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There is no war in Natlan just white people.
HOW DO I COMPLAIN TO HOYOVERSE?
It's easy, and there are MULTIPLE things you can do! I recommend doing each item on this list.
1. SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION
The petition will be delivered to the appropriate cultural reps, in order to complain to the CCP about the negative impression this is leaving on Chinese companies. Genshin Impact is highly favoured by the government for the positive press it gives the country, and putting pressure on the 'big daddy' is FAR more likely to make Hoyoverse buckle.
As of right now, the petition has nearly 38k signatures.
2. EMAIL HOYOVERSE
Email them directly at genshin_cs@hoyoverse.com to state how this has affected your desire to continue playing their games.
3. USE THE IN-GAME SURVEY OR FEEDBACK
Genshin Impact has frequent update surveys, and there is a permanent option to give feedback at any time. You can find it in the Paimon Menu.
4. REVIEW BOMB
Rate Hoyoverse's games, particularly Genshin, with one star on the app store. This has already proven in the past to have an effect, when this caused the team to review the anniversary rewards.
Here is a guide on how to do this!
5. POST IN OFFICIAL HOYOVERSE ACCOUNTS' COMMENTS
Do not be silent! Speak up about your displeasure. It's important that these comments outweigh the rest! Show that we are the MAJORITY.
6. SPEAK UP
Use the tags!
#BoycottHYV #WhyAreTheyWhiteHoyo #GenshinImpact #FixNatlan
Be relentless.
FURTHER DETAILS UNDER THE CUT!
WHAT SHOULD I NOT DO?
The following actions should NOT be taken:
DO NOT spend money on Hoyoverse games.
DO NOT sent threats, to voice actors OR customer service staff.
DO NOT engage with trolls or racists. Block and report.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
It's easy to dismiss this in the face of 'more important' issues in the world at the moment, but Genshin Impact (And by extension, Hoyoverse) is a very influential game and company. It is extremely popular, and directly influences MANY other games and players through this popularity.
This isn't an issue of 'just stop playing'- This is not anger for a game's decisions, it's anger for a precedent. It's a demand that not only should Hoyoverse care about representation, but other, smaller, companies too. If Hoyoverse can get away with it, so can others- But if Hoyoverse is held accountable for their exploitation of culture, then it sets the precedent that other companies have no chance of doing the same.
Like it or not, Hoyoverse has a lot of influence, and the CCP itself values the company for giving China a positive image in other countries. This is bigger than just being mad at character design.
EDIT: It was also pointed out to me that if POC were to simply stop engaging with hostile content, they would have nothing left. 'Just stop playing' isn't fair, plain and simple. POC deserve to play the things that they enjoy WITHOUT being ostracized.
DOES HOYOVERSE LISTEN?
They listen if there's no money lining their pockets, they listen if their reputation is damaged, and they listen if the CCP gets involved. We have direct evidence of this.
Review bombing alone caused Hoyoverse to reconsider the first anniversary rewards.
The CCP forced Hoyoverse to reskin various characters to comply with their laws, which HYV did. (This isn't necessarily a good thing, however, it is still evidence that CCP has influence over them.)
This is by far the largest outcry the company has seen so far, and MANY of HYV's voice actors have spoken out in support for the movement as well. This is not just playerbase complaints, but staff, too.
I recommend following AvenOfStrats on X/Twitter for further updates on the petition's progress, and on other ways to contribute. They also share plenty of resources on why this is important, and guides on how to complain.
Due to visible growing dissatisfaction among the playerbase, we have branched out to Tumblr as well! This account will provide information on the HoYoverse boycott
Guys, we have to boycott Hoyoverse because of the colorism/racism
The way it makes me mad cause Natlan is coming out soon but literally no character have actual dark skin when the nation is supposed to represents South America/Africa?? and they trick us by giving white hair to certain characters to make it seem like they have darker skin
Like bro where is the diversity in your games?? you did the same shit with sumeru and in other of your games
It’s so frustrating, especially as a black woman like, where are the characters representing other skin colors? You have players from all over the world but can’t bother to give them proper skin colour
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Mualani, Kinich, and Kachina with skin tones based on what are as far as I know the peoples they're based on: Native Hawaiians for Mualani, Maya peoples for Kinich, and Pueblo peoples for Kachina. If I made any mistakes please let me know.
whenever you try to make some excuse that the hoyo devs are chinese and therefore can’t make darker characters or whatever the fuck, please remember dislyte’s existence
Yeah Hoyoverse is just colorist, you can see this across their games. And all the brown units are suspiciously either poorly designed or can't compete with the paler units. Such as Arlan from Honkai Star Rail I think the only dark skinned character in that game and many mediocre characters from Genshin Impact such as Cyno, Xinyan, the infamous Dehya herself and others. I like your redesign and others that have been going around, and it's crappy that they completely butchered the representation of your people and culture. I'm African-American so not familiar with the cultural references Genshin is pulling from but it would still be nice to see more brown and black people in game. The darkest character is maybe Kaeya or Xinyan and they are not the best units especially poor Xinyan being left to the wayside. Hopefully there's enough backlash for change.
Quickest redesign of the west, I drew this in like 20 min. I'll probably redraw this with more patience
I'm absolutely furious at how they butchered my culture, not only them being pale, but also none of the designs have traditional clothing at all.
Anyway, I claim xilonen as my own as our names have the same meaning (mines the purépecha ver of the name, not nahuatl)
... this is supposed to be a Nigerian?
This is supposed to be a Nigerian?
You can't even tell by the design of the clothes he's wearing, let alone his skin color.
I don't know which higher-up in Genshin's art department and development is allergic to melanin or simply portraying certain cultures well, but come on now. Be serious, Hoyoverse. Be for real.
I don't like putting this on blast as I just want to exist in peace, but as someone who's not only a casual history enthusiast, but also happens to be ethnically Nigerian and has some Yoruba blood, this is fucking abysmal.
I was thinking this if they had an art contest or Hoyofair, people should come together to darken these characters like they should be. This controversy will die down in about a week or so, but it can be brought back if people do something like this. Though Hoyo can pick who they want to showcase art of and a lot the Genshin community not all but a lot don't care about what happened or are racist, evident in the Natlan Teaser trailer comments.
Everyone upset about Natlan's (A region based on Africa/Ring of Fire Countries) lack of dark skin characters
When Natlan inevitably gets an art contest fucking BOMBARD them with the darker-skin edits of the Natlan characters. Direct action- FORCE them to acknowledge what people want, what people are pushing for.
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