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

  • @lewdian69
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    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
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    Could you elaborate on the Tencent part? I understand they have a large stake, but why is it their collab and not Epic’s?

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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      Q: How does Snoop answer the phone?

      A: I’ll make the song.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think when kids will start doing it in public, the original symbol will lose its significance.

    • @[email protected]
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      Are you all too young to remember this already being a thing middle class white kids were already doing a couple decades ago?

      • @[email protected]
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        152 months ago

        Can confirm, I remember my middle school classmates doing the crip walk and the hand signs back in the early 2000s.

      • @Cryophilia
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        72 months ago

        This is lemmy, it’s full of literal children

        • @[email protected]
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          99% sure Lemmy has a higher average age than any social media other than maybe facebook

          • @Cryophilia
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            Because kids are addicted to social media

      • @RagingRobot
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        Yeah this immediately made me think back to middle school

  • @[email protected]
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    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
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            lol, it’s alright, it’s cold communication on the Internet. I also genuinely thank you for both replies!

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

        • @ladicius
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          Elimination.

          Death is such a harsh word.

        • @makeshiftreaper
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          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
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            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
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        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
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          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

        • @P00ptart
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          Personally, I can’t wait for XXX rated fortnight. /s

  • @mrfriki
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    72 months ago

    I think this summarizes pretty well the current state of video games.

  • @hperrin
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    12 months ago

    They also allow you to wear blue clothes!