It hasn't been a notorious gang sign since the early 2000s. It was already main stream with white kids doing it over 20 years ago.
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I see OP in their comment history uses "tyres" so they're probably not from the US.
C-Walking has been a prominent fad in the US, more so in the early 2000s than recently, but most people are familiar with it.
I don't understand the context of this post, but there's not much here of note if you grew up in the US and made it past late teenager.
At this point, Snoop is inevitable.
Q: How does Snoop answer the phone?
A: I'll make the song.
Could you elaborate on the Tencent part? I understand they have a large stake, but why is it their collab and not Epic's?
"China bad" probably
I'm wondering as well.
Lol, it's a freakin' "dance step". "Notorious gang sign", only to the tiny world of gang morons. The rest of us 350 million in the US, and the other 4 billion outside the US have no idea.
Tempest in a teapot.
7.7 billion.
hey it's an American acknowledging "outside of the US" let's look on the bright side
He had it right. There are 3.7 billion crips. ๐ฆโ๏ธ๐ฅถ๐ธ
Personally I don't see the big deal. Seems more like a pop culture thing.
What I would really like to see is a Winnie the Pooh emote/walk.
That would be immediately banned in China.
Isn't he already in Call of Duty?
Snoop is in anything that'll pay him.
Yes but a big difference is Call of Duty is an M rated video game whereas Fortnite is rated T. Fortnite doesn't feature blood, death, or swearing. Does it matter that the same kids probably play both? That's for the parents to decide
Of course Fortnite features death, we aren't showering other players with love.
Epic's official language for the game never features death. Characters are eliminated, you can meet the god of the underworld, but no character ever actually dies. Apparently the ESRB says it's ok
The point of the game is to shoot people with actual guns until you're the only person (or team) left. Is the word "kill" really where ESRB draws the line?? (not that I think fortnite should be rated R)
Personally, I can't wait for XXX rated fortnight. /s
I imagine Epic cares less about what the ESRB thinks and more about what the CCP thinks, seeing as Tencent has a major stake in Epic. China is generally anti-death in games
I think when kids will start doing it in public, the original symbol will lose its significance.
Are you all too young to remember this already being a thing middle class white kids were already doing a couple decades ago?
Can confirm, I remember my middle school classmates doing the crip walk and the hand signs back in the early 2000s.
This is lemmy, it's full of literal children
99% sure Lemmy has a higher average age than any social media other than maybe facebook
Because kids are addicted to social media
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Fuck Epic