I’m really happy that poll is making its rounds, thanks to y’all reblogging it, but whew, some of these takes in the tags y’all have about any cc that isn’t Maxis Match…
Some of y’all did NOT grow up with games that refused to represent you or the world around you properly, without either forcing it to fit in an aesthetic that erased your ethnic characteristics it didn’t deem palatable, or diminish it to the point of being a caricature, and it shows.
I appreciate how far MM cc has come since the inception of The Sims, esp The Sims 4, but the fact that it’s only mostly thanks to black creators, proves that a lot of y’all cannot see the constant struggle we still have to contend with when it comes to video games that make minimal effort to include us with well intentions, and this is something that affects the whole of marginalized people, black or otherwise.
Need I remind you how CAS used to look, prior to all the recent updates.
Need I remind you who fought for them.
Need I remind you the reason why the initial purpose of mods and custom content was to fight the aesthetic, of the puritanical, white, westernized, and suburban mold The Sims is still so unfortunately fond of to this day, if not more so.
Sad that I have to.