I gotta say, it would be deeply funny if Microsoft had to walk back its terrible merger celebration video

Popularity is closer to net worth than any other actual metric imo. Sure the people who are into Avatar are in average *less* into Avatar than the people into ATLA are into ATLA but I don’t think that bridges the insane gap in popularity. ATLA had a cult following that steadily grew into actual mainstream popularity…

100% - also these whiny dorks don’t even bother researching the history of the things they get upset about (example: calling white people with dreadlocks or box braids/cornrows ‘culture vultures’). By that same standard every black woman that has straightened her hair is also ‘appropriating’ those with naturally…

Deadspin, Kotaku’s sister site, just put out this article recently:
deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-18510489

Dude, the very first sentence of this thread brought up the issue of black face: “Americans use the terms “cultural appropriation” and even “black face” so incorrectly they’ve completely lost all meaning.” After that somebody responded to them saying, “I’m a little confused about “black face”” After all of that…

Wow this is racist. People calling out Mercy about cultural appropriation while Lifeweaver gets a free pass because he’s Thai?

I get the frustration with Mercy getting a ton of LNY skins, but it’s because her character’s model is the easiest to adapt to a lot of concepts. The other Asian characters, not so much. 

I am Chinese and I am absolutely fine with Mercy in a dress typically worn for the lunar new year. Wear a Chinese dress, make mooncakes for your coworkers for the autumn festival, whatever your skin color or blood line, as long as they are done tastefully and in appreciation for the cultural occasion you choose to…

I think part of the problem with the people complaining about this is either;

1. As you stated they are white knights championing a cause that isn’t theirs and lacking the perspective to do so.

2. People who take the game out of context and treat these characters like they are their own persons. I think we would be…

You’re opinion and voice as a Chinese-American will be drowned out by idiots with nothing better to do then attempt to complain on your behalf, instead of actually asking you what you think on the matter. I’m sure there are Chinese-Americans that aren’t cool with this, but they too will be drowned out by idiots…

Idk, I have seen multiple people claim on multiple occasions that a white person should never post a reaction gif featuring a black person because that would be digital blackface

At this point, these criticisms are just noise. No matter what you do, you’re going to offend someone. If the skins had been kept culturally matched with characters, people would be bitching about characters being pigeonholed with their nationality.

This is such a terminally online take. The notion of bottling up each individual culture such that everyone stays in their respective lanes and culture can only be expressed or shared if someone has the exact same skin tone and nation-state lineage as you is so fucking backwards.

If people have issues with the…

I posted this elsewhere, but as a Chinese American I’m glad Mercy can wear this. I used to play Overwatch and mained Phara, Roadhog & Symmetra. I didn’t like Mei’s toolkit so I didn’t play her. But as Chinese I loved having Chinese skins available to my other characters so I could see myself represented in how I…

Exactly, I posted similar - I’m Chinese and I like to see the character I’m playing reflect that.  I don’t like Mei’s toolkit so I’m not going to just play her in order to reflect my ethnicity.  So I enjoy it when the characters I DO like playing can reflect my identity.

Have any of these people stopped to consider that maybe it’s not the character but the player that is wearing it? I don’t play Overwatch anymore but as a Chinese American I liked having all my characters (Pharah, Roadhog & Symmetra) wearing Chinese garb because I am in fact Chinese.  Should I only have to play Mei…

Calling this “cultural appropriation” seems like a massive stretch to me, and I’m liberal as all hell. You might as well say any white person cosplaying a character from Naruto, Demon Slayer, and Jujutsu Kaisen is guilty of cultural appropriation. Doesn’t that sound utterly stupid?

My favorite Ashe skin is Year of the Tiger’s Huntress because she has black hair just like me.

I don't know the writer of this article but Kenneth Shepard doesn't seem like a terribly Asian name to me. Are any Asian people actually upset? If they are let's talk about that but lets cut it out with the offended on others behalf bullshit.

Articles like this scream for a dislike button.