Extremely Normal Guy (not weird about stuff) @planarpunk.com · Jun 12 I honestly don't get the hand-wringing. Like 20% of GTA characters are poorly-disguised "homages" to some celebrity, living or dead, and usually not with any of the actual respect or thought being applied here. It's been common for years, if not decades. Was Miracle Johnson disrespectful too?
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- Miracle Johnson is a parody, not a recreation - He isn't a major character - He was also never advertised as "Michael Jackson"
isn't it so cool how black faces and black voices and black bodies and black people are constantly treated as free and open access for everyone? definitely no reason i can think of that would make the use of specifically a murdered black man's face and voice to sell a game seem deeply grotesque 😐
u don't have to pretend that weird shit is regular to keep being a yakuza fan u can just keep enjoying the games 👍
Gta isnt trying to make actual representations of people. Youre not supposed to take those characters seriously. However these guys want us to care about literally just tupac, they want us to genuinely care about a digital reproduction of a dead person, which no one related to him had a say in this.
I don't know why, but I do draw the line at this techno-necromancy. It steps across a line that makes me feel wrong But I also wouldn't balk at any historical figure being animated in a similar fashion, whether they obscured the exact likeness in parody, etc. Idk.
Because there is a difference between caricature, parody, and sockpuppeting that's usually pretty easy to define.
Miracle Johnson is a legally distinct parody character. He wasn't designed with the intent of "envisioning what Michael would be like if he was still alive". Miracle Johnson is a goofy homage. Tupac in this game is the devs imposing their interpretation onto tupac's legacy. It's digital necromancy.