I’m looking forward to 10 year old White boys doing this in broad daylight, and seeing Twitter flip their shit 🍿
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lmao I love it
I think this summarizes pretty well the current state of video games.
They also allow you to wear blue clothes!
Fuck Epic
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?
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
Isn’t he already in Call of Duty?
I believe the objection is not to Snoop for his gang affiliation, but rather to the dance specifically which is being claimed as a more overt gang symbol, sort of like if they added the blood hand sign.
Of course I don’t think this is even remotely an issue of concern for most of the reasons others have already commented on this post (it’s a pop culture thing now, essentially), but I do think it’s worth acknowledging the distinction between person and symbol here to be able to have honest discussion of the topic.
I mean I think I understand the argument for your distinction. I don’t play either games, I just watched VFX artists reaction and saw Snoop Dogg in it so I was wondering why it’s such a big deal with Tencent. As he does seem to “dance” in CoD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhPvXhXoUM.
I may take slight issue with your last statement. To be clear, I’m not trying to have a “dishonest discussion”, I genuinely don’t understand the distinction and there isn’t really an article or anything here for me to clarify.
Thanks for your reply on it though it does clarify a bit more to me.
I may take slight issue with your last statement. To be clear, I’m not trying to have a “dishonest discussion”, I genuinely don’t understand the distinction and there isn’t really an article or anything here for me to clarify.
I apologize, I sincerely wasn’t trying to imply you were being willfully dishonest or disingenuous, I was just trying to offer the correction to ensure clarity. I promise, I intended no offense and did not mean to imply anything about your character. I hope this clears that up and am legitimately sorry if you felt wronged.
lol, it’s alright, it’s cold communication on the Internet. I also genuinely thank you for both replies!