Talk:Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms/@comment-64.206.164.45-20170405182459/@comment-3171148-20170421033746

The We Wuz Kangs meme started in late 2015, likely from pages, threads and groups popping up, specifically it originated to poke fun at Pan-Africans, and the Black Egyptian hypothesis (Interesting enough, the Egyptians were neither White or Black, they were Berbers, not Nubians, or other Sub-Saharan peoples, which BTW is the groups that most African-Americans are descended from)

The African Kingdoms was released same time, and well, people thought it was a massive "WE WUZ KANGZ" propaganda, even though apart from their unique units, their units are still white, lol.

Personally? AoAK is good, not because "diversity" (Because games, and media don't require racial, gender, etc diversity, never push political messages unless it's of a character and it isn't forced) but because it feels like a product Ensemble made, and the civs play nicely and aren't garbage. (Also actors should be based on their performance, availability and other non-political reasons, which is why I'd prefer a psychopath character called "John Mays" to be played by someone like Steven Ogg compared to Samuel L Jackson, if John Mays was an IRL-person that was black, it wouldn't make much sense to have SLJ play him anyway, when there's probably a better example somewhere else) Also the Black Hypothesis itself is a garbage blackwashing theory, when Egyptian Artwork and depictions clearly showing them looking like deadringers to Berber people.

Shieeet has been around for ages, so it's not affected by AoAK.