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TF2 has one black guy and seven white guys lol
but one of those white guys is a twink
Mind is officially changed
jerma
NAFOids have revoked The Heavy's White card, and Pyro is peak ambiguity.
Diversity is more than just skin color and genitals. Notice their accents and body shapes and more.
Pyro aside (because Pyro's race/gender are intentionally left ambiguous), 7/8 are white, 7/8 are western, and 8/8 are male.
Yes, but they could have included more non-Westerners.
Totally.
all of their accents are european or european settler lol
Going by that standard Heavy Weapons Guy aged into being more diverse as the russians got de-europified
I think tf2 usually gets ignored when it comes to this topic because it is sorta kinda satire, the characters aren't really intended to be self inserts or idealized empowered people, they are looney tunes caricatures with the gender expectations of the era being satirized baked right in
Not trying to say it's actually woke and diverse, just that people seem to care less about a lack of diversity when the characters are all characters instead of them being templates for expression