, they bullied a Polish person who was having issues with Hoyo misrepresenting their culture with Snezhnaya.
...And they say they're not racist.
People don't understand what racism actually is nowadays.
A lot of these people have openly stated that they don't think it's possible to be racist to white people. Which shows their true "colors" LOL.
@@Ihaveabomb-v4n "i'm offended on behalf of those who are actually affected"
Almost like people who constantly try to claim everything is racist are in fact racist themselves.
My favourite tweet from this:
I'll take the boycott seriously when a single person from natlan complains 😂
LMFAO
Boycott Ubisoft for bastardising Japanese culture and history: Nah.
Boycott Hoyoverse for fictional characters not having the “correct” skin tone: Yes.
😂
that's how you know it's about virtue signaling and not principles
So why didn’t they boycott when they did it with middle eastern, Italian, colonel American etc
The answer is simple, it’s historical fiction yasuke was real and was a samurai and outside of a couple of fun facts that’s all we know
Not saying Ubisoft didn’t choose yasuke and make the ninja chick for woke reasons I’m just saying the argument is redundant, we should be talking about the anti-consumer practices poor gameplay more so
@@garrettlich7140yasuke was not a samurai. If you’re referring to someone whose work was holding their boss’s stuff as a samurai, then you’re painting with a broad brush there mate.
@@ArdanaMI during that time thier were many ranks to samurai, I’m not saying he was high ranking but he was given house and sword and would entertain nobunagas court, these are liberty’s and a duty given to samurai
Considering how little info their is on yasuke I don’t doubt he was of lower rank and or less accomplished
Ubisoft is just indie game company :v
Guys I complained to my local government about my gacha game being racist, they hung up on me 😭
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Sh*t, your local government is racist. 😭
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The Chinese gatcha game at that as well
Same here, they're telling me to plant some grass in front of my house 😔😔
People on twitter being furious for a CHINESE company "whitewashing" yet again...
Always hilarious tbh
Notices they’re like black and indigieonous lol. I love that they never thought a chines company isn’t drawing white people lol.
They’re’ all chinese cause they’re all drawn by cheese artist lol..
Confucius laughs
People on Twitter and UA-cam complaining about American Companies using diverse casts and calling it “Cultural Appropriation” for Assassins Creed Shadows will always be hilarious.
You see how dumb your excuse is?
@@2BAMaster9That's not the main problem. As someone said, they claimed their games is 'historical accurate', yet all those things they did is not that accurate.
Why did they made many mistakes on their merch regarding a family's crest and the Kanji writings if they claimed so? Remember that recently they got caught for using Zorro's sword merch (?) instead of historically accurate 'samurai sword' and made it by themselves? Why put a hip hop music on a Japanese culture setting, is it because the main character is black?
@@2BAMaster9Culturql Appropriation of JAPANESE culture by claiming their FICTIONAL story are historically accurate. Educate yourself bro. You look not smart.
Edit: Japanese people has no issue if Ubisoft just adnit their Yasuke story is only fictional. They can't accept they promote it as historical fact.
When hades does it it's ok
When disney does it it's ok
When ubisoft does it it's ok
When hoyoverse does it, it's not ok
Can't put my finger on why is that
their demographic is ultraaaa sensitive and fragile teenage twitter users so it makes sense🤣
Bro hoyo basically said
Your culture is beautiful, but not your people.
Mind you, The ppl r also part of the culture, We all were expecting melanin in natlan. A region full of heat, and wtf did we get?
Like, am not tryna be racist to yt ppl but com'n the rest of the game is them.
I bet a lot of indians were disappointed when sumeru came out.. Only the NPCs and enemies seem to be dark, its sad.. To think this game is full of racist ppl as well.. Sheesh.
Like just seeing some comments on this vid- i was disgusted by some of them.
They're racist.
because Chinese company don't pay them the ransom money。
@@TYROSYoh my god! It's almost as if it's fiction!?
Grow tf up
"Plays Genshin"
"Bored"
"Wahhh, why there's no black characters in it!"
"Complains to X"
"Nothing happens"
"Bored"
"Plays Genshin"
The cycle repeats itself
Those people don't even play the game for fun, they play to farm drama.
@@darkreaper2528 Farm drama and fetishize lesbians, that is the life of the average Genshin player.
I played, got bored, and never played again
what´s funny to me is that when Hoyo does release a black character, absolutely no one uses them. Kaeya and Candace for example
It will take like 2 months for them to eventually move on from that kind of stuff. Just look how Hoyo survived the Sumeru incident
Caring more about fictional characters than real people…typical Twitter
they should just add a "twitter mode" to genshin that just makes the skin of every character betewen 3 and 10 shades darker or browner >_> maybe then people can play in peace...
you mean typical leftists.
@@Fylasfrommabi Hoyoverse just simply don’t care! Especially after tect stupidly failed to ignite 2nd holy Genshin war
I honestly don't care about what hoyo decides on their designs.
@@ricardohoang8452 tect?P the second WHAT? were grails involved? jokes aside, is there some keyword I can use to search for this so I can look it up?
What angers me the most about these people, is that they're not even part of the culture they believe is being "misrepresented", they believe that the only thing that is important of a given culture is the skin color of the people, and that's just plain racism. Those of us who are part of those cultures could not care less, we just want a fun game and cool characters.
I don't even like the game but with how the fanbase acts, it almost makes me wanna defend the company lol. they are bonkers.
I, and many others are a part of these cultures fighting for representation. All we want is more diversity, it’s not that much to ask for. Imagine a company using your culture for money and entertainment and they cant even represent your indigenous people correctly. The pyro archon is inspired by a polynesian fire deity but looks nothing like them. If they cant represent peoples cultures properly then they shouldn’t at all.
As someone who's concerned, it is true that this fandom is absolutely brainless and I love genshin impact, but personally I'm still a little upset that they are not just slightly darker. But also there's no reason to boycott since it's their game and they will do what they want anyway. For people that can't stand it any more it's just best for them to stop playing the game.
@@professorpenne9962it's just the loud minority but they're still very annoying.
LOUDER PLS. It makes me so mad people are reduced to skin color... like STOP. If that isn't racism idk what is. Getting upset is fine, but going batshit mad is INSANE
If you don't like it, simply don't play it. That's how a boycott actually works.
Literally. They keep talking and complaining but refuse to stop playing the game for some reason
@@gostix8599 ppl r allowed to be critical of a game and still play it though???
@@suckygoose100 But if you don't like what Hoyo has done, just stop supporting/playing the game, it's honestly not hard to just uninstall the game and move on from it, but do remember that these characters and the game's story is fictional, this is not to be taken to heart at all, you should have more better things to worry about than literal pixels on a screen. But if you don't want to uninstall the game and still complain then... Why complain at all in the first place, this makes no sense at all? If this makes you upset just ignore anything Hoyo related, uninstall the games and move forward and find better things to do, I promise you'll feel better for it.
@@KirbyCelesty i get what you're saying, but why just let blatant racism go unnoticed? i REAALLY dont like the stuff they do with MY culture, but that doesnt mean i have to stop playing the game entirely, i still like some aspects of the game, like the elemental systems, the story, and especially the characters, genshin is a FREE to play game, so that means the only money that goes to them is the money they get is from ingame purchases. and that what the boycott is for, to PREVENT people from buying stuff ingame. and even though these characters are pixels on a a screen its still racist that they take aspects of my culture and not respect the people of which my culture is from. fiction cant just be taken at face value, as some fictitious stories can have some truth to them and reveal stuff about their authors. i am complaining because they are whitewashing my culture, and that should be something to complain about.
@@suckygoose100How are they white washing "your" culture?
I'm from latin america, and this boycott is pointless.
They actually don’t know where Latin people come from, I was upset when they made Miles black as a Puerto Rican lol
@@FrostyMts TBF he is half Puerto Rican, half African-American.
@@cpubigdipper9145 fr
@@FrostyMts that one's fine since the guy's mixed. Black dad, PR mom
Thanks for your support bros.
As a black man I've never cared if the games characters were of color, I just want to play games I enjoy, and am looking forward to the update
I feel you, but there's tons of context missing in this video, all the areas they are complaining about is like not a "fictional country" it's literally 1 to 1 copies of an entire culture from various countries.
The argument at the end of the day is if they are too lazy to make like an original country and decide to use a real one they should properly represent it.
@@siriusxfm4328 You clown.
Representation is not a requirement for inspiration. Especially when it's a fictional fantasy world.
@@siriusxfm4328 It's not real brother, it doesn't have to be like or do anything similar. Inspiration is just that, get out of your own head every now and then. It's make believe 😂
@@launeedsausername dawg read the comment but slowly, it's not "inspiration" it's literally copying, I'm not out here fighting the good fight but if dudes gonna cover the story he should actually research the full context. There's tons of not a good look shit in the game
Also dead ass to be so up in arms about the assassins creed yasuke stuff but calling this stupid is wild as hell
you don't represent black people and other minorities' voices, who actually want to be represented.
My favourite part is that the same people complaining about the "whitewashing" of ORIGINAL CHARACTERSS JUST INVENTED FOR A FICTIONAL UNIVERSE are the same cheering for Ubisoft culturally appropriating japanese history and fanfitioning a historical character while claiming him to be historically accurate.
How do you even whitewash characters you created from a nation of your own making?
@@vegeta002 that's the trick: you don't... but good luck having certain people understand that.
Because in the first case they demand to give them a self-insert, and in the second they have already received it.
@@andrewfantome4020 They can have their Yasuke.
@@someguyonyt9270 "they have already received it."
These people think skin color is culture
That really annoys me. I had to explain multiple times I'm white and latino. Progressives seem to think where you're born determines your skin color rather then genetics.
They are rainbow color team - ( Germany football team at quatar2022 )
It dosent hurt to add more black characters. Hoyo says that their games are for people all over the world, yet they can't add more diverse skintones
@@yulslays because they don't have to...
@@yulslays A product being for a global audience does not mean it has to have characters of every possible race in it. For decades, Japan made video games and anime where all the characters were Japanese and people loved them. It's only recently that entitled groups have started demanding "representation" in everything.
god forbid you make a fictional region filled with a fictional race of people.
Oh the humanity of it all...
@@neonraindrop8357 this but unironically. People hate on you for disliking characters they like, they also hate for liking "problematic" characters. You just can't have any opinion anymore
I hope the DEVs dont change a damm thing. 🤣
To be fair, god forbid I want to see variety in character design. Or have the designs make sense in accordance to the landscape that the region is based off of. If you're making a desert region where someone pale would likely sunburn often, then it makes sense for people in that region to have darker skin. I think Genshin is dogshit anyways, but bad fiction is bad fiction, it doesn't mean Hoyo isn't being stupid about it.
These people know anime Characters tend to be pale skin, especially when made by Asian devs but they think referencing cultures means there must be dark skin characters. They playing games to collect races.
Remember when voice actors just got paid to voice act and not spout politics? Good times. Seriously, who do these lunatics think they are.
Ya they do that in every country but america😂😂 where they are paid the most and tend to be the worst dubs
Defund EN VAs and make their voices AI. Problem solved.
That's why I don't use english voice over, the voice actor brings their woke agendas into the game
@@Dasbrucey Hot garbage, cause apparently, the likes and followers you have on social media seems to indicate how much (non-existent) influence you can exert to the plebs and make them bow to your whims.
Honestly, it's not all voice actors. Just like the general populace, most voice actors tend to stay away from armchair activism (good example is Erika Harlacher Stone), while there is a few who are VERY LOUD AND VERY PROUD to vocalize it ( I hope everyone sees what I did there, ain't I a big brian clever boy?).
“I’m uncomfortable these characters skin are too dark stop black washing everything I don’t want to see dark everywhere”. Imagine me saying that especially over fictional characters. We’re all tired of the anti white/anti fair skin hate & all it does is make those same ppl despise you.
Absolutely, these people are ridiculous...
@@sandman0819 bro and I’m Moroccan!! But it makes me glad when I see non European people call this BS out because it can feel isolating. If it isn’t okay for us to say anything about blacks, why are white open season? The only race in the world you can openly be racist to with no repercussions at all.
It's so hard for them to understand that the Asian devs, in an Asian country would make pale skin characters that looks like themselves. They're making characters for them and their people in their country and anime characters are usually also pale skinned. Then again they call Asian people "white adjacent" but they're the ones to always scream racism....
@@Veslelia_cw Japan doesn't make everyone pale when they make anime set in Native American lands. Ever watched The Mysterious Cities of Gold? Classic anime.
Thank you 😭
Fun fact: all archons in the game are inspired by the Ars Goetia, a book that describes and names the demons of hell, nome of the archons LOOK nor ACT even 1% like their demons counterpart, yet when it involves race everyone loses their minds
💯 I don't want daddy morax to look biblically-accurate.
Indeed, pretty sure Beezlebub is not a purple big booba sword waifu
@@icecellthe ars goetia is not linked to the bible tbf so no need to worry about that
above all, all archons are in-universe alternate characters from Honkai Impact 3rd so making them be of different race would break worldbuilding a bit lmao
@@zelhin6744 true
"Don't speak over people who are affected"
Literally what they're doing, except the people they're getting angry for probably don't give a shit
No, the people they are angry about don't even exist. They are virtue signaling over a race and region that doesn't exist in real life. These fools are unhinged and can't separate fact from fiction. It's truly scary.
Yeah. I'm sure they are all trans gay Native Americans.
i promise you there’s a lot of us who do in fact care because Mihoyo is taking our culture and fucking it all up
@@DancingMachineMoMo Have you conducted a survey? And what kind of culture is it spoiling and how?
@@andrewfantome4020 why would i conduct a survey if you are referring to the one inside of genshin yes i have filled that out and the cultures it is spoiling from is too many to be named but i will name the ones off my head maori, yoruba, Swana these are simply the ones off the top of my head there is much much more
Continue to play for free without spending money? That is, to be an ordinary dude who doesn’t have free money to donate? What kind of boycott is this?
Satanichia :3
So they're saying, "LET'S BOYCOTT THE GAME!! Without quitting the game"?
It's called performative activism.
Sorry to them they have no salt to spend on it but I was bitten by ellen joe from ZZZ that is worth a salt for my heart too
The kind where it's more important to announce what you want to do than actually doing anything.
So let me get this straight
They're mad because they're too "cultural appropriate"
But then get mad because it's not "appropriate to their culture" enough?
And then they get mad if you *don't* represent their culture.
You can't win with these losers...
Remember, these are the same types that are perfectly fine with games like Hades or GOW: Ragnarok race swapping actual Mythological Characters from other cultures because “it’s fiction”.
@@DMAN99 meanwhile I would be fine with Angrboda being brown cause Jotunn comes in all shapes and colors (they're not even human, just human shaped). If Surtr is human torch, a brown Angrboda is not far off. Then I hear these activists, now I hate Angrboda.
@@varnix1006the issue is, you can tell it’s DEI and not natural at all.
Its a communist tactic
I said it many times and I'll say it again: Inspiration ≠ Representation
Yupp, people fail to realize that we’re talking about Hoyo, those mfs never cared about any cultural representation to begin with. They live in a racially homogeneous country they don’t know shit about other cultures 😂
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even if hoyoverse try to represent the culture, its still a bad idea. its like white people try to represent black people. it may work but it still far from perfect.
“Exactly! We are inspired by your culture! But we are not inspired by your skin colour! Toodles 😘 xoxo Hoyoverse!” Do you realize why this leaves a sour taste in so many peoples mouths now?
If Evangelion and Sailor Moon were released today, people would boycott them.
Unbelievable.
Why would they boycott Sailor Moon?
It has lesbian superheroines and gay bad guys
@@disappearingangel4972Because there is no "diverse ethnicity". The darker tone skin is from Sailor Pluto and she is surely not afrodescendant (probably she is from Ainu people).
@@disappearingangel4972 no black
@@disappearingangel4972because sailor moon doesn't have blacks, fats, and not ugly
@@BerryBabaBear Plenty of uglies, but they're all villains.
the ironic thing about the voice actors demanding the characters to be changed is that a lot of them are the same people who will get mad when soneone voices a character whose skin tone doesn't match their own.
I mean... pick a side lol. If Hoyo caves and changes the character design, then by their own logic, they shouldn't be allowed to voice them anymore.
Ah, the classic “black should voice black” and then they show a picture of a character who isn’t actually black.
Yeah, this is going to quickly become a mess considering how many they hire Western VAs of mixed Asian origin just because the game is Chinese.
They don't learn from ProZd lmao. Dude backtracked real fast when he realized Asians are underrepresented in USA.
@@DMAN99
ProZD moment
@@HashiNuke God, I loved the moment that his own ideology bit him in the ass when his agent apparently told him he should just voice Asians.
Natlan is a fictional location. I don't think these people understand the difference between reality and fiction.
Natlan's skin is the same color as a female character in Pocahontas
There are a whole generation of people now who don't understand that what they see on a screen isn't necessarily reality.
So what’s the difference between this and Assassin’s Creed Shadows?
@@2BAMaster9 Cause AC: Shadow is marketed as "historical fiction". To fill in the gaps of written history. Writing Yasuke as real deal Samurai turned the game into straight up fanfiction.
@2BAMaster9 That they felt like making the mc black and genshin didn't. There just basing of an irl culture genshin decided if the character will be of color or not that's there decision and at the end there just pixels it hurts no one
Funny how those guys who complain about "racism" are actually the racists themselves
The chinese are use to their behavior and refer to them as "白左"
I saw some calling white skinned characters pasty
I saw people saying that the kid who was cosplaying as Nahida was better than the actual Nahida because of his skin color
You can see it in those recoloring tweets where they go to darker shades
These braindead idiots think there are 3 skin colors white , asian and black
I hate the sentiment that people need to be represented in every form of media. The devs decided they wanted to make how it is, why should they cater to every word those twitter freaks say.
Should i get angry now because fat, balding, white people are not represented?
I don’t get why people look for games to have representation of themselves tbh
@@hayliannnbecause they want to be special. It's the main character syndrome. If they can't be the main character, then having a side character, regardless of how shallow they are, will make them feel validated as the main character.
Ever wonder why in "diverse" works the lead character ends up being a self insert?
@@kyotanaka920it’s not main character syndrome. You know the amount of darker skinned people there are out there? As a darker skinned person myself I don’t care if characters are white or not but how are you going to base characters of my culture then not even bother making a darker skinned character. Even Liyue and Monstadt had better representation then Natlan 😭
@@kyotanaka920is it wrong just wanted a character the same skin tone as you?
Yes, I’m sure the pixelated fictional characters will thank these boycotters for their pixel activism
The characters are negatively affected because they aren't dark enough😢
Meanwhile, HSR released the drip marketing for Feixiao. Aka, HSR fox mommy number 3.
And you don't see HSR fans demanding Hoyoverse to make all the Xianlou Luofu characters look more Asian.
if people want to have characters that look like them, why not just play monster hunter or pso2 where you can basically endlessly customize the characters you play as? 🤔
@@Veslelia_cw I have a feeling they will always complain no matter what. imagine having life so good that the melatonin level on a gacha game character is your biggest worry in life 😅
actually we're thanking ourselves, because we are using our voices to get representation for us
They can't even stop playing the game, but think they should go and contact local politicians
Watch their financial report show them making as much money as before, with none of them being able to stop their addiction to the game but they oh so want to boycott. Also annoys me that they will take time away from their local politicians, whose job it is to help people to talk about how their Chinese anime game characters aren't dark skinned enough.
@@Veslelia_cw they forgot, their local government can't do anything about it. They just feel entitled but no brain.
Ironically, those who scream "make em darker!" don't care much about the darker characters the game already has just bc they're not meta
hoyo makes the darker character non-meta likely on purpose. twice is a coincidence, three+ times is intentional.
@@izanagiuzumaki7325 Probably cuz they have the target audience that doesn't care/want minority rep. That's not what it's looking for. Make the target audience WANT it and hoyo will put some slightly darker characters
@@toffee9447+ That's why self hatred that Asians have is a problem
@@izanagiuzumaki7325this is peak cherry picking. there are multiple pale non-meta characters, why is it a big deal when they're dark skinned lol
@@ky_rien there are several "white" metas and a handful of "white" non-meta. There are 0 "non-white" metas, across all their games. Deyha, Xinyan, Arlan, etc etc.
I think it's a self fulfilling prophecy. Make "non-whites" non meta and not worth pulling unless you're a simp, they get poor sales, and then Hoyo can go "see, dark skin doesn't sell."
The woke fake fans did this exact same thing over Nahida for being too white and loli.
Nahida then became one of the most popular characters ever.
Real fans love the new designs.
Exactly
This is Hoyo's fault for not understanding the target demographic lmao.
the boycott ppl love her too lolol its just viture signalling. They dont really care
Do they support this game if not so let it be a fruit for us to eat and let their fruitless for them to boycott this game
and now she's my wife fr
Your local politician is there to help people in your area. You're going to take away help from real people, to tell your local politician that your anime Chinese gatcha game characters aren't dark enough?????? These are real people in our society btw.
We can only hope that these are kids. Otherwise where ever these people live that place is fucked.
like what are the local politicians supposed to do about people telling them that a chinese games characters characters arent dark skinned enough?
So Should we tell Trump that, so that he can give them an usual "Trump-Like" answer and provide some fun for us?
They no brain anyway.
I guess the voice actors forgot about what happened when Snowbreak's VA's tried to be activists.
Koi has always been a lefty trasher… I’m surprised he hasn’t been fired sooner if he is.
Tbf, they didn't want to come back because of fanservice
@@azaril7780And the supposed dev of the said game don't bother LOL.
@@azaril7780 they didnt come back because they know they cant do fanservice voice acting
skill issue basically
Everytime someone mentioned about the Snowbreak situation, I have to remind people that they have been fired for around 4 months before Snowbreak dev approach them again to reprise their role. The VA themselves never make a stink about them getting fired and never make a stink about the game becoming more fanservice.
In my opinion, the reason why they don't reprise their role is either because the game is becoming more fanservice, which good on the VA on having a stance and sticking with it and again, never make a big fuss about it, or to avoid getting booted again if the game goes under, which considering that the VA is the first thing to go when the game is bleeding, a good decision to make.
Hoyoverse should sue them for suggesting fake review bombing
That make hoyo getting more money but hoyo choose not to. Hoyo was kind there for caring those kid keep barking other side of the lake.
@@zachheadhunter9551 yeah, Hoyo is always kind, it's a good thing but people take advantage of it
@@darkreaper2528 Still they failed and crying something they never get. They wasting their own time like doesn't have any life to do.
@@zachheadhunter9551 yeah, they're annoying, anything reasonable goes over their head haha
@@darkreaper2528 hahaha. Sometime is fun to watch their idiotic behaviour. Its make me smart. Hahaha
The funny thing is that us here in latin america, the vast majority dont give a crap about their skin. We find all them cute/hot regardless. The only people making a fuss are mainly americans
The only true cause of arguments is if you pick Rugal.
TBH, I'm Brazilian, and I wanted some dark-skinned waifus, and Murata/Mahuika to be dressed like a carnival's "Rainha do Samba" like the earliest leaks suggested. Not because of representation or idiotic BS like that which I couldn't care less, but because I like dark-skinned waifus too, so much I'm pulling mostly for Xilonen, Citlali and Iansan, the cutest girl after Nahida on this game, while the whiter ones like Chasca didn't really got me interested. Maybe she has an awesome personality and a fun kit, but on looks alone, it's a skip for me.
However, Olorun looks quite "Native American/cowboy" to me, wouldn't it better to give him a name from those regions instead and give Olorun's name to someone from Iansan's tribe? I bet if Olorun was her tribe's chief or something, there would be way less complaints, not just because Iansan is darker than him, but because both are from the same religion. Whenever I think about a man named after him, I think of a "Pai de Santo" all clad in white or something, not a native american cowboy.
But my highest complaint is the fact we haven't seen much mesoamerican aesthetics, and instead, we got this "graffiti aesthetics" I ain't fond of, it looks quite out of place on Genshin and more ZZZ-like. Where's muh Jaguar Warior bringing human sacrifices atop a pyramid? That's why Sumeru for me still has the most beautiful aesthetics of all regions, it both looks arabic and elvish at the same time.
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person FGO’s got you covered there, they got some good Mesoamerican stuff and dark skinned waifu’s.
Exactly, gringos don't understand we are the product of race mixing. Our skin tones go from milk white to charcoal black
@@DMAN99 FGO is the GOAT.
Brain rot is real asf
Can't wait for twitter to boycott shikanoko for whatever reason
@@youravghuman5231 I love that anime, but I am also not on twitter. So I don't have preview to how absurd people are taking the deer anime.
THE BRAIN ROT IS REEEEAAAAL!!
🎵"Can we get much lower (lower)
So loooow."🎵
Twitter boycott anime characters for having pale skin like anime characters usually do. More news at 7.
In my opinion, brainrot memers are better than these clowns.
You know, one of the best decisions I made when I started playing Genshin is to stay the hell away from Genshin Twitter and Reddit. Save me a world of headache.
staying away from twitter/reddit period is probably best for anyone's mental health.
staying out off those platforms is generally a good decision to make.
yeah man I agree I also have tried to stay away from the fandom but sometimes you just come across it and its just terrible because if I tell others I play genshin they might think of me as one of these weirdos
Agreed really the only place that I can find normal genshin fans is here on UA-cam as most of the people that I watch either don't talk about this sort of stuff at all or they said their opinion once or twice but don't act like it's the end of the world
Reddit is fine, it's just twitter that's toxic
I saw a post on Twitter from Sucrose’s VA talking about the character Ororun and the Nigerian deity he is based on saying something akin to: “A quick Google search will show what a great job Smite did at interpreting this God” and “It’s unforgivable what Hoyo did”
I did a Google search on that deity, Olorun, too and found that according to Yoruba theology the deity (keyword here) Olorun is formless. The Yoruba people never depicted their deity as being a specific gender, race or even having a humanoid form, rather it seems to be a deity that speaks through certain designated vessels. Seeing that Smite depicted Olorun as being a God that resembles the people of Nigeria is a logical design choice, however to say that form is “canonical” for a formless deity is pure opinion, not fact.
I did the same thing quick google search and it says that Olorun has no form and the Google search i did also said that olorun represents all that is white like bones, clouds and according to some, brains
okay, but genshin is giving the god a form, they aren’t being realistic so if they aren’t going to stick true to the nature of the god, then why not at least represent the people the god was written about? because if the yoruba people were to give olorun a form, he wouldn’t be a skinny white man
but genshin isn’t being realistic in the sense they are making him formless, they’re making him a humanoid playable character… if a character is meant to be a humanoid version of a yoruba god, why is he white??
@@robloxuseryoshifaiis Read the comment above u, he represents all that is white, bones clouds and according to some, brains.
hoyo should fire every single one of them and use AI.
Genshin is a good game. Sadly the Twitter Genshin community is the opposite of good.
It's really not. But for gameplay reasons, not these "reasons"
As someone who plays genshin rarely the more i progress. I can understand
No it is not. It's a terrible game. With a highly overrated stretched out story. An open world with absolutely nothing meaningful to do in it. No endgame whatsoever. And extremely predatory systems across the board. It's nowhere near a good game. The people crying are the ones they pander to. Super casual pretend gamers. They deserve this. Even though "this" is nothing.
@@Raptchurcompared to every other triple A slop, Genshin is amazing.
And yes, Genshin is still triple A slop in my opinion but still.
@@Kaltsit- It forfeits comparison to any of those games by adopting the gacha formula. I can tell by your name you play an actual good gacha game. Open world like this doesn't translate with gacha. Everything is restricted so it can last 10 years. It's a trash game. In every single way other than music... it's a trash game.
when will they realize saying a character isnt dark enough is a form of racism too
FOR REAL.
Not to mention, kinda harmful to light POCs. I'm sure they've gotten that a lot for not being dark enough; not sure if they want to see that on a game they like, too.
they prove themselves to be racist every single day
the lack of melanin is already a form of racism first of all. and now with the whitewashing (portraying black entities with WHITE skin), it's got even worse and you cant defend this company anymore
Same day they understand that the concept of race as a whole is racist. Never, because racism is ingrained in American culture to the core.
@@EndymionArchivehalf of the genshin characters are basically light pocs, that's the thing. People were hyped up for sumeru expecting darker characters, then were disappointed. Everyone was like "wait for natlan" and hoyo didn't even TRY.. there's only one black natlan character revealed so far, and their skintone is just grey..
I'm not trying to be offensive towards light pocs btw, just saying that hoyo needs to get better at representing cultures.
I dont expect a 12 year old company with only 10 games, to go out their way to care about representating a black people in a fictional game. When a 38 year old company can't represent Japan or its History.
how is it not representing japan or it's history by only having one black character who existed in history, but with slight changes
@@ilovehoyoverse You seriously don't see the problem in a japanese person not wanting to play as a black protag in a game that takes place in Japan while k.i.l.l.i.n.g japanese people? Cope harder colonizer.
@@ilovehoyoverse "slight changes" that they claim "historically accurate", which is not true. It's so bad that the ambassador of Japan got involved.
@@diamondcrafter78shane68 i never said it was true that it was historically accurate
When they speak about culture, the first thing thing came to mind is skin color?!
"anti-racists"
Love the response from customer support one user got after making a ticket. "Please be kindly reminded that GI is a work of fiction and is not related to actual people, events, groups, or organizations." Absolutely based 🤣
Who ever wrote that deserves a raise because they're aren't being paid enough for this shit.
Ultra max based CS's response
Almost all novels/games/ or any media will have this disclaimer anyway
mavuika - a maori deity
citlali - a feminine name of nahuatl origins that means "star"
kinich - a mayan sun god
kachina - a spirit being from the religious beliefs of the hopi tribe
mualani - a hawaiian high chiefess
iansan - a yoruba orisha of storms
xilonen - an Aztec goddess of Agriculture
chasca - a character in salvadoran folklore
ororon - a yoruba supreme deity
ajaw - a known word in several mayan languages, typically meaning "lord"
@@ilovehoyoversegreat, you know how to google! I have a kitten in my name, it's an animal with pointy ears. Am I one?
"Look, Mr. Senator, I understand that child poverty is important and all... BUT GENSHIN IMPACT IS BEING RACIST! You must sp- Hello...?"
They should gather all the people boycotting, fund their own game. Call it Wakanda impact. Make it how they want, no one will complain.
They couldn't even bother helping the guy whom made that Zau game, they'd never do such effort. Their game is Twitter Impact.
@@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person the "modern audience" are too busy tweeting instead of gaming.
Complaining is a part of their entertainment
Fun side note: Out of the overall 7 regions, only 3 of them are "white" (Mondstadt, Fontaine, Snezhnaya; is not confirmed but is rumored to be russian influenced) and 4 of them are "colored" (Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, Natlan). Therefor, there is more "colored" cultural influence in the game + most of the VAs are POC too. Ong these ppl need a job
I hope Snezhnaya is full of brown people, just to see if you guys will stay true to "it doesn't matter race they are"
Snezhnaya is the Russia-inspired region and people from Snezhnaya are literally (one of ) the main villainous factions in the game. Not "whitewashed" but like actual bad guys. As a Russian, do I care? Of course not, because they are fricking COOL
@@silversparks2623"my moral compass when the bad guy got cool armor" ahh comment, jokes aside good shit you're not self centered
@@silversparks2623I love how you used the word cool, because the region's literally cool 💀
@@icecell They're straight-up chillin'
The people saying "I'm gonna boycott by being f2p" made me laugh way too much. Like bruh I don't think they know the definiton of boycott lmao. No actual principles at all.
They also fail to realize that it looks good for games to have a high playerbase, even if they don't spend money but the whale still fund the game while in the mist of a controversy, the player numbers remains to the same, why would the devs be concerned and want to make changes? 😂
Darn, I guess Ive been boycotting every single gatcha/mmo Ive ever played then.
One of the losers on another video told me I don't know what a boycott is LOL.
Like I'm sure a boycott would mean to shun the series entirely, including *not* playing it and reblogging fanart, just to show my displeasure.
"Going F2p" is still feeding the company, even if you're not paying. If they really wanted to hurt the game, then they should stop paying and stop playing... but they aren't ready for that conversation, now are they?
@@EndymionArchive those people's IQ are very low, that's why. They don't understand that even if they don't spend money, they're spending their time playing their game which is still very valuable to them. They still get to say that they have millions of players every single day, especially in the light of controversy playerbase didn't drop off because they're addicted. That's what they want and they will never change anything unless they don't play and vote with their wallets. Even then, whales funds gatcha games and they would have to upset a lot of people into not spending to make them consider doing anything differently. That probably won't happen because I'm sure this is just the vocal minority of miserable people who have first world problems and wants to be upset over something and won't affect hoyo into doing anything at all😂
@@EndymionArchivethey never ready for that conversation, they always trying to avoid or stutter to answer.
Apparently, "global" does not include pale people. I suppose that would matter if Natlan was a real place.
That's the thing. It's a fucking work of fiction. Wtf
Natlan is literally based of Latin America and Africa why can’t they make darker skinned characters?
I love the fact they care so much fictional group "right" but the moment it involve
real people like Japan in ac:shadow they were like "actually, let not pretend we starting care about it🤓"
Show how terminal online these people are
@@stxphaniee8255 Because Sumeru is based of them, not Natlan!
@@mixamasl ? Sumeru is based of Middle Eastern, Egypt and india I believe
Last I checked. "Insert color" washing occurs when the characters existed and subsequently had their skin colour changed.
But as far as I'm concerned, the Sumeru characters and Natlan characters aren't real
and has always been that skin color
And these are also the same people that make fun of Ga-Ming’s name and Yun Jin’s singing 😐
Why cant people just play games normally anymore.
@@pandoraarts7748 bcs entitled people make it worst.
because some folks grew up physically but not mentally.
"But...but...representation..."
@@thejamesonthestreet they forgot keyword "fiction".
We do. Thats why this shit doesnt work 😂
Average fatherless behaviour
parentless behavior
Abandoned in the woods behavior
@@viaxxl Nah, even feral children are much smarter than these troglodytes. At least they're able to survive on their own.
@@viaxxl foster care behavior; abandoned at birth
@@viaxxl Bro, even Hansel and Gretel wouldn't act like that
@@HayatoStarGod Not Hansel & Gretel. 💀
"Don't harass/threaten voice actors"
Okay, so criticizing them and calling them out for their unprofessional behavior and some even actively praising and encouraging blackwashing is fair game. Got it.
"unprofessional behavior" and it's them speaking up about and defending minorities' voices.. people like you are the reason colorist companies are allowed to do whatever they want unchecked.
no, you can criticize them just as said no harrasing, no death threats, no mass reporting, no mass hating, just critizicm
I do find the voice actors hypocrite and unprofessional on this matter (and that's a shame because some of them are also funny youtubers/streamers,and thus funny entertainers too, but after all this drama they completely lost my respect (not ALL of genshin VAs, but some of them yes)) but going from criticizing and pointing out their hypocricy to harrass them is also not a correct thing to do
Essentially the short answer is: criticizing them to point out stupid things they say is ok, but going to harrass them is NOT ok
From the moment they have to remind themselves that they should not harass VAs, they already lost
Fellas isn’t it kinda racist to be looking at someone’s skin color and making judgments based on said skin color
In Japanese and China people love the characters and look at the global trailer it has 322k vs 17k and on Twitter Japan all the characters pass the 100K do you think 61k signatures in twitter against 70 million players will make any difference? They have already marketed the characters and their official designs. Also, seeing the atmosphere of Natlan, it is similar to Latin America in the 2000s, where reggaeton and urbanity were popular, graffiti, tight clothing, football, pixels as mascots, you know that games like KOF 2002 were popular in Mexico. and Colombia and Argentina, Brasil...... SNK characters are attractive like Kyo and Iori or Angel she is white and mexican and sexy, Look at the music videos of Daddy Yankee or the Pitbull and Shakira and you will know what aesthetic Natlan's characters are inspired by.
Just fire all english voice actors. Done. Ai voice for English. Done.
Yeah, when I see the Natlan post on Twitter, JP have significantly more likes than global. Which is insane tbh
This game most likely made with asian preference in mind which is light skinned skin tone, which why whitening product is very popular in asia. So when people with fk up idiology coming to complain it will mostly useless.
>it is similar to latin america in the 2000s<
interesting to get an actual approximate timestamp for the region
@@Link117Warhammer40K Mexican here... I was already hyped because of all the references of prehispanic cultures but reading your comment opened my eyes even more and made me more hype... You're so damn right! Was a kid on those 2000's era but remember a lot all of that KOF recreatives hype, reggaeton, motorcycles... Holy shoot Natlan is amazing.
If you dont stop playing, it's not a boycot, it's a tantrum. Period.
They can't tell the different thats why they doesn't know different fiction and representative.
As a Chinese, if the Chinese government is going to react to this at all, it'd be ordering some news articles talking about how overly sensitive and self-centered foreigners are
You don't know shit, because an insensitive movie got changed after the Bolivian goverment complained to China. I take you are an American "Chinese" person.
哈哈哈哈哈新素材来咯～
Introducing this thing to the west was a mistake
sooo typical chinese, im a half chinese and already thinking what will those 营销号 and others react to foreigners XD
Yup, itll be a meme in the news making fun of western crybabies.
Teyvat has its own "laws". Even the game stated that
"Over a dozen Genshin Impact voice actors lose their job because of targeted harassment towards their employer"
More likely: they keep the job but Hoyo cuts their pay, and they'll like it or they'll accept the penalty for early termination of contract 😊
It would be hilarious if Mihoyo would go the same way as the Snowbreak devs and simply gets rid of the entire eng dub. 🤣
@@LibraritheWizardOfficialimagine being paid completely in primogems
Nah, to be clear, cut down their payment is also not a good move from the company. Even tho I agree they (some of the EN VAs) have been a bunch of stupids and umprofessionals, cut down their pay or firing them "only" because they took part on a dangerous but stupid racism accusation to the game they work on is also umprofessional from the company's side. However, I do agree that at least the company should speak with them to make up their minds and let them decide if continue to work for what they call a "racist company" or not.
Ah, sorry, I forgot the mention. I was responding to you@@LibraritheWizardOfficial
What's wrong with those people, if they don't like the colors in Genshin why they don't just leave and play something else? I like white skin color on anime characters and my colleague who is black in real life also likes white skin colored anime waifus. What is the problem? OMG. Kiddos.
Because you're only allowed to like things _they_ like, the existence of things that they don't like or people enjoying the things they don't like are taken as a personal slight.
The problem is that you assume that they are actually playing the game.
Most of them watched a few lore videos, at best, and now they are experts in fictional races.
@@Kiwi-Araga No, they still do play the game, majority of the whiners do. Despite the guarantee boycott failure as always, they'll still keep playing lmao.
@@Kiwi-Araga the playerbase stays the same, the money they make stays the same. These people are not stopping playing the game, notice how many of the post in the video would recommend you contact your local politician over simple voting with your wallet and not playing the game to try and be heard.
These people fail to understand that the Asian devs, in an Asian country would usually make characters to represent themselves, which is pale skin characters. They also fail to understand that anime characters usually tend to be pale skinned, but they call Asian people "white adjacent" on Twitter so it's "whitewashing" even though it's original characters that they've made.
Really makes you wonder how these are real functioning people in out society.
How many times has this happened? When will Genshin players just stop being scared of white people or skin (spoken by a light skinned black guy by the way,) and just PLAY THE DAMN GAME?
I assume they don't even play the game.
@@volkplushevy7722Bro I don’t even play the game either and this is hilarious to me, honestly these people might just convince me to play it and other Hoyoverse games, the fans who cry about this kinda shit do a much better job at marketing Hoyoverse games than Hoyoverse could ever hope to
Because it’s infested with Tumblr tier shippers and activists. People who’d rather spend their time harassing Asian artists off of twitter than just enjoying the game.
@@volkplushevy7722 100%
💯
A lot of western players seem to forget that Hoyoverse is a Chinese game company. It’s just that black/poc characters don’t sell well in the Chinese fan-base and don’t forget that China and Japan are the top spenders for Hoyoverse ;America being around third.
Another thing people tend to forget that the characters don’t exist. They are not real, they may be loosely based on real figures, but aren’t an exact 1 to 1 copy. Just because the people don’t get what they want doesn’t mean they should start review botting the game with 1 star reviews in hopes of getting what they desire. Hoyoverse can do whatever they see fit for their game and characters.
People are more concerned of the skin color of the characters they want to pull than the actual plot of the story and its development. 🤦
YOU SAID IT RIGHT!
I saw the chart of the most player per country, US is not event in top 20. Country like Myanmar is even higher than US, that just telling that they wouldn’t listen tp the loud minority who doesn’t even gave them money lmao
Yes, there are many Chinese and Japanese players. But if it was “just that” they wanted to cater towards them, they would not have put in the effort to represent so well, the people of mondstat and Fontaine! The truth is this. They like white skin! Also, many Chinese players were confused as well! Also just putting “American being around third” does not help your case. America is diverse. And many people across all cultures play this game. The characters and nations may not be real, but the blatant colorism is definitely real. This is why people are mad. And as a player, the people who actually GIVE Genshin their success, they have every right to be.
@@SecondTimesACharm-g4b no, they really don't have any right at all to be upset. Especially when they can't even see their obsession with race and racism. It isn't just that there are "many Chinese and Japanese players." Genshin Impact is a game made in Asia, FOR Asians. Even if every single player outside of Asia stopped playing Hoyoverse games, hoyo would continue to rake in tons of money. We are not the target audience. To behave like we have any rights at all to be pandered to is the epitome of American ignorance and arrogance. Especially since ya'lls have no problems when the reverse is happening and Asian culture is being black washed. So it's fine when Ubisoft attempts to alter real world history in a disrespectful way because they painted a black man as a hero, but you bully hoyo for not being inclusive enough. Get real. And Teyvat is a fantasy realm that is not beholden to its real world inspirations. You're right, they do like pale skin in Asia. But that isn't because of racism, or colorism. It's because of CLASSISM. Historically speaking, pale skin has been seen across many cultures as beautiful because it meant that you were wealthy enough to stay inside. Last, but not least, the majority of people complaining about Genshin do NOT, in fact, pay for the game in any way. If dark skinned characters sold well, then of course Hoyo would push dark skinned characters. They make what sells. And anyone who doesn't spend real world money on Genshin has literally ZERO right to make any kind of demands or have any kind of expectations. These people aren't really upset because Genshin is racist. They're claiming that Genshin is racist for attention. And that is unacceptable.
america isnt even 3rd they arent even in the top 10
Crying over fictional region and video game characters skin tones are the saddest things you can do. Classic twitter.
Nope, it's not classic Twitter. It's classic American. At least 9/10 of total population.
And since Twitter is also American it's their best outlet for BS.
@@exhaustive_the_sixth Absolutely right it's a massive bunch of idiots in the USA who don't even know what they are defending.
This are the same people that will call you racist for saying Cleopatra or Ana Bolena aren't black btw
Or if you say Erik the Red wasn't black.
or claim black vikings existed
Wrong. I think its odd to have dark skin people representing European characters and culture. I found it odd in the Thor movie that came out. But you say that is wrong, but when its other cultures, you are fine with it?
@@incaboo6876Cleopatra was a greek, and eqyptian pharoic dynasties have varied based on where the conquerors came, they have been of various shades.
But it is annoying when ones culture gets misrepresented, and in case of well reecorded historical characters, well it has been clearly demonstarted that if the character gets paler accusations of rascism pop up, but if they get darker all of a sudden that is good thing.
Blth sides have jackasses but as a northman, I get to say with what has been done to our gods and ancestors we get to retaliate and the other side does not get to complain about white shaka.
I don’t understand how you can whitewash a character that was never black to begin with. Also the characters in the trailer are darker than some of the other characters in Genshin. Natlan is based off Hispanic culture and the fact that people think all Hispanics have dark skin in kind of racist and stereotypical.
It is weird how these anti-colonialist and anti-racism activists are enthralled by a collective "white guilt" (even if shared by PoC) mixed with "white savior" (again, shared with PoC).
But if you understand Identitarism as an european and racist movement first and leftist second, then all starts to make sense.
It’s based off of East African and Hispanic culture, but I get your point
I think it's because some of the characters are based on actual people and deitys who are black. But idkkk
@@KonaPika my guy, Natlan is based off of Australia
@@ColoredJackpeople everywhere on and off twitter have said natlan is based around LATAM and Africa, cultures around the Ring of fire with Hawaiian/Māori names included… where did you find the source that said Natlan is based off of Australia?
weirdly enough boycotting while still playing the game is not effective, who would've thought
Being f2p and playing the game still profits hoyo 😭
Not comes free
Okay let's forget even the fictional part, why does no one protesting when disney is blackwashing every their movie adaptations?
They same people btw. Hypocrites isn't?
simple actually, these same people wouldn't acknowledge the existence of "blackwashing"
Because they're white liberalist.
Malcom x warned black Americans against this.
These are the same people that said Hades greek gods being race swap doesn't matter and it's fiction but when latin america based deity being race swap they scream. Like come on be consistent at list. If they don't care that european culture get race swap, I say we might as well do the same thing
They don't consider european culture to be culture. Just something everyone can use and deface, because it's from white colonisers.
*These people are Deranged.* 😟
That's a shame..
For wanting more POC characters?
I love how they have "don't speak over indiginous/affected people"
The affected people: We don't actually give a shit, our culture has more nuance than skin color, you know?
Boycotters: 😠💢
As someone from Latinamerica, the whole thing is absurd to me. The character's skin color seem fine to me.
I'm more bothered that we were promised a nation of war but instead are seemly getting some festival stuff.
Gonna play football instead of making human sacrifices to the sun gods. SMH
@@KuroKumo96there was nothing football related from trailers mostly the dragon Pokémon things and lots of rocks
@@LUCAS420BLZ it’s a joke lol by “football” I mean soccer or the ancient game where they kick the hard ball around with their bare feet
@@LUCAS420BLZ which trailer that you watch?...they literally passing balls like olympic
@@arifrage8181I probably forgot about it actually lmao but I mostly remember the trailers for the dragons and rocks
They tried to boycott Genshin in 2022 when Sumeru released, it failed.
Now they're trying to boycott Genshin again before Natlan has officially released, it will still fail.
They woke but forgot to wake up reality. Hahaha
Did I tell you the definition of insanity?
Also they tried to boycott Genshin over poor anniversary rewards. That failed too.
@@exhaustive_the_sixthinsanity is doing the exact same thing all over again expecting crap to change
-some guys in far cry 3
@@thonda92 I like that Vaas' monologue. Sounds better in (god forgive me) Russian and Italian.
the irony of them reporting for "hate"
Natlan has the environment, culture, clothing, architecture, mythology, food, and names of a real world region, but the people were inaccurately represented just because they don't like their skin color. This as bad as forced DEI where characters are race swapped for no real reason but just for the sake of diversity.
My government (in Puerto Rico) barely attends to important things. So, how would they take me seriously over this bs nonsense. I swear, those people need jobs or hobbies to get politics (politics, which I hate with my life) away from their minds. It's tiresome.
Their like 1 seat in US Congress doesn't even have any voting power and there is major Corruption problem with the Puerto Rican government being in bed with the phone and utilities companies. So as you say they aren't gonna give a damn
They forgot different game and government, also representative and fiction. I don't know how failed their education system there.
Himeko is a character that has been around in Honkai Impact and Honkai Star Rail. Characters from other Hoyogames appearing in Genshin is normal.
A boycott where less than 4% of the player base are involved, let alone lost, is not a boycott; it is just a sad attempt to remain relevant.
Heck, it isn't even disrupting the income for Hoyo, if anything it's boosting it due to the Streisand effect.
Ngl, as a Filipino, it's funny af to see these people more focused on a game than the West Philippine Sea harassment lmao
It shows just how much they don't really gaf about real issues.
Sumasang-ayon ako sa iyo. Ang Genshin Impact ay isang video game lamang.
"American F2P players boycott new region over skin color, new archon gets highest revenue of all characters so far"
The funny thing is its probably going to be true lol shes an archon and is hot
L M A O.
average american has -1 iq
This energy is nowhere to be found when it comes to Ubisoft and Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Did they replace every single Japanese with an African? Even Oda? Wow that really is just like this.
@@CampaignerSCDifference is hoyo never stated it to be historically accurate, but anime fiction on fictional places with anime artstyle, the other stated it to be historically accurate when it is not.
@@CampaignerSC you're too deep in the sauce clown. Learn to know the difference between fiction and historical.
"Don't speak over people who are indigenous/affected." Aren't they already doing that with this boycott, and telling what to do and not do?
The extreme left and these people are on that side. Is as fascist as the extreme right.
The extreme left wants to be super inclusive and in their fight for inclusion they become exclusive and racist. But they don’t realize that the way they do activism isn’t helping but rather hurts what ever good intentions they had.
The funniest thing is i saw real indigenouse people say they dont care about the skin color of genshin characters and twitter called them racist for it
@@beachbaal9060 Damn, I guess you're not part of that ethnic group if you say "i don't care".
Sounds pretty racist on Twitter's end, though. That just shows if they don't bend the knee, then they're not that race.
@@beachbaal9060 "elizabeth warren" natives don't count. Everyone I know is a bit annoyed, dissapointed that the region based on us is so lame.
@@incaboo6876 literally the only lame thing is that there isnt alot of skin variations, everythig else about te region looks sick, plus why would you be upset about a game
There is a human right to not being discriminated in real life, but not to representation in a video game, media or art. If you think that you're not represented, feel free to make your own game.
Bruh I don’t want to be represented 😂
@@rickybobby5153 I'm an old balding man, I feel represented enough by a hot female sorcerer in Skyrim.
This is like saying all “white” tone characters in anime are actually white people. It’s just the style and despite the stereotypes many Japanese do have lighter tone skin and that’s why so many can pull of anime cosplay so well. Taking aspects from different cultures then making a fictional setting with them isn’t whitewashing to begin with. It’s what authors had done for ages now
There's tons of people in Japan who have "white" skin. So it's irrelevant to police skin tones
After playing ZZZ and seeing Elfy and other characters in that game. I strongly think Hoyoverse don't put dark skinned characters simply because the anime style and shading system they use doesn't work very well with very dark skins.
"Dark skinned" in manga was rare also because it's a pain to shade them. And facial features were mostly just lines, which really doesn't show up well when the skin is dark. Now with the rise of digital manga and tools it's easier, and you start seeing more.
"WE LOVE THIS GAME. NOW LET'S RUIN IT."
Twitter needs to stop fermenting this dumbidity.
"To boycott means *to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest* ".
You heard that, people. You're not boycotting something when you're still USING that thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if they created a petition to change the meaning of boycott to:
"A boycott is the action of *'reducing the use of products or services of a company or government as a form of protest'* " 🤣🤣
This whole movement that is labeled as "boycott" is an insult to the real boycotts. Can't take them seriously with a bunch of "Go F2P my queen" posts but never "Go uninstall the effin game".
And no amount of stupidity will make local politicians take this movement seriously. Hell, they'll think it's still April with that 'joke'.
"B-b-b-but, my husbando's skin isn't right! This is serious! This gacha game doesn't do my husband justice!"
"Sir, you're contacting a local senator, not asylum service"
to the voice actors
the fact your not from teyvat means you are culturally damaging their reputation for not being representing them enough and must be replaced by authentic voices from the region.
America isnt the core audience so they wont care at all. Shouting into the void tbh.
lol, pretty sure China makes up half of hoyos income, they have some massive whales.. then I am pretty sure Asia is another large chunk of income aside from China xD
I guess it is the reason why Genshin is unaffected by all that American B.S.
因为我们是中国人
As someone who is actually Indigenous, we don't claim these people and we don't need them to white knight for us. I'll be pulling for as many of the Natlan characters as I can.
Fr bruh, like just cuz I’m indigenous doesn’t mean I’m brown or dark skinned.
As a brown person, wanting the Asian devs, in an Asian country, who makes characters to represent themselves and their people to look like me just because they've referenced some different cultures, without claiming to be 100% accurate is just ridiculous. Also anime characters tend to be pale skin and that's okay if they mostly are. It's anime characters for crying out loud, they're being made by Asian people who are pale skin people but then again, Twitter calls Asian people "white adjacent".
@@Veslelia_cw You need to watch more anime if you think they are incapable of making native characters that look native. Shaman King, Seven Cities of Gold, lots of good classic anime which are respectful.
They really lost the right to say "who cares about a fictional character's skin color" during discourse over raceswapping into a darker race.
This act against Genshin Impact is most likely a distraction drawing gamers' attention from Assassin's Creed Shadow. And that thousands of signatures are probably just dummy accounts. If Likes of a video can be paid and bought, why not these signatures?
most of those signatures are bots being used to inflate numbers, which is why petition sites can't be trusted.
I am all for more dark skin girls in genshin because more hot girls is never bad. This protest though will amount to nothing.
Deyha and xingyan are some of my favorite character designs. I'm also big nagatoro lover, but these people want the characters to be dark skinned because they reference culture without trying to be 100% accurate. Therefore, it's somehow whitewashing to these people and it's just so pathetic. Original character designs and personalities is now whitewashing 🤦🏽♂️
"we want more representation in a fictional cartoonish dream like setting that is based on nothing that actually exists"
wtf?
B-But but you don't understand, it references some African cultures to add a theme to their fictional setting. So it MUST include dark skinned characters to go along with it, otherwise that's "whitewashing" and "culture appropriation".
These are real people in our society btw.
It's based on cultures around the world
"Nothing that actually exists" Natlan = Aztlan, name of the Aztec homeland. The names of the characters come from an Inca god, a Hopi god, an Aztec god, a Mayan god, a Nigerian god. How would you feel if they announced Nalhala, with Thor as a character, then reveal a black woman named Thor.
@@incaboo6876 "d. How would you feel if they announced Nalhala, with Thor as a character, then reveal a black woman named Thor."
hasnt the west done that already? Isnt the viking show about a black woman and then of course you got black woman in hades 2 which is in greek setting. Hell overwatch 2 does not even have a greek character to go with the map.
@@Veslelia_cw not one of these people has anything to say about the vikings show having a black woman leader, the hades 2 having a black woman when its set in ancient greek mythology and the new asscreed game.
as a part of the genshin community, I can confirm that the ones whining about Natlan, aren't ACTUALLY a part of the community.
They toxic community
These people need to realized that it’s a fictional game. Of a fictional region. Genshin isn’t real life. It has inspiration from real countries and stuff, but this is literally a world filled with magic, gods and bullshit other things.
Call your local politician will never not be funny to me. Wtf are they going to do? It’s a Chinese company, they’re not gonna do shit unless it pertains the attention of the Chinese government, and what they’re doing isn’t against any law. The characters in Natlan is their property, they can do whatever the heck they want with them as long it doesn’t cross the law in China.
How would you feel if they made a fictional world about us slavery but race swap black people for whites? And if anyone ever said anything just hide behind "it's a fictional story bro. With liberties taken from the real world".
Twitter people: Why are they white when my head cannon is that every new character needs to be black
Any sane person: These new characters look really good, and they are quite cute
Sane people: anime characters usually are pale skin, especially when made by Asian devs, in Asian countries. They're making characters that represents themselves, so they aren't obligated to make the characters dark skinned just because they've referenced some different cultures for a FICTIONAL setting.
To counter the boycott/review bomb:
- Rate the game 5 stars
- Downvote and flag all the 1 star reviews involved in the review bomb
>rate genshit 5 stars
This is an op
u reallty think all 1000 wokies that actually play the game would matter in the grand scheme of reviews?
Now now, I am not rating Genshin 5 stars, fuck that. Hoyo can deal with these people themselves, they get boycotted every month, it is fine.
Why should u counter it? Just leave it
The worst enemies of american woke twitter users, are the cultures they ought to defend XD
Basically most of latin community think this boycott is BS and are happy with the cultural references and music of the region.
And at the same time... Japanese audience is destroying the new Assassin Creed game, double K.O. for woke community.
So woke feel entitled but they lose everthing. Hahaha. They just people doesnt learn any education, ony about gender.
Sounds akin to the whole Hogwarts Legacy boycott thing. Where that game absolutely crushed sales.
I think the only thing worse than all the harassment over this is the fact that the internet is so braindead they believe Yasuke is an Ubisoft original character meant entirely for inserting diversity into a game set in Japan, when in fact one of the things Japanese hate the most is how a historical character that is actually loved was changed from a retainer of Nobunaga to be a samurai that goes around in full armor killing farmers.
Let me repeat. The internet is so braindead and Ubi fucked up their own necessity to find a diverse character among Japan so bad that people think Yasuke is just an Ubi OC now
Was he even "loved"? From what I've seen from the japanese, they mostly don't know or care about Yasuke. Dude's literally a historical footnote and got fanfic-ed by a white guy.
no one on the interest believe yasuke is made up. everyone complain about it because yasuke is not a samurai.