So to give some context to this, Grand Theft Auto V has a popular roleplaying server called NoPixel, populated by streamers and other players who roleplay different characters.
A Black character named Mike Block is played by a Twitch streamer named Penta who is white. The in-game character is usually a chaos character doing crime, calling everyone "dawg" and is kind of portrayed as a stereotypical gangster like character. They're well known on the server for their excessive crime which includes kidnapping, robbing, murdering and everything in between.
Last night a character in the game named Malcolm who is played by Twitch streamer adamvision was shot in the head by Mike Block, and Malcolm went on to call out the character in RP, by saying "his makeup is running" and "he's not really Black".
There's been conversations in the past about playing someone different to your race in roleplay, and I can understand why someone playing a stereotypical Black criminal calling everyone "dawg" is problematic if you're white.
Here are the clips from both perspectives.
Penta, the white dude playing the Black character logged off not long after and reported the other streamer to get them banned for bringing up he's not really Black in roleplay. While doing this his chat went on to call adamvision a SJW, cringe and virtue signaller for calling it out.
You can click 'Watch Full Video' on the clips above to see the streamers talk about it more.
Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPClipsGTA/comments/nxwnyc/weird_random_shouts_out_mikes_secret/
Dexerto article: https://www.dexerto.com/gta/xqc-def...r-being-accused-of-digital-blackface-1593575/
This was pretty crazy to see brought up in-game in the roleplay, I've seen streamers talk about white people playing Black characters and calling it bad on their streams but never in the game like this. Unfortunately, stereotypical criminals using accents is pretty prevalent in RP.
A Black character named Mike Block is played by a Twitch streamer named Penta who is white. The in-game character is usually a chaos character doing crime, calling everyone "dawg" and is kind of portrayed as a stereotypical gangster like character. They're well known on the server for their excessive crime which includes kidnapping, robbing, murdering and everything in between.
Last night a character in the game named Malcolm who is played by Twitch streamer adamvision was shot in the head by Mike Block, and Malcolm went on to call out the character in RP, by saying "his makeup is running" and "he's not really Black".
There's been conversations in the past about playing someone different to your race in roleplay, and I can understand why someone playing a stereotypical Black criminal calling everyone "dawg" is problematic if you're white.
Here are the clips from both perspectives.
Penta, the white dude playing the Black character logged off not long after and reported the other streamer to get them banned for bringing up he's not really Black in roleplay. While doing this his chat went on to call adamvision a SJW, cringe and virtue signaller for calling it out.
You can click 'Watch Full Video' on the clips above to see the streamers talk about it more.
Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPClipsGTA/comments/nxwnyc/weird_random_shouts_out_mikes_secret/
Dexerto article: https://www.dexerto.com/gta/xqc-def...r-being-accused-of-digital-blackface-1593575/
This was pretty crazy to see brought up in-game in the roleplay, I've seen streamers talk about white people playing Black characters and calling it bad on their streams but never in the game like this. Unfortunately, stereotypical criminals using accents is pretty prevalent in RP.
