On today’s episode of “literally no one asked for that damn ass Fortnite collaboration “, TIME Studios connected with the hugely popular gaming franchise to develop” A March Through Time, “which opens a new area called DC 63, a” reinvented Washington, DC, “where you can explore the Lincoln Memorial and see Martin Luther King Jr. Speech “I Have a Dream.”
In his press release announcing the event, the Fortnite the team notes that players will not only be able to watch the 17-minute speech, but also get “museum-inspired points of interest” and play “collaborative game missions that complete with others” to honor dreams of the late freedom fighter and “unlocks a new DC 63” for the locker room. (You know, where are all the skins you’ve made Fortnitedeveloper, Epic Games, billions since its launch in 2017.) And as you listen to Marty delve into the need for racial equality and a multiracial coalition against injustice, players dressed as pink teddy bears, dogs Hot, astronauts, and cops can catch up on all the fun “Fortnite” dance moves that robbed black creatives.
There are several reasons why this year’s God-forsaken screenwriters deserve to be catapulted into the stratosphere, but this perverted cash-grabbing of an event in the name of one of the states ’leading freedom fighters and anti-capitalists United takes the cake.
Disrespect is heightened in his ad video, which featured an MLK performance that looks like Dr. Queerphobic charlatan. Umar Johnson and his equally problematic contemporary Charlamagne that God had a middle-aged man. Black-and-white photography and Black Marchers videos from all those years ago juxtapose cartoon players with camouflage facial paint and purple hair who position themselves as protesters in their own right. In the end, the ridiculous call to action hashtaggery that asks players to use “FNDC63” to share their experiences of the event seems pretty domestic compared.
Longtime players of Fortnite and other “free” Battle Royale games are getting used to the nonsense right now, while events like Travis Scott’s virtual concert and being able to play as Thanos suit the game’s extravagant sponge, using the MLK’s famous speech to make even more money. while feigning interest in real black wrestling is a level of shit while putting Harriet Tubman’s face on a $ 20 bill. These are people who actively opposed American capitalism and, for whatever reason, King’s ownership has allowed Dr. King’s likeness to be used in favor of corporate interest.
The integrationist greed and vulgarity of all this recalls one of the lasting mistakes of the era of civil rights, articulated by Dr. King himself: “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I think we should have, and I know that we will win. But I have come to believe that we are integrated into a burning house. I’m afraid America may lose the moral vision it may have had. “