They're not stuck. They're intentionally trying to muddy the waters so these companies don't have to acknowledge/pay these black artists. Best thing they can do from here on out? Copyright their shit. If these developers want to make money off something they had nothing do with, take em to court. Simple as that.
Because the pictures I've seen of Epic Games staff has only had white people
Did Michael give credit to the creator of the moonwalk? Serious question. Was it called the moonwalk before he did it?
Good shit. Hopefully these other guys that have popular dances do the same & even start suing.
Whats the last Japanese game made with a white protaganist? Dont worry, I'll wait.
Little white kids??? Fortnite is popular worldwide! If you think only or mostly "little white kids" play this game I think you're the one living under a bubble. Era's gonna Era to oblivion on this topic, Jesus.
Lol what a response.
Metal Gear Solid? Binary Domain? Silent Hill? Resident Evil?
I was specifically talking about your example in the US here, where that did happen. Italian and Irish culture is alive and well, German is not. Maybe erasure is too strong of a word, but you see the difference, right?
The example doesn't really matter. You don't care about this one, but someone else might, that's not the point.
Zelda. Mario. Xenoblade chronicles 2. I mean the list kind of doesn't end.
This is the main problem. You'll never really know where they came from. Who really started it. Who should Epic believe created the dances? The original creators would probably get more robbed then the famous artists that actually popularized them. They could of came from a damn homeless person for all we know.
Yes, I don't disagree that what you are saying is happening, but what I'm saying is that Fortnite is not doing anything directly to acknowledge where the dances come from or where they were first popularized. If you want to find the connection you have to search yourself from other sources.
The OP may not feel that they can speak for other cultures. Some cultures are fine with and encourage other cultures to appropriate aspects of their culture, especially if it's done respectfully and acknowledges the origins in some way. Some cultures are incredibly insular and don't want any appropriation at all. Individuals from a single culture may feel differently on this subject (you can see this in this very thread).
This is shown to be false in the first couple of pages of this thread.
I'm not sure how you measure that. What part of German culture is "dead" in the US?
But it shows that the origin is still easily available - if you wanna know - and that it doesn't matter who popularized it, the origin is still there.
Even if you start your post with "forgive my ignorance"... holy shit, I want to hope you're joking or trolling.
That's way too off-topic, but I can give you links atleast
Definitely a serious question and thanks to everyone who listed recent games starring white men. Thats my point. The industry is white. Even japanese people are making games with white men. When was the last black protaganist game they made? I'll wait again.
Gonna be hard to tell when you're being serious if you end your questions the same regardless.
Yeah this is all kinds of nuts. A pretty enormous portion of the gaming audience is non white.
This is about Fortnite dances somehow being black culture erasure and to that I (and many here) say no, it's not. And I've explained why.
They also make a ton of games starring Japanese people. If your point was that the game industry lacks representation for black folks then you could've just said that. What you said was that the entirety of industry is white, which is inaccurate.
