That part of the trailer was giving me this vibe:

I wonder if this means they’re working on a Pokemon game where the battle mechanics are more real time than turn based.

In addition to that, the music video featured a fairly realistic looking depiction of Swift in bed with Kanye.

and if one of the most successful, powerful entertainers in the world can claim to have been “canceled” without any viable proof

And everyone who plays it will have forgotten about it by next year.

This article specifically pointed to a Thai character who could have been given the skin in question.

Yeah it’s telling that he came in to a conversation about appropriation of Asian culture and was like "ALSO I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO BLACKFACE!"

Man you really wanna wear blackface.

“the design team only knows how to make costumes for slender white ladies" isn't the defense you think it is.

Exactly. Blackface has a long racist past, and a specifically racist past.

I find it fascinating that progressive people in favour of representing other people’s cultures find it offensive when the “wrong” character attempts to showcase said culture.

At this point it seems more like putting Mercy in traditionally Asian costumes is someone’s fetish on the design team.

but they’re okay with the misogynistic boob armor on a fighting hero?

Changing the color of your skin isn’t inherently racist yet people act like it is.

She was a producer, the star, and had agreed to take a cut of the profits rather than a one-time payment. She absolutely had a say and a TON of stake in its success.

They tried it with Saw/Paw Patrol and it failed. It hasn’t been attempted since.

It was a one-way street. Barbenheimer was primarily Barbie fans who also were interested in Oppenheimer. The most diehard of Nolan-stans had no interest in Barbie and were absolutely dicks about the whole thing.

Hi, I work in tech and am watching my friends and coworkers lose their jobs to AI. Go fuck your entire self.

The biggest “problem” of all, of course, was having to pay people to do it.

“We must hold women accountable for the shitty behavior of even the most tangentially associated men.”