Holding some random comment to the same standards as a formally published article is kind of a dick move.

The woman is kind of a class act. I feel for her, and appreciate how rationally she has reacted to a sucky personal/financial situation she got into. The internet has no shortage of irrational freakout artists, but she took it on the chin and is turning toward the future. An actual adult on TikTok, who’d have thunk it

I don’t know about “desperation,” but considering the context of the PS4 joke it’s referencing, and how short of the mark the joke falls, it makes them look pretty silly.  If you can’t respond to a clever burn with an even more clever burn, then you’re just dunking on yourself.  

speaking of cringe

Whether you agree or not, he explains the reaction pretty clearly in the article.

I mean... people not listening to minorities sounds like exactly what I was saying? It takes two to find common ground - if one side doesn’t make an effort, nothing is achieved.

On the flipside, as long as you can find ONE Hispanic person who IS bothered by this, it instantly and permanently is indefensible and evil!

I think the question is, how do you make Hispanic icons that cater to all Hispanics equally (and not just Mexicans for example)?

Also: If they had only included one icon, like a sombrero, yeah maybe I’d call bullshit. They included the sombrero, maracas (often associated with the Caribbean, and arguably came from Puerto Rico), and what I saw as just a plain ol’ guitar, used pretty much ubiquitously in Spanish and Latin American music. Seems…

Peruvian here. Totally agree. Would it be cool to see a chullo or something? Maybe, sure, I guess. Does the fact that there isn’t one make me feel like my culture was erased or ignored, or I’m being bucketed in with another culture? Nah, not at all, even though 99% of the people that I speak to in in the US have…

That’s kinda my point though. Are non-hispanic communities really familiar enough with them to use them as an emote and be identifiable as hispanic? A cultural touchstone has to pass that test and I’m not convinced that papel picados will pass outside the southwest US. Introduce them alongside the old to start getting…

There’s a difference between “I don’t like this and wish it was different” and “this is a problem and needs to be changed”. Way too many people don't seem to know what the difference is.

As an Ecuadorian and one who completely understands you when you say your culture is erased, I got to say that calling this offensive is a bit much.

I mean these emotes are fine, the problem is not the emotes themselves but the lack of more diverse emotes. That is not offensive, that is twitch being lazy and stupid,…

Then ask for more Puerto Rican representation then? Put it out there or give more ideas?

What exactly offends you? Or why?

Looks like we’re hitting the double-edge of trying to give different cultures representation but at the same time trying to stamp out any semblance of stereotypes being acceptable. How do you celebrate a culture while disapproving of the things that the general public know of as representative items of those cultures?…

I’d bet that a lot of the “outrage” came from people not of that culture who are “outraged on behalf of them”.

They use the colonizer term “Latinx” cause it sound better to white ears than the Spanish “Latino.” So I doubt they care about Hispanic takes. 

No. Someone was offended on behalf of you. God people are fucking stupid.

As a Hispanic person (though not Mexican), please let me say - those emotes are totally, totally fine.