It’s not particularly helped by the way anime and manga tend to simplify facial features.

Well, there’s been criticism of white people assuming that anime characters are white-coded even though Japanese people still interpret them as being Japanese, right?

...the irony being that if you go too white in albinism, most cultures no longer “prefer” that, but instead react badly again.

Well I mean technically he IS.

Genshin has made billions of dollars a year for them since its release, so as far as they’re concerned the international response has been incredibly positive.

It’s less “White People” and more “Pale Skin” preference. Colorism is a huge problem globally in virtually every culture. Light Skin Asians are “prefered” over Dark Skin Asians. Lighter skinned Africans are prefered over Darker skinned Africans. Neither are “white” in the American definition, but the prejudice against…

That’s assuming that it’s a blind spot, and not an intentional part of the message.

It’s a mainland Chinese company full of mainland Chinese devs. I can guarantee they are not fans of any skin darker than beige. Even if it’s their own.

They’re also not particularly non-white. The closest people today would be Iranians and Iraqis, particularly the latter.

While I was one that figured Sumeru was referring to the Sumer region, and thus expecting more Mesopotamia rather than Egypt... it’s not like the people of Sumer were particularly “white” either.

Fuck fraudulent takedown claims and fuck YouTube for protecting the assholes who file them while making it an absolute pain in the ass for creators to fight back against them.

No.

Not at all similar situations.  Nintendo owns their property and they request stuff be taken down.  This is someone pretending to be Bungie requesting Bungie property be taken down.

I think you have it the other way around. This isn’t the people affected suing Bungie. This is Bungie suing the person who impersonated them and made those takedowns.

for the giant multimillion dollar corporation

I mean, have sympathy for the small content creators who were the main ones getting struck by this asshole in his bid to stir up a boogeyman for his own benefit.

Unlikely this will result in any change since YouTube isn’t a party to the suit.

I think you’re failing to distinguish between value and value proposition.

Right, there’s a huge difference in “there’s nothing on Gamepass/Netflix” to “There’s nothing that I want to play/watch on Gamepass/Netflix”.

It’s like people who complain there’s nothing on Netflix because nothing in the new releases catches their eye.