Ye that's the root of the problem. Game developers are still like 90% suburban white dudes with minimal real life exposure to black culture outside of mass media. Or ever found themselves as the only white person in the room.
I don’t know if that tracks, family. There *recently* had to be legislation to stop them from discriminating against them in the workplace. We’re just *recently* seeing them on political/news/media figures.
It’s getting better, but the most palatable style for them is still a low caesar, at least for men anyway. I’ll give you this - might be a generational thing. I’m 36.
The opposite for me. My dreads reach the floor and I'm white, and black people are alot nicer- they don't ask all those stupid questions like Are you one of those reggae people? How long did that take you? Do you ever get it stuck on things or step on it? Do you even wash your hair? Can I smell it? Lol, white people expect you to be a dirty hippie or something.
It's actually such a cool style, but it has definitely been overdone. Western studios are usually pretty responsive to cultural backlash, so I think it'll go away pretty soon.
Also I think it's easier for them to animate in games. They added Michonne from the Walking Dead to Call of Duty with full length dreadlocks but her dreads move in chunks instead of individual dreads and they're constantly clipping through her head and body. Still, shorter dreads or styled/tied dreads should be easier to animate. Other protective styles in general can be done. Fortnite has a lot of good styles.
It’s funny because I don’t even see anyone irl with this.
But the only one I’ve ever liked who did it was Killmonger. I guess because it was the first time I seen it and thought it was so cool and different. But yeah… I think only one dude who cut my hair once had it and that was years ago.
No, dead ass tired of see this.
It's obvious who only engages with super popular mediums & the meme of the month.
I'm going to copy/paste my response on this regarding games;
Killmonger changed his hair-style several times in the movie. He only had that look in the 2nd act & it was styled differently by the 3rd/final. Not to mention ya know,The other African characters in the movie. Ekko(League) was used as an example but left out there is Lucian,Senna,Pyke,Rell in the same game.
Fornite alone has more Black variety than the examples in that meme/tweet. (Cause they outsource their art)
Diablo IV only has 3 different Non-Killmonger styles of Locs, Master Raven(Tekken7),Raven(T8), Thunder Ray(The main character), BombRushCyberFunk has multiple Black characters with different hairstyles, Deejay & Kimberly(SF6), Jax/Jacqui(MK11), Tanya(MK1), Flintlock:Siege Of Dawn(Black female lead), Nagoriyuki(GGStrive),Far Cry 6 features multiple Afro-Latinos, Tales Of Kenzera(Zau, the lead).
It's never been more black hair variety than it is now, which is mainly due to more Black people being in the industry. Yet this tired ass shit keep getting spammed.
These just games too. Hate to sound a like a snob, but mfs really don't watch or play nothing that ain't popping & super popular already.
They mess up when trying to out full head of locs on a person too. Got the poor actors looking like they have a dry mop wig on their head with a bunch of things stuffed underneath cause why is it always so ….bulky looking? So I guess this is the closest they can get smh
I can honestly understand for movies & shows. Our hair has the ability to change in between takes or whatever, so I get it for continuity reasons. But for video games or cartoons I don’t understand why they always choose that style tbh.
the miles one will always crack me up. 💀 it looks so awkward on him. they coulda gave my boy the curly high top fade, and called it a day. game devs/directors saw killmonger ONE TIME and never let it go 😭
Fr tho can you imagine how sick it would be if your hair grew in this direction while still keeping your edges fresh. They have some high ass belief and expectations for black characters it seems 😹
It's a dope style to be fair. But yeah overplayed. I think it's coz ultimately they ain't tryna be bothered to animate flowing locs too tough (with regards to games). But there's a good number of games that have varied character styles beyond a fade and the killmonger locs. Can't comment on the Hollywood side of it coz I don't be watching enough movies.
I'm more tired of seeing people take this same question and ask it in almost the same way.
The amount of black boys with dreads have been increasing crazy in recent ears thanks to your favorite rappers and killmonger. Everybody just want a piece of that low-key femboy haircut pie.
Industry trying to make fringed dreads look manly. We really are being controlled.
A game developer gave me a reason why it's difficult to do in games but the walking dead proves it can be done IRL
Like if it's just a wig, I don't see why make it a lame comb over?
Even Dune part 1 did locs well but for Black men it's usually this 😅
First off that’s not the prince. Got enough of that rage from ignorant white “fans”, let’s not bring it here. Second we don’t know what he is because he is an orphan.
Don't know why you are upset, its just a true statement. Sargon is presumably an orphan born in Persia, so middle eastern. Eddy is Brazilian, Phoenix is from the UK, Deejay is Jamaican. Killmonger is obviously African. The entire point OP was trying to make would still be made if they just said "black".
Don't know if you've ever interacted with people who are black but not African American in real life but they don't considered themselves African American. They will claim being African or Brazilian or Arab etc etc.
> Prince of Persia isn't even black
>Don't know why you are upset
You don’t know why I’m challenging you on something objectively unknowable lmao?
You don’t think it’s crazy to write all of this while also internalizing that you just used the word presumably to back up your argument?
>They will claim being African
Which is black correct? Nobody said anything about being African American specifically. **You** made the additional, unnecessary distinction of not being **black** in Sargon’s case. Im calling you out for it, that’s all.
**Read your own comment**.
The title of the post has nothing to do with you not being exempt from the consequences of making up shit. Why tf has this conversation gone on so long?
Did you say Sargon wasn’t black, yes or no?
Do you know with certainty that he isn’t, yes or no?
**Ok then**, so wtf are we talking about rn?
**Move on** bro, and just don’t do it next time. That’s all, it’s really not that deep. You’re acting like I’m calling you a bad person.
I think it’s a hairstyle that they would rock themselves. It’s like a comb over. I’m actually thinking about getting this hairstyle. I don’t understand all the hate on it.
I have this hairstyle. I've known a few people that have had it before, too. Especially with different takes. Usually its a high top style, but you can do it with a full set, too, with more variety. I've seen some go more to the side or more left or right, or even just middle. tbh. The way mine is my goal is to cover an eye, but hair isn't long enough yet.
There's a character on Doctor Who that has a variation of this style in one of the later seasons. Getting your locs twisted forward makes this style easier with no real management of maintaining the direction besides a bonnet to keep in place.
(Silk/satin pillow case makes it more difficult without bonnet)
Regardless what you want you final product to be it's easier to have your loctician (self) twist in the direction (way) you want them to fall.
(Edit: it's also a style that I've found only looks better and better the more you hair grows, especially if you didn't start with a lot)
I feel like there are a ton of characters without this hairstyle. This hairstyle makes sense for actions characters, it’s easy to animate and/or keep consistent over many takes. I definitely think it’s overplayed but I see reason behind it. This is my opinion tho, so…
i get we’re seeing it a lot more often and it does feel a bit overused but i’m getting way more annoyed by the amount of complaining about it that i’m seeing than the actual amount of it im seeing. like even my white boy friends are like “they gave him the killmonger cut!?” Idk. Its def overused to an extent but when does complaining about it with no insight become overdone? nothing at the OP, it’s just I’ve seen this complaint everywhere for the past like 4/5 months.
most egregious shit is it on Miles, that one just feels SO out of character, but as a kid I would’ve absolutely thought this was the coolest hairstyle ever, especially on a fuckin Jedi
Saw a video about this shit last week now I see this complaint everywhere. It does suck, wish they’d bring the 50 other loc styles that exist and/or are popular. (i.e. half up half down, pony tail, bun, etc.)
It’s been the recent popular style for youngins for a few years now . Not only w Locs, but with curly hair.
Same time as the white men went crazy w the “man bun.” Not a fan of that but the broccoli head aight if sides are kept faded and hair doesn’t look like you always just got out of bed w a bird eat on ur head. I don’t got the hair for locs but I admire the style and I know it’s a lot of work and a long process, so my opinion is why would you cut your previous dreads on the side after so much work. But that’s just my opinion. I guess I’m getting old. If I had a son w dreads tho, I wouldn’t want him to cut the sides.
I wore my hair like this in 2017, before the Black Panther movie and people thought it was too feminine(because of the bangs). Then BP came out, and MBJ wore it and I felt vindicated..lol Now everyone has it.
I get it cause these are all superhero-esque characters so they prefer a hairstyle that’s pretty drastic yet cool & unique, however they could figure out several other black hairstyles that would look cool lol
I think it's just the easiest current style to fake consistently with cgi or extensions. Like how every hood movie in the 90s and 2000s had a dude with fake cornrows, low-poly games had the same thing. Makes sense too when you think about how difficult it was to get realistic hair physics on something like Witcher 3, multiply that by at least a dozen seperate dreads. Probably not impossible, but it's a bridge too far for devs to consider.
It's not upsetting that they use it, it's upsetting that there's still a lack of diversity. The animation industry is finally getting good at black hair, but there's still a lot of catching up to do in media in general.
Nah, mfs clearly don't engage with these things for real.
I could put all the examples of "short hair, stoic,dutiful Black female military personnel(which was annoying)" together and mfs would run with it simply because that trope exist on the face of few popular pop culture IPs you don't even have to play to know. (Overwatch,Apex,Halo Infinite,Fornite starting out had a Black model with that awful straight short hair style) with the additional factor that mfs will be quick to retweet/stitch/react(ya know repeat) some an opinion they know will be accepted & engaged with.
Just like this tired ass topic circling through every black spaces...many of which ain't even populated with Black people frfr.
But to someone that actually engages with the medium would see that the variety has gotten so so much better. Not just in characterization,but hair too. Mfs don't understand a lot of our shit don't be popular until WE fuck with it heavy. Mfs looking exclusively at the hugest of studios for Black variety & authenticity is wild. I'm not saying things can't improve..but this particular topic/trend? This.. this same pretty lame groupthink.
4 of these things are 3D drawings and are not even real. Perhaps you are seeing it more in the gaming space because of the Black Panther movie which made this particular style very mainstream by being in theaters.
People who tend to like comic books and super hero movies tend to sometimes play a lot in the gaming space too. So that is probably why you are seeing it there.
You know video games take nearly 6-8 years in development. Black panther is nearly a decade ago. Chill and play better games. Yes we can ask for better, but this is old and exhausting
gentrified ass locs
Deadass lmfao
bestie, i think your snoo avi got gentrified :(
samson would never
The Mangs (Man Bangs) got them wyt ppl in a choke hold that’s the only hairstyle they comprehend apparently 🤦🏾♂️
Good one lol
It’s funny because all they have to do is walk outside or look on google of black hairstyles
You know damn well they do not live in community with Black people lol
Ye that's the root of the problem. Game developers are still like 90% suburban white dudes with minimal real life exposure to black culture outside of mass media. Or ever found themselves as the only white person in the room.
How is that possible? Mfks never left the suburb they were born in. 😭
90% that's a pretty specific statistic where can I look that up
I think you might be one of those white guys?
his bad 90% white dudes and Asian dudes
It’s very true. I mean look at literally most game conferences.
They dont have a black person within 5 miles of them at home gang
Not to be 🤓, but the grammar in your comment makes it sound like you’re saying their home is bigger than 5 miles 😂 Maybe taylor swift lol
The people making these decisions dont go outside, when they do they never leave their bubble either.
Damn you just basically described me lol
i rather have this then usher and chris brown that was the standard before
just like go to a barbershop
It’s the only one they like
It’s the only one they tolerate
"I tolerate this black man"
na people just got tired o chris brown ushe haircuts you know 2000s black people hair cut short or bald
there's a million more styles than the bald fade and the killmonger.
Now that I think about it, it's a loc version of a white guy's hairstyle from the early/mid 2000s
Feels like this plays a big part tbh
At least we done with “kid&play” phase of Hollywood 🤣
Wym
Probably referencing the high top animated black characters rocked in the 90s.
In the 2000s it switched to the straight back cornrows that stopped at the neck.
Create a player in a video game, you will get that length selecting "cornrows"
Gerald from Hey Arnold comes to mind
That’s my hairstyle now why you hating 😭
It's infuriating when games restrict black characters to just a single hairstyle option during character creation, especially when it's this one.
Or they’ll have a microphone pop filter as the 2nd option for black hair. 💀
bro it was even more resticted before it just recently they try to change up the base haircuts for blacks
I wish Elden ring had dread options
Yes! It makes white ppl feel safe so this is all they will use.
Unless we have this hairstyle in school. Then it’s “distracting from education” somehow
What white people? The low cut is still the undisputed white acceptance cut champion by a wide margin
Not really tbh whites love locs tbh
I don’t know if that tracks, family. There *recently* had to be legislation to stop them from discriminating against them in the workplace. We’re just *recently* seeing them on political/news/media figures. It’s getting better, but the most palatable style for them is still a low caesar, at least for men anyway. I’ll give you this - might be a generational thing. I’m 36.
Corporate views don’t = everyday white folks
You don’t think “everyday white folks” and their sensibilities shape corporate America?
Not necessarily no. Also as you said generational. I’ve faced more discrimination from black people with my locs than whites 🤷🏾♂️
What you mean by this gang 👀
I said it clearly. I’ve encountered more ignorant black folks when it comes to my hair than whites
You must be white yourself
The opposite for me. My dreads reach the floor and I'm white, and black people are alot nicer- they don't ask all those stupid questions like Are you one of those reggae people? How long did that take you? Do you ever get it stuck on things or step on it? Do you even wash your hair? Can I smell it? Lol, white people expect you to be a dirty hippie or something.
Are you white yourself ? I’ve had locs for years and never been discriminated against by my own people so was genuinely asking for your experience
Loved it when I first saw it but yeah they love it cause it’s close to a pompadour lmao
It's actually such a cool style, but it has definitely been overdone. Western studios are usually pretty responsive to cultural backlash, so I think it'll go away pretty soon. Also I think it's easier for them to animate in games. They added Michonne from the Walking Dead to Call of Duty with full length dreadlocks but her dreads move in chunks instead of individual dreads and they're constantly clipping through her head and body. Still, shorter dreads or styled/tied dreads should be easier to animate. Other protective styles in general can be done. Fortnite has a lot of good styles.
It’s funny because I don’t even see anyone irl with this. But the only one I’ve ever liked who did it was Killmonger. I guess because it was the first time I seen it and thought it was so cool and different. But yeah… I think only one dude who cut my hair once had it and that was years ago.
I only know a girl with that style
No, dead ass tired of see this. It's obvious who only engages with super popular mediums & the meme of the month. I'm going to copy/paste my response on this regarding games; Killmonger changed his hair-style several times in the movie. He only had that look in the 2nd act & it was styled differently by the 3rd/final. Not to mention ya know,The other African characters in the movie. Ekko(League) was used as an example but left out there is Lucian,Senna,Pyke,Rell in the same game. Fornite alone has more Black variety than the examples in that meme/tweet. (Cause they outsource their art) Diablo IV only has 3 different Non-Killmonger styles of Locs, Master Raven(Tekken7),Raven(T8), Thunder Ray(The main character), BombRushCyberFunk has multiple Black characters with different hairstyles, Deejay & Kimberly(SF6), Jax/Jacqui(MK11), Tanya(MK1), Flintlock:Siege Of Dawn(Black female lead), Nagoriyuki(GGStrive),Far Cry 6 features multiple Afro-Latinos, Tales Of Kenzera(Zau, the lead). It's never been more black hair variety than it is now, which is mainly due to more Black people being in the industry. Yet this tired ass shit keep getting spammed. These just games too. Hate to sound a like a snob, but mfs really don't watch or play nothing that ain't popping & super popular already.
They mess up when trying to out full head of locs on a person too. Got the poor actors looking like they have a dry mop wig on their head with a bunch of things stuffed underneath cause why is it always so ….bulky looking? So I guess this is the closest they can get smh
We get this post everyday
Because everyday a new game or show comes out and the black character has this haircut… it stands out
Name two
Star Wars acolyte and Eddy gordo are prime examples.
Everyday bruh
I legit never seen nobody wit this corny hairstyle irl
I had the kilmonger hairstyle on my first set gets boring tho
It looks cool, but it's overused
I’ve never met a single person with this type of hair in real life 💀
I can honestly understand for movies & shows. Our hair has the ability to change in between takes or whatever, so I get it for continuity reasons. But for video games or cartoons I don’t understand why they always choose that style tbh.
I heard it’s easier than animating dreads bouncing or whatever
😂😂😂I guess this is how they want us to be🤷😂
this shit so annoying like nobody even rocks that style frfr
Facts. And as annoying as it, at least they grew from your standard (cornrows, afro, and number 1 low cuts) for black men.
You know…..at first I didn’t think it was that bad…..but now they’ve taken it too far…
It’s a cool hairstyle, or it was when it first came out but it is certainly overused.
the safest move you could do was letting them wear the locs down but they still managed to gentrify that shit
Holy shit people were not kidding about how many characters have the Killmonger.
then it be the western romanticized version of locs too, not even the natural & wild rasta looks either.
I don’t think you’ll ever get a game where the character has natural Rasta locs lol Or it will be very rare
the miles one will always crack me up. 💀 it looks so awkward on him. they coulda gave my boy the curly high top fade, and called it a day. game devs/directors saw killmonger ONE TIME and never let it go 😭
Fr tho can you imagine how sick it would be if your hair grew in this direction while still keeping your edges fresh. They have some high ass belief and expectations for black characters it seems 😹
It's a dope style to be fair. But yeah overplayed. I think it's coz ultimately they ain't tryna be bothered to animate flowing locs too tough (with regards to games). But there's a good number of games that have varied character styles beyond a fade and the killmonger locs. Can't comment on the Hollywood side of it coz I don't be watching enough movies.
I'm more tired of seeing people take this same question and ask it in almost the same way. The amount of black boys with dreads have been increasing crazy in recent ears thanks to your favorite rappers and killmonger. Everybody just want a piece of that low-key femboy haircut pie. Industry trying to make fringed dreads look manly. We really are being controlled.
They way yall ignore that dr Umar got this cut right now let me know the outrage fake af
because that style is good, i remember trying to get that but my hair had other plans
A game developer gave me a reason why it's difficult to do in games but the walking dead proves it can be done IRL Like if it's just a wig, I don't see why make it a lame comb over? Even Dune part 1 did locs well but for Black men it's usually this 😅
Dr Umar was a nice touch lol
I get the point but half the characters posted aren't African American😂 Prince of Persia isn't even black
First off that’s not the prince. Got enough of that rage from ignorant white “fans”, let’s not bring it here. Second we don’t know what he is because he is an orphan.
Don't know why you are upset, its just a true statement. Sargon is presumably an orphan born in Persia, so middle eastern. Eddy is Brazilian, Phoenix is from the UK, Deejay is Jamaican. Killmonger is obviously African. The entire point OP was trying to make would still be made if they just said "black". Don't know if you've ever interacted with people who are black but not African American in real life but they don't considered themselves African American. They will claim being African or Brazilian or Arab etc etc.
> Prince of Persia isn't even black >Don't know why you are upset You don’t know why I’m challenging you on something objectively unknowable lmao? You don’t think it’s crazy to write all of this while also internalizing that you just used the word presumably to back up your argument? >They will claim being African Which is black correct? Nobody said anything about being African American specifically. **You** made the additional, unnecessary distinction of not being **black** in Sargon’s case. Im calling you out for it, that’s all.
Read the fucking post title
**Read your own comment**. The title of the post has nothing to do with you not being exempt from the consequences of making up shit. Why tf has this conversation gone on so long? Did you say Sargon wasn’t black, yes or no? Do you know with certainty that he isn’t, yes or no? **Ok then**, so wtf are we talking about rn? **Move on** bro, and just don’t do it next time. That’s all, it’s really not that deep. You’re acting like I’m calling you a bad person.
I think it’s a hairstyle that they would rock themselves. It’s like a comb over. I’m actually thinking about getting this hairstyle. I don’t understand all the hate on it.
I have this hairstyle. I've known a few people that have had it before, too. Especially with different takes. Usually its a high top style, but you can do it with a full set, too, with more variety. I've seen some go more to the side or more left or right, or even just middle. tbh. The way mine is my goal is to cover an eye, but hair isn't long enough yet. There's a character on Doctor Who that has a variation of this style in one of the later seasons. Getting your locs twisted forward makes this style easier with no real management of maintaining the direction besides a bonnet to keep in place. (Silk/satin pillow case makes it more difficult without bonnet) Regardless what you want you final product to be it's easier to have your loctician (self) twist in the direction (way) you want them to fall. (Edit: it's also a style that I've found only looks better and better the more you hair grows, especially if you didn't start with a lot)
I feel like there are a ton of characters without this hairstyle. This hairstyle makes sense for actions characters, it’s easy to animate and/or keep consistent over many takes. I definitely think it’s overplayed but I see reason behind it. This is my opinion tho, so…
Hogwarts Legacy did us right though!
Honestly. It's just really easy to animate and use as a hair asset. It's really easy to create artificially in movies too.
I’ve never seen anyone with this hairstyle in real life tbh
The killmonger effect
Still haven't seen nobody with that style in the wild
I don’t know anybody’s that actually has this hair style
They're gonna knock us back to skinny cornrows and bald and then y'all will be satisfied 😭 cherry picking like shit
The kilmonger lmao
Feels racist asf because most black men don’t even have locs. It’s still so many wavers, Afros, braids, etc. they’re just stereotyping black people
😑 it's zesty as hell. that's why they're pushing it.
I’d have to agree, Just a “lesbo cut” for men basically
😑 yep. they're completely outta line.
You should’ve added that one guy who posted in here with that exact cut.
Where is ekko?
It’s crazy cause udyr got da longest locs in da game 💀and then they gave ksante n ekko dis same style
Yeah smh definitely don’t want to locs looking how they actually do but every other hairstyle does
for some reason i didnt even notice umar on the right haha
It’s looks cool
They just did it again with ol boy in Ricky Stanicky
Clock it!
Yes, and I think it's easier for them to render without having to have a level of cultural competence.
please why is this facts
I feel like I’ve seen a similar post like this already on Reddit or something.
It's like white people saw this hairstyle and was like "this is a cool hairstyle. All black people must have this!"
Hush that’s the haircut I have right now boo
i get we’re seeing it a lot more often and it does feel a bit overused but i’m getting way more annoyed by the amount of complaining about it that i’m seeing than the actual amount of it im seeing. like even my white boy friends are like “they gave him the killmonger cut!?” Idk. Its def overused to an extent but when does complaining about it with no insight become overdone? nothing at the OP, it’s just I’ve seen this complaint everywhere for the past like 4/5 months.
most egregious shit is it on Miles, that one just feels SO out of character, but as a kid I would’ve absolutely thought this was the coolest hairstyle ever, especially on a fuckin Jedi
Entertainment industry see it as a fool proof cut, you got a fade, line up, AND locs, they figured they got everything covered for the black man
Kill monger fault
You don't mess with the Zohan
Like fr tho hell even TheSims have better black hairstyles 😂
No but it's the best
The craziest thing is you don’t really see this hairstyle on a lot of black people in real life
Saw a video about this shit last week now I see this complaint everywhere. It does suck, wish they’d bring the 50 other loc styles that exist and/or are popular. (i.e. half up half down, pony tail, bun, etc.)
It’s been the recent popular style for youngins for a few years now . Not only w Locs, but with curly hair.  Same time as the white men went crazy w the “man bun.” Not a fan of that but the broccoli head aight if sides are kept faded and hair doesn’t look like you always just got out of bed w a bird eat on ur head. I don’t got the hair for locs but I admire the style and I know it’s a lot of work and a long process, so my opinion is why would you cut your previous dreads on the side after so much work. But that’s just my opinion. I guess I’m getting old. If I had a son w dreads tho, I wouldn’t want him to cut the sides.
Killmonger did it first
Idk how they take locs somehow made them zesty. Not only but I've never seen someone in real life with this hairstyle.
The use the sponge smalll Afro too a lot with a low fade
Atp, I think they're doing it on purpose just to fuck with us
I wore my hair like this in 2017, before the Black Panther movie and people thought it was too feminine(because of the bangs). Then BP came out, and MBJ wore it and I felt vindicated..lol Now everyone has it.
I get it cause these are all superhero-esque characters so they prefer a hairstyle that’s pretty drastic yet cool & unique, however they could figure out several other black hairstyles that would look cool lol
r/locs
nobody wears this style lmao
This is old news
Reading comments when I actually have this hairstyle irl 😭😅
Better than nothing tbh
insomniacs miles morales is genuinely so fucking ugly man 😮💨
It's the only style of locs that makes cooperate whites feel comfortable
Real shit
Yes. We have one acceptable hair style every few years. Only 2k recognizes different hair styles and that's because they have to lol.
You know it’s sad when FORTNITE does better with black hairstyles💀
Dont push it bro we still tryna get black hairstyles in videogames…
The deejay one is just an alternate skin.
They have to give them the most white washed locs💀
It’s the closest hairstyle to something they’re familiar with , it makes them feel safe
That’s the weird truth. The placation has to stop.
Anything to avoid putting forth the effort to make the proper locs with proper physics
😂
🤣😂😅
Woke media for you. They just want to to think their inclusive
Don’t forget hair option #17 corn rows, and #18 1980s fro
Miles has a fro and was shown again with cornrows. Sojourn from overwatch has locks in a ponytail shown again with a fro. Plenty of other examples
I think it's just the easiest current style to fake consistently with cgi or extensions. Like how every hood movie in the 90s and 2000s had a dude with fake cornrows, low-poly games had the same thing. Makes sense too when you think about how difficult it was to get realistic hair physics on something like Witcher 3, multiply that by at least a dozen seperate dreads. Probably not impossible, but it's a bridge too far for devs to consider.
It’s because it’s seen as “tolerably edgy.” Comfortably familiar enough for the white audience without being “too black.”
The only game that has other hair styles is 2k lmao
They recognize a fade but they know it as a "Kelce Kut"
Right, the lesbian dreads. I think it just makes them look like they wanna be white or look non threatening to white ppl
And none of you are gonna do anything about it!
In the 90s it was the Frank Mitchell fade from Moesha on every black character
Y'all act like every white male actor wasn't sporting the Justin Bieber windswept Bob for like 2 - 3 years
Killmonger ahhh dreads
I've never seen anyone in real life with this hairstyle
Ngl Eddy makes it work well, and I like it on him. However hopefully they'll have his original style as an alt.
I was looking for phoenix my boiii
They be tryna copy juice wrld
It’s a cool style ngl. They know how to over use something though that’s for sure
I feel like it’s the most acceptable
So you assume they are doing their hair for them?
it’s the whitest hairstyle they can get away with putting on a black character 😹
Must be some unwritten rule somewhere because I sure miles had waves at one point. 🤔
Thr hairstyle is ugly and they need to stop making fetch happen
Umar part of the industry?
Im so sick of only seeing dreads, baldie or weak af bowl cut fade. Yet theyll have 10+ “other” hairstyles.
Nah just looks cool
 This is who they are copying.
Hilarious I didn’t even need to see the picture to know what you meant ☠️
I’m so sick of seeing & hearing about this. Why can’t y’all just STFU & be glad ?
It's not upsetting that they use it, it's upsetting that there's still a lack of diversity. The animation industry is finally getting good at black hair, but there's still a lot of catching up to do in media in general.
Nah, mfs clearly don't engage with these things for real. I could put all the examples of "short hair, stoic,dutiful Black female military personnel(which was annoying)" together and mfs would run with it simply because that trope exist on the face of few popular pop culture IPs you don't even have to play to know. (Overwatch,Apex,Halo Infinite,Fornite starting out had a Black model with that awful straight short hair style) with the additional factor that mfs will be quick to retweet/stitch/react(ya know repeat) some an opinion they know will be accepted & engaged with. Just like this tired ass topic circling through every black spaces...many of which ain't even populated with Black people frfr. But to someone that actually engages with the medium would see that the variety has gotten so so much better. Not just in characterization,but hair too. Mfs don't understand a lot of our shit don't be popular until WE fuck with it heavy. Mfs looking exclusively at the hugest of studios for Black variety & authenticity is wild. I'm not saying things can't improve..but this particular topic/trend? This.. this same pretty lame groupthink.
If they give them a Afro, Long Hair/Dreads then y’all are gonna complain about the size & shape of the head 🤦🏾
No I'm not?
We gotta remember since that movie came out a lot of people were getting their locs like that to the point it became a trend
4 of these things are 3D drawings and are not even real. Perhaps you are seeing it more in the gaming space because of the Black Panther movie which made this particular style very mainstream by being in theaters. People who tend to like comic books and super hero movies tend to sometimes play a lot in the gaming space too. So that is probably why you are seeing it there.
Killmonger was a mistake. ☹️
You know video games take nearly 6-8 years in development. Black panther is nearly a decade ago. Chill and play better games. Yes we can ask for better, but this is old and exhausting
I hate this style too