Quick ! Someone draw both of them kissing !
My thoughts exactly, make love not war :DD
Fake outrage, Rockstar didn’t make a change, one loser fan did this edit because he is racist.
Is he racist, or just a blondophile? I find certain qualities in a woman attractive, if one of those qualities was curly hair, would I be racist towards east Asians who have straight hair? I mean, if the dude posted “this woman is ugly and unattractive cause she is dark skinned” then yeah, racist. But… “I’d prefer her as a blonde”, is that racist?
I’m going to assume, against reason, thwt this comment is not made in bad faith.
The racism is in the action and the intention. You can jork to whoever you like but going out of your way to replace depictions you don’t like is weird. This isn’t a case of some guy making a pin-up of a woman he finds attractive. It isn’t a remix: the edit has the same clothes (what little there are) and the same tattoos. So the statement is “I want this same person but I want them white.”
Even replacing the ethnicity with an entirely new character would be weird, but the direct ethnicity edit cannot be anything but offensive in intention.
The world of (Western) representation has been overwhelming White. Racism isn’t just prejudice: it is prejudice that is empowered and entrenched by systems, both legal and cultural. The removal of a non-white character to instead endorse yet another white model (whose features are inline with the archetypal Aryan of White supremacist fascination, e.g., blonde, straight-haired and blue-eyed) is a minor salve to a system that is being stressed by a slow cultural push towards equal representation. And, yes, a sexy lady with dark skin for a video game can be representation but I don’t have the will now to get into the “why.”
Nobody said they did? Racists are mad about there is many just search on X, Facebook or even parts of reddit and changed it themselves saying this is better and not “woke” nobody ever claimed rockstar changed did so where is the “fake” outrage.
ah, that explains why the color composition is so much worse. the girl on the left really pops while the one on the right fades into the background.
Without knowing any of the context, I assumed “they” meant the game developers. It’s definitely open to interpretation that way.
Okay I guess not really though i dont think but apparently with your upvotes it can be it just literally says “fans” disliked it so much they decided to change it. Seems to me to be clearly centering these “fans” as the plural group acting. Apparently not though.
Who is “they”?
One lonely racist with an image generator?
“A few weirdos on the Internet used Photoshop, so now we’re ragebaiting it for engagement to make a few pennies on X.”
No racism is not okay and it was more than a few i still lurk on reddit and the “gamergate” crowd hate the original and claim the game has gone “woke” so there is actual racism to be confronted.
Feels a bit of a weird take… One of the most liked, shared etc video game trailers of all time which is also the least white but because some percentage of people are goofs, gamers as a whole are evil?
It’d be like saying all the fediverse is tankie crazies because .ml exists.
I get we like our pitchforks and any attempt to villainize folks but this feels pretty thin.
Awful lot of incels welcome in every gaming community.
usually the crowd addressed as gamers in these things is the vocal racist and sexist and homophobic loud minority, the ones that still keep the spirit of gamergate going. obviously the text just mentions gamers, but sometimes you can be a bit charitable.
People who don’t game basically only see that part because they’re the ones getting their knickers in a twist and having public outbursts over ridiculous shit all the time. I think many refrain from gaming just because of that.
It is racist, but I like both tho :3
Original is better
I mean both look, how can i say this, extremely thirst trappy but the face is much better on the original. Also my brain is strange(and also its very hard to talk about this because it involves skin colour) so for me general european/north american white skin is kinda neutral but the edited picture has her at like finnish level whiteness which kinda can work as a plus point. But this is ignoring how fucking deranged this is.
Both had good artists. The original evoqued feelings of thirst, as intended. The revision evoqued feelings of racism, as intended.
The original post seems like pure bait to me.
After the Campaign Evolved shit that turned out to be a genuine ragehead and not bait, I really cant tell the difference anymore.
I don’t know if people are reading this correctly.
Rockstar did not change the race of the cover-girl. It was the racist ‘fans’ who fed the image through AI and gave her the Michael Jackson experience.
A lot of people getting angry at a company that (in this very specific case) did nothing wrong.
You see, it’s actually about ethics in games journalism.
I don’t know why anyone trusts anyone or anything that still posts on Twitter in 2026…
I don’t know how to find a place where I don’t have to be exposed to the shit they produce over there.
Hmmm looked around a bit online and I couldn’t find this edited image or any comment about Rockstar changing the cover art from the left to the right. I’m wondering if this is even real, or am I missing a joke? If it is real it’s silly but if it’s not it’s just fake outrage.
The post says that fans made the change, likely meaning this is hard to find
So, in other words, possibly one person did this and now we all should be bigly mad about it?
It’s a moral panic.
Look at gamergate forums or on x and they are thousands of people mad about rockstar going “woke” so no its not a “moral panic”. Hate people in this thread pretending racism doesn’t exist because their bubbles are successfully purged of it that’s good but the racism is still there and say your low tech friend who games causally and uses x or facebook or reddit will see it.
Do you have any earthly idea how many of those “people” are bots now? Let yourself get worked-up by engagement-bait if you insist, but no-one-else is obligated to check-out places that are well-known for being places one goes to piss-off others or find something to get pissed-off about. Your “hobby” of engaging with and spreading it without substantiation vs reality doesn’t make you “more aware”, it just makes you part of the problem.
Okay then don’t downplay existing racism because you successfully avoid it. That’s helping no one end racism.
You’re literally promoting specific fan-art, spreading it far beyond what it ever would have reached otherwise, in your efforts to “end” racism. If anyone’s watering down existing racism, its you and people who act as you do.
Oh, I follow now. The way I read it initially it was that fans were mad about it and they got it changed, not that they made it themselves. Thanks for the clarification!
Fuck racism. But why the fuck are you posting a piece of shit produced by some scum denying the right to live to a group of people based on their hobby?
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This is humorous post. This is not to be taken seriously
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Gamers usually doesn’t just mean someone that likes to play video games, but the specific toxic subset. At least that how most people use in my experience
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