The other day I was wearing a t-shirt with funky kong on it and realized I was getting a lot weird looks from black people, which prompted me to google this question. Apparently there have been internet debates about this topic for a long time. I’m starting to think there might be a point but I’m also conflicted since all the supposedly black traits are depicted in a heroic context. Funky Kong just always seemed like a chill dude who could be your friend.
It was the 90s, the gaming companies were trying to be hip and cool. Even Sonic had hip-hop influences, and he carried them onward into the early 2000s along with punk and metal influences too. But I understand trying to make monkies of all characters to be "hip and cool" may not have been the best idea. Nintendo got much more success with Mario Strikers instead.
>>39980It couldn’t have been people that have played Donkey Kong in the past and they just liked your shirt?
>>39984Maybe there were a few stares that could be interpreted that way but one woman rolled her eyes at me. Granted, I’m also weirdly paranoid about how I come across to other people and was maybe overthinking it.
>>39989What was the shirt specifically? Maybe there's an unaccounted for element.
>This is the gorilla ghetto
>The primate projects
I lold
Maybe they dont know donkey kong
>>39989She was probably rolling her eyes because you're wearing a video game shirt in public.
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>>39980donkey kong
country nation is third worldist. it's about anti colonialist struggle against KKKing KKKrool. it just uses racist semiotics as window dressing because it was made by brits employed by japanese
Diddy Kong is clearly a monkey, but I have always thought of Donkey Kong as a hairy Irish guy. The reddish-brown hair color, the face etc.