@graf
I'm happy they're sad. They're almost certainly midcane fans.
@graf "Arcane" is a Netflix series loosely based on the League of Legends IP.
While never originally meant to be canon, in late 2023, Riot retconned everything in conflict with it in an attempt to recoup an estimated $150,000,000 loss on the show by converting television viewers into League players. It didn't work.
Meanwhile, people on Twitter and Reddit who only like Ekko because they're black and so is he, blindly accepted all of the broad-sweeping changes to literally every part of his story, personality, motivations, place in the world, and visual design, because "black people can't have mohawks", revealing that, again, they only ever saw him for his skin color.
I was summarily removed from r/ekkomains for not liking their television show and pointing out that literally every part of this character has changed, and no part of this character (other than the one thing they cared about) remained the same.
They post more about me than they do about Ekko.
I am happy with everything bad that happens to Arcane viewers. They killed my favorite person and then gaslit me about it.
That's the short version.
A tangent from LoL/Ekko fandom, but...
> "black people can't have mohawks"
Meanwhile the Berbers of North Africa (Libya)...
"...next to the Nasamonians along the sea coast towards the West come the Macai, who shave their hair so as to leave tufts, letting the middle of their hair grow long, but round this on all sides shaving it close to the skin..."
-- Herodotus, The Histories, 5th century BCE
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2707/2707-h/2707-h.htm#link42H_4_0001
The style was also worn by pre-Christian Irish Pagans, and 16th-century Ukrainian Cossacks.
Kinda reminds me of the whole dreadlocks cultural appropriation nonsense. People who bitch about this kinda shit usually have no fucking clue what they're even talking about. https://youtu.be/lHYls9e4mVM
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@toiletpaper
Yes but these places are where game developers look to when making decisions as to what to do with design and lore.
Ultimately, these are just stupid, shallow people who only see Ekko as a self insert. One of the moderators was making the argument to me in DMs that Ekko should be aged up be cause the people who play him have aged in the past ten years. I then pointed out that the crazy blue-haired bitch they simp should be like 30 by now, and the 7 year old fire-throwing girl (Annie) should be like 20 by now.
He said he doesn't understand the connection. He basically failed the breakfast question.
He stopped playing League as soon as Blade was added to Marvel Rivals. I'm beginning to sense a pattern.
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@toiletpaper
Plebbitors say I'm a horrible terrible person for saying they earned Trump's 2nd term with their behavior and systematic pushing away of anybody not within the Current Thing purity spiral.
All of the suffering caused by our government is firmly on the shoulders of plebbitors and Twitter users. Since they haven't seemed to learn their lesson, I'm personally hoping for a third term. I'm a left-leaning centrist.
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