30yearsofhurt
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People gotta be outraged about sumtin'. War, poverty, famine - nah. Silhouettes of imaginary girl? Hell yeah!
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Female trainer pose has been changed in Pokemon GO loading screen
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People gotta be outraged about sumtin'. War, poverty, famine - nah. Silhouettes of imaginary girl? Hell yeah!
... Easily?
Incredible how careful these companies are not to upset anyone, for reasons real or imagined.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I heard there were starving children in Africa to so wtf have YOU done about any of those things. Note, this wasn't the result of some outrage SJW boogeyman, this was an internal decision.
chicagocubsfan
Member
The Pokeball design looks a lot better in the 2nd picture.
GoldandBlue
Member
Looking at it close, just seems they wanted to touch up the original image while fixing up a few things, not just the Trainer. Of course there will be people who get upset about it though.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
They didn't reduce her hips. They just made it look like a normal person standing instead of a silhouette for a strip club.
It harms my fragile male insecurity when things aren't directly marketed towards me specifically. :<
MaximumSpider
Banned
Holy Order Sol
Member
bruh it takes actual effort to even see shit
30yearsofhurt
Member
You're projecting just a little too much. I don't recall mentioning any "SJW boogeyman".
I laughed and got really sad at the same time because of how accurate this is.
LordBaztion
Member
who the hell checks its phone like that
Because women with big/curvy hips like that don't exist? If you have a problem with a cartoon silhouette with curves, then it seems you have a very strong bias for women with skinny frames.
Please be joking.
A woman standing with her hips arched, exaggerated or not, equals strip club? Come on. Do you have women friends in social media? Have you seen the totally innocuous manner that women pose alone and with their friends when taking silly, fun pics? Are they all strippers now just because you have weirdly conservative expectations?
FYI, I don't care that it was changed. Either is fine. I just think it's crazy and immature to say "they got rid of the stripper."
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
When people are referring to "outrage." They're typically referring to a non-existent boogeyman that scares poor game devs into representing women as equals instead of like objects whether it's with overt things like Cindy in FFXV or Quiet in MGSV or the normalization of ridiculous illustration tropes. Poses such as the original version of this image being one such example. There was no outrage about this pose specifically, the designers while touching up this image for the app decided that it'd be best not to make a silhouette that looks similar to the following.:
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etc. it'd be best not to alienate half your fanbase with things even remotely like the above.
Read the text above before dying on this hill bro. And while you die on your hill take your "womenirltoo™" sign with you. And concerning the bolded.
what a ridiculous accusation.
I'm not "dying" on any hill. If a woman takes pics like that regularly, do you think she would appreciate the likes of us calling her a stripper? I don't think you understand half of the fanbase if you regard all of those poses, most of which are pretty mundane, as "stripper poses."
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
You're literally missing the point of the change and absolutely cannot deny the similarity between that original pose and the ones I posted, the main difference is literally the hand holding a phone. Those are literally all silhouettes from the entrances of strip clubs. ಠ_ಠ
Salty Rice
Member
The change makes sense. This looked like Kim Kardashians shadow.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Some of those poses are innocuous though, outside of the heels.
All those poses are sexual or at the very least sexy, something that really isn't needed in Pokemon of all things.
RichiRamjag
Member
Some of those poses aren't all that crazy tbh.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Apparently if you don't like the original pose you just have an inherent bias towards skinny women. And the silhouettes of strip club entrances bearing a reasonable at worst resemblance to the original pose means nothing. Women irl pose like that everyday didn't you know? /s Dude probably thinks women walk like Bayonetta too. >_>
I literally did not miss anything, bro. I think you're approaching this from a narrowly framed personal POV of what is or isn't acceptable for a woman's pose and calling it a stripper's pose. I fully understand what your meaning is and I strongly disagree on account of the fact that any ordinal girl or woman can be found posing like that IRL. Don't come at me with this "womenirl lol" remark as if it's not legitimate. No one made you the arbiter of what is or isn't in good taste for the visual personification of women. At best, you're incredibly conservative. At worse, you're displaying an level of condescension on what is/isn't acceptable and conflating it with the far more absurd examples one may find in like a comic book cover where a woman is contorted to hell in unrealistic sexy poses.
CountAntonius
Member
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SpiritSlayer
Member
From what I see it's not even about making a curvy/thick girl skinny. It's the fact that the trainer model is over exaggerating pushing their hips out which appears super awkward.
No idea what they were thinking with the old one, she either had comically huge hips or was standing in the most awkward way possible to emphasize her hips, either way, this is an improvement, reminds me of this ME:A concept art with a similar nonsensical pose.
when you gotta save the galaxy but you just drank a 44oz cherry limeade at Sonic
Garrett Hawke
Member
Cool, show me the art that has the male trainer pulling the same pose.
It was a similar art style to what they did to the male trainer and his neck. It was all warped. I figured it would just due to style. Makes sense people would freak out though and demand something more realistic, just kinda lame because I preferred the old art style. I didn't even think anything was wrong until I read the reactions here.
Here's a reminder of the poor male trainer and his warped neck
https://imgur.com/gallery/1kVon
You can't be serious? It was obviously just a style thing. If you felt offended by it that's your problem and what you're projecting on the image. It was a silhouette of a trainer taking a picture. It was pretty obvious what was intended and it's sad that it's been misinterpreted and had to be changed.
bobbychalkers
Member
Off topic but this thread just reminded me that Feel The Magic XX/XY existed
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
no one asked to change it, they did of their own volition because they thought the result better fit what they were going for. why are you trying to censor their changes?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
The version in that original pose absolutely looks contorted, what even is that pose? Stand up from your chair and/or bed and try to stand exactly like that original pose, see how awkward it feels.
You do the same.
This to me would be the bigger issue (parity between the two), not that the original is somehow a "stripper" that needs to be purged.
I have a pretty big butt for a dude and have a habit of leaning into one hip. I could pull it off... but hey, you know all about allll "realistic and acceptable" body types and poses.
EvilKatarn
Member
Is this a stripper reference?
CountAntonius
Member
It was a stupid pose. I have no qualms about it existing or being changed.