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I despise the double standard, too. And, yes, before anyone says it, I know, they don't have standards, it's just a jihad. But I can still be frustrated...it's an abomination to them if a white person voices a nonwhite animated character, even though this is always played straight. It's not "whitewashed" or anything, that actor was just determined to be the best, but the character is still nonwhite. But that's still terrible and racist to these fucks.
Meanwhile, they'll gleefully replace white characters with nonwhites, while bragging about it. It's so much worse than any of this mundane shit they whine about when it goes in the other direction. Fuck these people. In theory, and if it weren't Current Year, I'd have no problem with a nonwhite human voicing a white cartoon...who the fuck cares? But it's not done in good faith, and they hate me, so fuck 'em. Fucking cultural barbarians.
When I have actually pointed out these double standards on forums or comment sections it’s like they have an infinite amount of excuses for why a white person can’t voice a non white character or why Victorian England has to look like NYC but doing a Shaka Zulu mini series with a bunch of white people playing Zulu warriors is outrageous
So long as their trans people in wheelchairs it will be ok.
Sadly that is becoming less and less satire
If they invaded a mall, how would it be different from Day of the Dead?
I can at least take solace in the fact that 99% of these types of works fail, are forgotten by the common perception in exchange for the version we all prefer, and they still aren't capable of actually taking the originals away from us yet.
That last part is important. Because so much of the media relies on FOMO, and the fact that people feel compelled to consume shit even if they don't want to.
But there is zero reason to ever even interact with this types of works, as we can simply re-consume the original that we cared about again and again indefinitely. No franchise needs to continue forever anyway, so we can just pretend it didn't.
Doesn't solve the issue from the top of them doing it, but very little of what we say or do would effect that anyway. That's something that will need to fizzle out on its own due to changes elsewhere in the culture.
It's especially easy with movies and reboots and stuff. When a currently running series gets worse and worse, it can be hard to give up on it, even if it's terrible. When they release new content after a break, it's easy to distance it from the original, since it is literally separate.
Star Wars being a good example. There's a huge difference between the original trilogy, the prequels, and the sequels. You can take or leave whichever you want, really. I saw the way the sequels were going, and never even watched past the first one. Don't feel like I missed out at all.
Exactly, and I think people need to learn that "skill" early on. Or they end up like a lot of the "Fandom Menace" who are so obsessed with Star Wars they still cannot let go how bad the sequels were, even as it clearly effects their health.
Its not even a woke thing. I fucking loved the Chronicles of Riddick movies (both 1 and 2 for different reasons), saw where the 3 was going and just didn't bother with it.