Woolie was recently talking about this, and he made a fantastic point. Oftentimes, when subjects like this are brought up, a common response to him was "Well why does it matter? It was made in Japan or whatever, it wasn't made for you" And Woolie's response is, "That's weird, it's not for me? Because my money went directly into their pockets."
@@pearlsoprano287 why would they include black people then not care enough to actually do our hair justice? just because its from japan or some other place is just no excuse. the internet is free. so much refference out there for this stuff and yet still the bare minimum. or just literally nothing. but everyone else in the game will have every style under the sun. shame.
The thing about the "why does it matter" crowd that is the most confusing is, if it's not a big deal, why is it such a big deal that it's added? Same with adding characters who aren't white, aren't straight, or aren't Cis. If none of these things are a big deal, why do G*mers get so upset when they're added?
@@John-bj1zx It's because in the early 2000's gaming was being used as a platform to recruit white supremacists. Many news articles, clans, forums and message boards were affiliated with Breitbart and had actual Neo-Nazi recruiters. The whole Gamer Gate thing was instigated by Steve Banon because the idea of diversity and inclusion hurts the bottom line when you're trying to radicalize people. This is also why there's so many right wingers in gaming
Dear Blessing, as the adopted dad of a black child it is very special to hear him say “That guy looks like me” when we are playing games together. He is 7 years old, representation matters and I love that you made this.
I came into this with an ignorant take of "it's a game, who cares about the hair" because I never think to really pay attention to the hair. I've left this video humbled and educated. It's not just "hair in a video game" it's much more than that, and I was ignorant for my original thoughts. There's a whole group of people still being discriminated against and misrepresented for their culture and im too in my little bubble to see it. This was helpful. Thank you.
From the Black girl who grew up in a white rural town, and told my cornrows made me look "alien," and many other comments and invasion of privacy via grabbing and touching my twists and braids: Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. You're amazing, Blessing. Never thpught my love for video games + Black American history + my own experiences would come together like this. This feels cathartic and I have tears in my eyes.
I grew up having these conversations with my brother, cousins and friends when playing games so it’s awesome to see such a well produced piece about it. Great work to Blessing and KF team. Much respect!
As a 3D Character Artist in the Games/movies industries, your video is a really interesting and precious gem and, with no doubt, a high source material for me which will inspire me in my work and will share it to other artists and co-workers. Thank you very much.
This is easily the best piece of content on KFG for me. Its not about franchises or reactions or trailers, its about telling a real story about real people. Amazingly paced and edited too. PLEASE never stop doing the Blessing Show and please keep promoting it. I really hope the algorithm catches on to what you guys have going on with this series, because I really think it could be huge
All y'all are just killing it this year. From the Spare Bedroom launch to this amazing video, every step of the way has had my jaw on the floor with how far you guys have come. Love you guys, keep up the amazing work and never change
I can't say enough good things about this video. Emotional and honest interviews, great jokes, personal experience, diverse perspectives, perfectly conveyed examples of what's right and wrong in the industry today. Everybody involved in creating this put a bit of themselves in it and I can tell it was made with love and a lot of reshoots. A very loud golf clap from me.
Top notch episode Blessing!! A long time ago I was a game tester for a Sims game. Being the one of the only black testers there I would always test the limited black hair styles first because even if they were limited, I wanted them to be right. I got called out by a manager saying that I needed to test other hair styles, which I understood and did but I always started with those.
Man that is so cool ! I heard you in the FPS podcast and instantly came and watch the video and I learned so.much about atuff I never actually thought about !! And it seems so little yet such a big deal and I agree that we all , everyone , need to make this heard about !!!😊❤
After watching this video, I can't believe I have never seen this channel before. The production level, the content, the mix of perspectives, the quality of interview and editing -- are all out of this world. Can't wait to go watch every other video you have!!
I love this. It’s eye opening and just so deep. My wife who doesn’t really watch the videos I put on was watching and listening the whole time with me. I love this and I love blessing. Amazing job!
Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this show since all of it was left to be a surprise. But I’m really pleased with the turn out. Not only is it an eye opener but it also spreads awareness. I hope more and more new games represent black hair and culture better. Keep up the good work bless!
Blessing, as a black man who's just started really appreciating his hair at 33 years old, thank you so much. I didn't know I needed this episode of The Blessing Show as much as I did. And thank so much to Leanza for sharing her story. This video was a fucking 5/5 on the KF scale. This is easily the best video y'all have ever produced. ❤️
Long time KF fan and I don’t usually comment on videos, but this is an excellent piece and a tremendous topic, really informative. Excellent work here Bless.
I wish more publications did high quality content like this. It's very much appreciated in a world where we are fed so much clickbait and quick-hit news. Keep it up!
This is an incredible piece that really should be nominated for an award. It's insightful, well researched, and enlightening. And I love the idea that things can be called out without cruelty, I think that's a lesson very needed right now.
This is such a spot on way to delve into this topic! I've had dreads for many years and whenever I create my character in a game, even if they do have dreads as an option, the styles are quite limited (maybe 1 or 2). It has this weird dysmorphia-esque affect on me for a little bit because it makes me feel like my own hair style should change to be better match the character I'm making... just because I spent some time on it and got attached.
Thank you, Kinda Funny. Having the conversation about this topic, Black hair, makes your channel head and shoulders above other gaming channels. I'm glad to see that this is a known problem that is finally being called out in video games.💯💪🏾
Woah! ❤ This is so good-props to all who worked on and interviewed for the project. It's inspired me as a fiction writer to assess how I'm presenting hair in my characters and to pay closer attention to that kind of detail detail. It was something I knew was significant culturally, but not something I had a lot of understanding around. Thanks for educating me :)
Thank you. I've been making videos about this for years, and all I get in the comments are people asking why do I care, or it's a non-topic. Thank you!
I feel like I've been complaining about this for years! This is so well done! Great Job by Blessing, Roger, & the whole KF team! Representation Matters!
Absolutely fantastic piece. Important topic, well reasoned, and well presented-the sort of work that pushes the industry and the conversation forward. More content like this, please!
as someone who used to roll my eyes at this issue, this video really helped me see the other perspective! Fantastic work to Blessing, Roger, and the rest of the KFG team who worked on this!
Huge congrats to Bless, Roger, and the whole Kinda Funny Crew! This is a great piece of content and you should be extremely proud of what you've created!
I literally yelled out loud when I saw the thumbnail for this episode of the Blessing Show!!! Woooowwwww!!!!! Thanks so much Bless for speaking on this topic because black hair in video games have been a failure for so long! I'll say the industry has put in effort to get it right to some degree, but those efforts have not worked well at all so far. Fantastic content as usual from Blessing and KF 👏👏👏
Congratulations Bless! This was honestly a surprise. I paused games daily and decided to watch this, not expecting what I got at all. I was genuinely invested and convinced that this is a big issue that needs to be addressed. As a white person, I had no clue this was a problem. Very humbling 👏
Blessing you fucking killed this my man! Always had these convos growing up with friends so I’m glad you’re putting a spotlight on it. Thank you for your awesome work, I hope this gets noticed by developers!
Blessing, as one of my favorite members of KF, this video is fantastic both in substance and creativity. Keep doing your thing and speaking out on what you believe in, being the voice for those that need it. Great job to Roger as well, this video is fantastically edited and produced.
Thanks for this blessing. I’m a white guy with tight curly hair and I’ve also had trouble finding my hair in video games, and always had to go with the Afro options. But I always found it a minor nuisance. Now that I know the history behind black hair I realize this is much bigger than I initially thought. Really hope more devs can start taking diverse hairstyles in games seriously.
I had long somewhat messy hair for years and there was never a hairstyle that matched for men in games, so it's definitely an area that needs attention, fuelling it with an ethnic importance can only help the issue, so hear, hear!
This was brilliant! Well done Bless and everyone on the KF team who helped produce this. Brilliant, informative, entertaining content. Loved it! Bless is smashing it. Love seeing his growth. So proud of him! 👊🏻
This is awesome Bless, thank you for making this. It's kinda funny that we know how they're going to react to this... sorry for taking it there... I truly hope we can all stay positive and keep progressing.
What an incredible video! Black hair has always been a huge thing for me when I play my games. It's awesome to hear someone speak about it! Amazing job Blessing, Roger, and the KF Crew! The Blessing Show keeps getting better and better.
This video got me emotional, so well paced and edited too. As a white man I never had this problem and was not aware of it, certainly not the extent of it. I cannot understand why there are games with no options or little like A Crossing, so much ignorance.
This is one of my new favorite KF videos. I really hope you do more educational stuff like this Bless, you're a natural host, and I really feel more educated on this topic that I've cared a lot about for awhile, but don't know much about. And videos like these make us inspired to do continued work and research to become more knowledgeable. Much love, man! Keep up the great work
This legitimately is the best piece of content on KF. Congrats Blessing and Rogers, and hope to see many more like these in the future. As a POC, I feel seen by content like this, so wanted to leave this note to say how much I appreciate the both of you, and to KF for providing this platform for your immense talent.
I genuinely love and and appreciate this topic. There have been a lot of games that I stopped in the character customization screen after realizing that I couldn’t make a character remotely look like me or look like cool badass hero me. Normally that’s my skin color with some long dreadlocks or a good medium sized afro with twist to combo it. Some of my favorite games have this issue of making it difficult to make a black character and that makes it very difficult to Role-play that hero I version of me I want to represent in the video games I play.
This has to be one of the greatest pieces of game journalism. Fantastic work to the kinda funny crew, but especially Blessing. This is something that is always on my mind as a black gamer and I hope this conversation continues and furthers change.
Incredible episode Blessing! As a black man trying to get into the games industry I've found topics like these Incredibly frustrating to explain. So many of my non black peers simply don't get it due to not having they connection. You nailed this video
Super proud to see how wide reaching this episode has been, especially with a topic that deserves to be shared for awareness. One of the best pieces of KF content hands down and only makes me more excited for what you guys have in store for the future. Glad it’s the new number one blessing show #gregsux
This is an excellent piece. Terrific work by Blessing and the whole KF team. I too always found it jarring about the lack of black hair in games. Really happy you mentioned Nioh 2. I was very pleased to see the hair styles on offer there.
Thanks so much for making this video. I'm an indie game dev who cares about diversity and representation, but am limited to my own cultural experiences. I always worry that including cosmetics from other cultures will come off the wrong way, even if my intentions are good. I wish I had a budget to hire team so I could make it diverse, but even without that capability, this video has helped a lot.
This was a dope video! Normally I'm audio only for Kinda Funny content so this was the first Blessing Show I've had the pleasure of watching and what an absolute banger!
Good job blessing! And good job KFG for being open and listening. You guys are different for this. Excellent work and keep changing the narrative. Really good work bless you are your name. A blessing.
Literal King shit right here. I have been a fan of KF since the inception and was overjoyed to see Blessing become one of the main individual for KF Games. As a Black man who rocks a fade and full beard, I have never been felt more seen. Great work, Bless.
Makes me sick that there's so many people actively fighting against this, and politicians literally trying to hide history like this from school education. Videos like this are becoming increasingly important. Thanks Bless
This is why representation is important, different viewpoints. KF has always been really forward-thinking, but I did not expect a piece like this. This is a common conversation amonst black gamers, and it’s so good to see it here. Excellent work Blessing and team.
What a great episode! Eye opening about how much things like this can impact people. ALso shoutout to the Blessing Show in general...when I heard ads when listening to Games Daily, I didn't quite know what it was so I just didn't pay attention. But now I've watched just 2 episodes and this show is phenomenal!
I love this. As a Dominican having the same styles, I have never found a good match for my hair. I will also put a shoutout to apple with memojis are also trying by adding more hairstyles per update
This is an issue I'm glad has been discussed. It's always an issue for me when creating my character and trying to find a hairstyle that matches mine. Thanks for doing this Blessing 👊🏾
Damn great video! Informative, well shot, well edited and Bless killed as usual! A conversation that is needed and hopefully keeps improving as time goes on. Gotta keep that spotlight on it. Love it.
Bravo Bless. Bravo 👏🏽. The different avenues of research you did for this episode is fantastic! Wasn’t expecting to hear from other people of color across the industry and how they deal with representing the black community. What Leanza had to go through is absolutely absurd and I hope that this will never happen to any other child of color again, unbelievably disrespectful and dehumanizing as you said. It really shows how much her school was wearing their views towards the black community on their sleeve… can’t believe they got away with some shit like that. Keep fighting the good fight brother ✊🏽
I could watch hundreds more videos like this one. Entertaining and extremely informative and about a subject that needs to be addressed. Way to go blessing and team!
Thank you for bringing eyes on this topic, couldn’t think of a better person in the industry to address this. Black folk aren’t asking devs to completely change everything they know about gaming, we just want to see ourselves reflected accurately in games. The fact is that black hair is intrinsically unique, texturally and aesthetically. All adding it means is more options for everyone and more people can feel represented. Win win
Amazing video Bless. I’m so glad to see you using your platform for the change that you want to see. I’m a white man and I know that the hair options in character creators are severely lacking for anyone other than me. Production? On point. Message? On point. I love KF and the community, and this feels next level. Time to beat out Greg’s Avengers nonsense. Dead game, dead video. Blessing is the future. 💪🏻
Since im Mexican, my knowledge for black history is very limited, but videos like this helps me realize how much there is to black culture. Im no game developer, but i am trying to be a comic artist and now i want to make connections with black people so i can implement more about them in my work correctly. Everyone deserves to be acknowledged and seen.
More videos like this guys. This reminds me of the videos that Kurt at Gamespot is always making. Blessing is incredibly talented and that talent is showcased in segments like this. This is exactly what we need for KF. Great fucking content.
Awesome video Blessing. I’m happy to see you bringing an issue that many people may not be a big deal to the light. It’s ok e of the best videos you’ve done yet.
This was freaking amazing! The way you delivered this topic was masterful, and I hope that this becomes a proper example that development teams use. It's wonderful to feel seen and represented in a medium I love when it's done correctly.
