• wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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    9 months ago

    Its fascinating that you can change age, gender, class, job, good vs evil, city, power origin, family, parents, backstory, goals, romantic relationship, friends, enemies, powers, on and on and thats all fun new twists on the character to revitalize the story.

    But race? Woooaaah buddy, slow down! Thats too far!

    Its fuckin transparent, is what it is

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      So, yeah, theres a lot of people that dont like it for racist reasons, but what makes it stick out for the non racist reasons when the other changes might not immediately is that its the most likely category for when the intention is pandering. It CAN be done well, but it often is done at the behest of sales/pr board

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        So are all the other changes I listed. All changes are done to shake up the story to bolster new sales. Thats the whole point of changing the story at all.

        Pandering is a limp dick excuse for the real reason this change is “too far” of a change when literally any and every other possible change is no big deal.

        Its just racist shit hiding behind a mask of dripping wet newspaper.

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          Dude, one of the most egregious things a piece of media can do is bore you. Bad can be funny, angry can make you think, fun and happy dont need to be explained why we’d want to watch that, but boring just wastes our time. Media that’s been overly focus grouped has the highest likelihood of being bland as shit. Like I said, YES, a LOT of the race swap hatred comes from racism, but it also acts as a signal for people who dislike boring media that it might be a focus group tested waste of our time.

          edit Tldr: If its race swapping thats the problem itself? Yeah, likely racist. But race swapping is also a red flag for people that their actual problem with media, bland and focus group wastes of time, is present in said piece of media

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            9 months ago

            Dude, focus groups? 6 slightly different spider-mans are not boring as long as he stays white but change his race and that’s the bland as shit part?

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              I havent watched a spiderman I didnt like? Well, maybe the 3rd movie of the Toby Maguire run. Red flags are just flags at the end of the day and can end up being wrong. I didnt say a race swap guaranteed a bland piece of entertainment, just that it can signal one. Also, Miles Morales isnt a race swap, he’s an entirely new character, and I actually prefer him to Peter Parker

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                It can signal one just like all the other little changes they make when rehashing a character right? Those changes are just as big of red flags right? They get the same out cry right? Cause if they didn’t, well that would seem like a red flag of it’s own.

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                  Bud, just because some people using it as a red flag are racist, doesnt mean ALL people who are… are. Theres no denying that racist people care more about this red flag than the others, which all arent the same degree of red flag I might add. I’m merely pointing out that theres non racist reasons to be wary of a race swap

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                    Which doesn’t seem like a very helpful point. We all have figured out it’s a mixed bag. The more interesting question might be what’s the mix? Just because a handful of them are using race swap as a lazy filter for what they presume to be bland media we gotta handle the rest with kid gloves just in case?