I’m looking forward to 10 year old White boys doing this in broad daylight, and seeing Twitter flip their shit 🍿

  • lewdian69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    17 days ago

    It hasn’t been a notorious gang sign since the early 2000s. It was already main stream with white kids doing it over 20 years ago.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    50·
    17 days ago

    Could you elaborate on the Tencent part? I understand they have a large stake, but why is it their collab and not Epic’s?

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    47·
    17 days ago

    I see OP in their comment history uses “tyres” so they’re probably not from the US.

    C-Walking has been a prominent fad in the US, more so in the early 2000s than recently, but most people are familiar with it.

    I don’t understand the context of this post, but there’s not much here of note if you grew up in the US and made it past late teenager.

    At this point, Snoop is inevitable.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    283·
    17 days ago

    Lol, it’s a freakin’ “dance step”. “Notorious gang sign”, only to the tiny world of gang morons. The rest of us 350 million in the US, and the other 4 billion outside the US have no idea.

    Tempest in a teapot.

  • Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    17 days ago

    Personally I don’t see the big deal. Seems more like a pop culture thing.

    What I would really like to see is a Winnie the Pooh emote/walk.

    • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      17 days ago

      I believe the objection is not to Snoop for his gang affiliation, but rather to the dance specifically which is being claimed as a more overt gang symbol, sort of like if they added the blood hand sign.

      Of course I don’t think this is even remotely an issue of concern for most of the reasons others have already commented on this post (it’s a pop culture thing now, essentially), but I do think it’s worth acknowledging the distinction between person and symbol here to be able to have honest discussion of the topic.

      • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        I mean I think I understand the argument for your distinction. I don’t play either games, I just watched VFX artists reaction and saw Snoop Dogg in it so I was wondering why it’s such a big deal with Tencent. As he does seem to “dance” in CoD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhPvXhXoUM.

        I may take slight issue with your last statement. To be clear, I’m not trying to have a “dishonest discussion”, I genuinely don’t understand the distinction and there isn’t really an article or anything here for me to clarify.

        Thanks for your reply on it though it does clarify a bit more to me.

        • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          17 days ago

          I may take slight issue with your last statement. To be clear, I’m not trying to have a “dishonest discussion”, I genuinely don’t understand the distinction and there isn’t really an article or anything here for me to clarify.

          I apologize, I sincerely wasn’t trying to imply you were being willfully dishonest or disingenuous, I was just trying to offer the correction to ensure clarity. I promise, I intended no offense and did not mean to imply anything about your character. I hope this clears that up and am legitimately sorry if you felt wronged.

          • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
            9·
            17 days ago

            lol, it’s alright, it’s cold communication on the Internet. I also genuinely thank you for both replies!

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      17 days ago

      Yes but a big difference is Call of Duty is an M rated video game whereas Fortnite is rated T. Fortnite doesn’t feature blood, death, or swearing. Does it matter that the same kids probably play both? That’s for the parents to decide

      • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        17 days ago

        Of course Fortnite features death, we aren’t showering other players with love.

        • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          17 days ago

          Epic’s official language for the game never features death. Characters are eliminated, you can meet the god of the underworld, but no character ever actually dies. Apparently the ESRB says it’s ok

          • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            17 days ago

            The language doesn’t matter, you are still reducing people’s health by shooting them, until their health reaches 0 and they cease to exist. Thus, it is death.

      • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        The point of the game is to shoot people with actual guns until you’re the only person (or team) left. Is the word “kill” really where ESRB draws the line?? (not that I think fortnite should be rated R)

        • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          17 days ago

          I imagine Epic cares less about what the ESRB thinks and more about what the CCP thinks, seeing as Tencent has a major stake in Epic. China is generally anti-death in games